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I will say to Sickles' credit, that some recent conjecture has given him props for halting Longstreet at Gettysburg and throwing a major wrench into Lee's plans.

@@chazcollins2164 That is true, Longstreet's attack would have looked different. For better or worse it's hard to say.

Thanks and welcome to the channel :)

I'm looking forward to Gettysburg! The very first American Civil War game I played was on the ZX Spectrum and called Yankee. It was a compilation of two games, Gettysburg and Chickamauga.

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays I still have the old sid meier's gettysburg which was a great game

Thanks! I see the Cummins artillery boys have been doing a good job :)

Oh that would be awesome! I wish I had the time for that :)

Brit, Englishman, Yorkshireman are all more than acceptable and certainly kinder than how most people refer to me ;) The American Civil War is just one of periods of history that just grabbed me. I don't know whether its the characters, the stories, the music, or maybe just that the TV show "North and South" with Patrick Swayze was one of my favourite series from years back, but I've always been fascinated by it.

Well the first word that springs to mind is "Findus" :D

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays Findus Crispy Cuirassiers?

Thanks!

No, just vanilla. I've heard that mod is well worth playing though.

@MarkGFLLetsPlays thank you for quick reply. Yes mod is like a whole new game!

@@kennethdavis3737 I might give it a playthrough in that case, perhaps with the Confederates when I finish this campaign. Are there any major differences in the mechanics I should be aware of?

@MarkGFLLetsPlays yes! But there is a mod guide and you can adjust ai settings

I certainly do, that would make my fuel imports so much more efficient :)

What can I say, I grew up watching Eastenders on the telly. Epicly timed show endings are all I know :D

Timing is everything, as they say :D

Done. And they are in the same division as their arch rivals, the Yorkshire Volunteers :)

Well spotted! I've changed that now. Guess which brigade got the better rifles ;)

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays let's go!!!!

I might pupper them later if manpower becomes an issue down the road. For now I'll enjoy those extra tasty resources and bonus factories. Once my colonial economy is improved a bit by the focuses, that might be a good time to let our little puppets free.

Thanks! :)

Lol!

Oh - was Denmark in the war too, or did they link up with Norway?

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays Denmark joined that weird Spanish Iberian alliance. 😊

From the ashes of the Old Republic, The Empire is born :D Although that does sound a little star-warsy :)

Do you mean at the game's end, or just the end of the Chancellorsville campaign? If the latter - then yes. This battle shows them separately, and the previous 3 days can be viewed here ruclips.net/video/B5Fh2P9cNEY/видео.html

I mean at the game's end, after all the battles have been fought. Just curious to see how your war compares to the real life numbers

@@crosbylemieux6687 I don't know actually, I hope so. It will be nice to see the overall campaign results.

If you win, you’ll get “total stats”; so yes. 👍🏻

@@jdcdl Thanks.

Just finished the video and man you really let them have it these two days ! Major victory! My brigade very bloodied once again but the enemy always gets the worst of it. Thanks for another good video

@@Bearbok From what others have said, even you push hard for those extra victory points in the first day the battlefield "resets" for the second day anway so you don't keep them. I haven't tried this myself though so can't verify.

In this sense it means the AI are set to historical settings, meaning we get to play out the war rather than seeing all sorts of non-historical options - like the UK going communist, USA going fascist, etc etc.

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays kkk, I though we are going historical direction, but more i watch, more seems off lol. bug thanks for awesome content!

Mad, isn't it? The whole point of skirmishers is that they are supposed to be faster and more flexible than formed infantry!

That’s what I thought, but apparently they are all track stars.

@@aarond95 😆

Thats true, he did! I shall have to go and take a look and see who I might end up at war with :D

The meer threat of facing the glorious French marines was enough to force their surrender :)

Marins de la Garde Imperiale are so feared because no one has seen them and lived to tell about it 🤣

Fuel I knida expected as I'm not importing much, but the manpower thing came as a bit of a surprise.

As we say around here whenever a crisis looms... it'll be reet ;)

All sorts of bad things happen with lack of spare manpower aside from lack of soldiers for suppression units in Spain. Regarding resistance suppression division design, when there are not a substantial number of obsolete tanks to add to suppression divisions, typically the best suppression division design in terms of Suppression per 100 soldiers is 16 cavalry battalions plus 1 MP support company. The empty 5th regiment on the right hand side of the division design is then available for a tank battalion or two once you do get enough obsolete tanks. The short term problem with a manpower shortage is reduced combat stats. For example, a division that is missing half of its manpower at best fights at half strength. A short term partial fix for divisions with a lot of tanks or artillery sometimes is to create a division design with 1 less infantry battalion. When a division is short by 15% or so on its manpower, switching that particular division to the more manpower-frugal design will then restore tank and artillery battalions to almost full strength. One longer term problem with a manpower shortage is the eventual loss of unit experience. If a division is missing half its manpower, the division will lose half of its experience when the missing manpower gets filled with rookie soldiers. Regarding scrapping warships in order to free some manpower, the warships to be scrapped should be in a seaport with a good supply connection to your capital. Above all, do not scuttle a ship while it is still at sea, or otherwise 95% of that ship's manpower will become shark food. In order to avoid potential user interface problems, the ships to be scrapped should be in their very own task force, which itself should be in its very own fleet. Otherwise it is too easy to unknowingly be in task force mode or fleet mode and scrap ships that you didn't intend to scrap. Worse yet is if some of the ships that were unintendedly scrapped were still at sea, meaning that 95% of their crews got lost to the sharks, and are therefore permanently unavailable to fill the manpower needs of your armies.

Indeed, the Italy declaration caught me off guard. I guess anything can happen in these non-historical games. Lucky I had that army in the Alps!

Glad you're enjoying them :)

I played quite a bit of Take Command: 2nd Manassass and while it looked a little rough it was easily one of the best wargames I have ever played. I think I tried palying Scourge of War but it always seemd to have performance issues. The first Civil War game I ever played was Yankee on the ZX Spectrum. Man that looks basic now looking back on it but at the time I remember thinking it was pretty damn clever!

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays ahhhh the ZX Spectrum, loved mine (Lords of Midnight!). Also played a Gettysburg game on my Atari ST. Great stuff.

Will do, and thanks :)

I'm playing the Steam version, I bought it years ago.

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays great game. New mods available

Quite true, at least as far as Europe goes. Apart from the occasional civil war and some *minor* skirmish in the Pyrenees ;)

Once we get through the mountains Spain should be much easier. Especially if we can encircle a large part of their army in the Pyrenees.

This is true. Might be one for the near future :)

It's odd I guess that the battlefield "resets" in some scenarios.

Lol! I didn't know about this, thanks!

Forewarned is fore-armed as they say. While it does feel a bit gamey it would have been daft of me to sit and take that attack like I didn't know it was coming, plus it could have been possible historically for the Union to have been prepared for it.

@@MarkGFLLetsPlays yep!

Thanks! 😻

I think so too. You see that a lot when reading through military histories, plus I remember working for a manager once who was in no way suited to managing people!

​@MarkGFLLetsPlays yeah I've heard your current boss is brutal

@@crosbylemieux6687 Please be careful what you say, he sometimes reads the comments...

Thanks! If I do a Rebel playthrough I might install the mod for that, change everything up a bit.

Although I can’t really get on board with the rebel army considering they were fighting to keep my ancestors enslaved., I might still watch because I enjoy the historical background you give before each battle.

@@aarond95 I know what you mean. I have a hard time also playing Hearts of Iron 4 as the Germans or Japanese.