For Southern Rights Gurr

[Ankios]

February 1862​

I won't talk a lot about this month because nothing major happened... Once more, battles were focused on Columbia and territories around it. We played a few times ping pong with Columbia, and the battle for South Carolina begins to look like a draw for now...

I sent two new regulars divisions in South Carolina, and one new Cavalry division plus one new artillery unit in Missouri, to begin to do what I told I would with the exchange we had with Vesimir. The first step is to strengthen Missouri

I'm not falling anywhere now. That is a huge improvement since last september when I was losing very fast in the east. Now I can begin to not think about "which State I must not lose" but "which State I must conquer/reconquer". And that alone is good

The situation in February 29th 1862​

 

[Ankios]

March 1862​

At last, on the 7th day of the month, I was able to deploy 11 divisions in Columbia, without any Yankee troops ready to attack ! My troops are now digging in to assure a defensive position and to secure definitely South Carolina.

Then by the 15th, the snow was gone on the entire battlefield. The Union troops are not protected by it anymore !

South Carolina secured, I tried to take back Fayetteville. By the 20th, I launched a massavie attack on the entire US front. On the 27th, fighting were still going on in Charlotte and Willmington when my troops entered Fayetteville. The decisive Yankee counter attack came from Raleigh. By the 29th my troops fell back into South Carolina and I ordered my entire front to stop the attack. This battle lasted ten days, but it was useless. We won the first days since we were even able to take Fayetteville for two days, and US troops in Charlotte even had to retreat !

One reality is also now very clear on the front. CSA troops are now much more experienced than Union troops. Dixie soldiers fought much more battles, and most of them in North and South Carolina have now 53 or 54 experience points ! When Union troops are around 25/30... Now, this assure me the capacity to win battles even when I still have more militias than regulars. If you add the growing number of regulars in my armies, you probably have all the reasons that made those to last months so much better for the Confederation. It was about time !

The situation in North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri by March 30th, 1862​

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

Virginia is asking to be freed!!!!

 

[Vesimir]

I can't believe how... realistic this is! I'm thinking about changing my decision to wait for 0.3 till playing again...

I'm not talking about taking troops from somewhere, I'm talking about making new troops. As I understand it, you're constantly producing troops. So I think, instead of reinforcing Carolina, you should put the either in Texas or Arkansas and attack the US where they don't expect it.

 

[Ankios]

About that, I just updated the topic about the next beta version (see my signature)

I must say I agree with you I'm enjoying this AAR much more than any other test I've done before (mostly because I never took the time to really play it, mostly rushing it to chech the features, until now...)

 

[Ankios]

April 1862​

In early April, I mostly used the time gained in February and March with the different victories to reorganize the front in North and South Carolina, espcially to be able to send some divisions in reinforcement in Tennessee. During the first days of the month, I decided that like now I am less pressured in the east, it was time to attack on the more vulnerable point of the Northern line : Tennessee and Kentucky. And since all my troops won a lot of fighting capacities (in early march I discovered the tech "mobility focus"), I am now in a position to try to move forward more than ever !

By the 15th, I sent my troops on Nashville. The Union broke and went back into Kentucky. And then on the 23rd, I deployed 3 divisions (2 infantery regulars, and 1 cavalry) in Nashville ! I'm now ready to move forward !

By the end of the month, the entire Tennessee is free, and my troops are ready to enter into Kentucky !

The situation by April 30th, 1862​

 

[Ankios]

May 1862​

During this month, I finished to reorganize my troops. But I also saw Union troops doing the same. To having their army mostly located on the eastern parts of North Carolina, I saw them moving to the western parts of the State. This little movement for at least a dozen divisions changed everything. First, now they have enough troops close to Tennessee and Kentucky to be able to attack in my back if I move too far in Indiana and Ohio. But in the same it means eastern North Carolina is less defended !

An other important point, for the first time since the beginning of the war, the Union tried no offensive at all during this month ! This clearly means a change in the balance of powers on the front. They are not able to move on like they did for so long. And of course they are very worried about a Confederation Victory in Kentucky and Indiana now.

So as soon as I finished moving my troops westward, I launched two attacks : one in North Carolina to take back Willmington, and one in Western Kentucky. Both armies should arrive in the first half of June. This is also the first time I was able to send troops so far in Yankee occupied territory. The next month might be decisive.

My attacks in late May 1862​

 

[Ankios]

June 1862​

Take your time... Take your time ! That's the lesson for this month...

Too much confident in the fact that the Union was now weaker than ever, I launched in may several attacks... How wrong was I !

The lack of attacks from an ennemy does not means he his about to be defeated... This means that the Union was able to use my attacks in Kentucky to send back into the south and the west of Tenessee ! It is now clear that they have far less troops in the east that they had before... But my series of initiatives in Kentucky, Missouri and Tenessee made them sending far more troops than I thought...

This might be a real opportunity in the east. I will see in early July what all this means for my potential movements toward the enemy.

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Now it's time for less game and some modding time !

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

It seems that the fronts are stalled...

 

[Ankios]

It seems that the fronts are stalled...

Indeed... Looks like a WWI game right now but at least I'm not losing anymore !

If it stays that way several months, I will probably put two months by post. I don't have lots of things to write every month right now

 

[Deus Eversor]

i would love to see independent country states in our times... as many countries in north as in south america

but i must admit, that union and confederacy where then like soviet union and germany later

 

[Ankios]

i would love to see independent country states in our times... as many countries in north as in south america

but i must admit, that union and confederacy where then like soviet union and germany later

Great ! The dumbest thing I heard this month !

What you just said is historically UNTRUE and a real INSULT to the millions of deaths the USSR and National Socialist Germany made in the entire world.

And it's not the place for that kind of debate so get your commies dumb things and not historical facts out of this thread thanks... If you want to create this kind of debate go into the appropriate thread.

I realize I'll probably be "moderated" for this answer but honestly I think communism should be treated like National Socialism. So get out of this thread.

 

[Deus Eversor]

i made the comparison on industrial basis not ideological, confederacy used slaves and union immense industry that allowed them just to throw manpower all over confederates.

and i did not say anything about communism being better than nazi
and about third party cassulties, maybe numbers aren't same but union wiped out weaker nations of native america as ussr tried to do(but thankfull failed), but I AM happy that Polands is still around

so maybe you could not jump into rage and berserk everyone with hate.

 

[Ankios]

i made the comparison on industrial basis not ideological, confederacy used slaves and union immense industry that allowed them just to throw manpower all over confederates.

and i did not say anything about communism being better than nazi
and about third party cassulties, maybe numbers aren't same but union wiped out weaker nations of native america as ussr tried to do(but thankfull failed), but I AM happy that Polands is still around

so maybe you could not jump into rage and berserk everyone with hate.

If this is what you meant, then please accept my sincere apologies... The way you wrote this clearly sounded like you meant something clearly else... Please be more specific when you try this kind of comparison.
o

 

[Deus Eversor]

I accept the appologise, and I'll try next time to be more specific.

 

[Ankios]

Huge bad news !!! I'm not sure exactly why is that and what I have done but right now I have a problem with all my saves. Every new save that I make is now corrupted...

I deactivated everything I did and tomorrow I will try to do new saves. Too late tonight I have to sleep but I will try it again tomorrow...

 

[unmerged(77708)]

Shame you'll have to restart!

Are there events to end the war in the case of key northern cities falling, or must the South conquer the north to end the war?

As for the communism debate, I am highly insulted as a Southerner to see the Confederacy compared to the national socialists. The former fought for an independent democratic state, while the latter forced europe to submit to its fascist political system at gunpoint.

And yes, communism is much the same- the Confederacy fought for loftier ideals than either.

 

[midget_roxx]

Yea bad luck on the restart. Bit of a problems with the mods

 

[Ankios]

Well I won't have to redo everything. Just right now before leaving to go to work I erased everything I did yesterday (as I had real difficulties yesterday to do what I wanted that is not a huge loss). It seems to work I'll retry that tonight.

If this doesn't work, I will just use the last back up I did for new versions. The last one has my saves until the end of March 1862. So everything is not lost

 

[Admiral Yamamot]

Wow.
Nice AAR, very suspensfull.