#Scourge of war waterloo vs gettysburg how to

WeРІР‚в„ўre thinking to be really good at this game, you want to look at your generals and know who would be a better defender or attacker. And if somebody else was really aggressive and you put him on defend, chances are heРІР‚в„ўs still not going to stay there and heРІР‚в„ўll go out and attack anyway. We designed it to read in the personality characteristics of the various generals, from the OOB files, so that this will tend toРІР‚В¦if a given general was historically not very aggressive, thatРІР‚в„ўs the way we want him to act as sort of his base, around which behavior will oscillate with a degree of randomness. GO: How cohesive were these formations under fire?

#Scourge of war waterloo vs gettysburg how to

You had to know how to go from one formation to any other formation, and how to get there without ending up in a big rugby scrum in the middle of the field, which certainly happened a lot with green units. ThatРІР‚в„ўs how you win battles, being drilled to that level of being able to do it without thinking about it, because youРІР‚в„ўve got enough to do with loading and firing and filling in the gaps as casualties are taken. When the colonel says wheel left, the feet need to do it without thinking. It had to be learned to the point of being spinal reflex, because you had to do it on the battlefield when all hellРІР‚в„ўs breaking loose around you and artilleryРІР‚в„ўs going off and people are getting shot and thereРІР‚в„ўs noise and smoke and chaos. JW: The average infantry unit would drill, weather permitting, four hours a day, every day, because the drill was so complex. Did these guys back in the day really have all that stuff down pat? I mean, youРІР‚в„ўve got three hundred pages devoted exclusively to complex formation drilling. GO: I picked one up at First Manassas and thumbed through it. Although he was probably less polite than that. So I can understand where Jackson would be saying, on the march, you know, get down and walk. But they had the horses to spare where the Confederates didnРІР‚в„ўt. The Confederate artillery teams almost exclusively had four horse hitches, whereas the Union artillery had six, which gave them a little better mobility and speed over the ground. And the Confederates, being short of horses, had to take care of them to the greatest extent that they could. But on the march, they would walk, because it reduced the load on the horses. JW: Well, it would dependРІР‚В¦on the battlefield, riding on the limbers, they could get where they were going in a hurry.

So I was playing around with the artillery in Scourge of War, and I see three guys get up and sit on the limber as IРІР‚в„ўm moving it around, and was wondering if the Jackson story was apocryphal, or is that a level of detail youРІР‚в„ўre not as concerned with modeling here? GO: They ran a demonstration of artillery canon fire at Second Manassas, over by BrawnerРІР‚в„ўs Farm, and one of the things they talked about was that Jackson had a sort of philosophy where if he ever caught any of the guys riding on the limbers, heРІР‚в„ўd have them shot.