Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Yea, hooked. Though my next attempt was as feeble as ever.
I really think there is something I fundamentally don't understand about cav.
I lose hundreds and hundreds of men that get captured again and again. I've tried standing my ground, charging right back at them and anything in between and I end up seeing that damned white flag all the time. I tried charging another regiment into the fray but they generally just stand there and don't get involved. I don't even know what I did different that time. I'm just bleeding men it seems. Doesn't seem to matter much if I use veterans or not. They just get captured and I'm out yet more men.
The key seems to be to take them on before they get close but that's hard when all my men just fold.
Just as an example: everything was going decently. The rebs launch the second attack and I generally hold it an move Custer in to support. After losing 67 men he gets captured. How do I avoid that?
I really think there is something I fundamentally don't understand about cav.
I lose hundreds and hundreds of men that get captured again and again. I've tried standing my ground, charging right back at them and anything in between and I end up seeing that damned white flag all the time. I tried charging another regiment into the fray but they generally just stand there and don't get involved. I don't even know what I did different that time. I'm just bleeding men it seems. Doesn't seem to matter much if I use veterans or not. They just get captured and I'm out yet more men.
The key seems to be to take them on before they get close but that's hard when all my men just fold.
Just as an example: everything was going decently. The rebs launch the second attack and I generally hold it an move Custer in to support. After losing 67 men he gets captured. How do I avoid that?
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
What you don't realize is that the nefarious designer of this scenario built in a random modifier in the code which only allows you to come close to a MV every 7 or 8 tries. Just enough to keep you playing but never enough to get you over the hump.
There's only one man that's ever beaten it. His name is JC Edwards. Some say he doesn't really exist, that he's only an urban legend, but I know differently. Sometimes, late at night, he surfaces to post his monumental scores and laugh at us poor mortal's feeble attempts at victory, only to fade back into the shadows once again.
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There's only one man that's ever beaten it. His name is JC Edwards. Some say he doesn't really exist, that he's only an urban legend, but I know differently. Sometimes, late at night, he surfaces to post his monumental scores and laugh at us poor mortal's feeble attempts at victory, only to fade back into the shadows once again.
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Well, I can't comment on the Sarge lore, but the "variants" part is not the scheme here. I just made it tough to make folks EARN this Yank scenario win. And, I really didn't have to work that hard at making it tough since the Rebs outnumbered the Yanks nearly 2 to 1. I could have made it more historical and then easy to win by making the Reb Cavalry totally Exhausted (many days of hard riding preceded this battle), but what fun would that be.
So, beat 'em, Sarge and I did, and we're Rebs. :woohoo:
So, beat 'em, Sarge and I did, and we're Rebs. :woohoo:
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
My goodness - really?
Wolverines?!
............ more like SARDINES lead by a blond pretty boy!
The Mad One
Wolverines?!
............ more like SARDINES lead by a blond pretty boy!
The Mad One
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Pfffft - the only thing you've beat is about half a dozen eggs!So, beat 'em, Sarge and I did, and we're Rebs. :woohoo:
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
:laugh:My goodness - really?
Wolverines?!
............ more like SARDINES lead by a blond pretty boy!
The Mad One
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Them's Fightin' Words!!!Pfffft - the only thing you've beat is about half a dozen eggs!So, beat 'em, Sarge and I did, and we're Rebs. :woohoo:
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
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Haven't run this scenario in quite some time - but I'll have a look later after I get home from work and see if I can remember what I did. My HS at last play was 3800+ .
Will let you know.
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Haven't run this scenario in quite some time - but I'll have a look later after I get home from work and see if I can remember what I did. My HS at last play was 3800+ .
Will let you know.
The Mad One
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Just checking back it to say that I'm still in the process of cracking this one.
Thank you all for your replies and indeed the banter that keeps up my spirits.
To distract myself I've played some Antietam scenarios in between and it's nice to be back commanding infantry. I think the lesson for me to learn is that were I alive back then I should be in the infantry. I grasp that. It makes sense. Cavalry, not so much.
But then, I've always been an infantry guy, both when I was in the army and in most games I've played, from the first Rome Total War over Empire and Nappy and now this.
Edit: oh god. 2931 points. So close! At least I got plenty of saves in that fight so I can go back to my rather fortuitous position around the 8 min mark and go from there.
Thank you all for your replies and indeed the banter that keeps up my spirits.
To distract myself I've played some Antietam scenarios in between and it's nice to be back commanding infantry. I think the lesson for me to learn is that were I alive back then I should be in the infantry. I grasp that. It makes sense. Cavalry, not so much.
But then, I've always been an infantry guy, both when I was in the army and in most games I've played, from the first Rome Total War over Empire and Nappy and now this.
Edit: oh god. 2931 points. So close! At least I got plenty of saves in that fight so I can go back to my rather fortuitous position around the 8 min mark and go from there.
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Re: Some questions and Come on you Wolverines cavalry scenario
Did it!
Got 3252 on this run. It was a super close run thing and I balk at the casualties. But I did it!
I'm not entirely sure what I did differently but I managed to avoid getting any units captured and I generally won the cavalry engagements and made liberal use of canister which saw many a rebel scamper to the rear.
Edit: and again, thank you to all of your for the help and encouragement. This is a really nice community!
Got 3252 on this run. It was a super close run thing and I balk at the casualties. But I did it!
I'm not entirely sure what I did differently but I managed to avoid getting any units captured and I generally won the cavalry engagements and made liberal use of canister which saw many a rebel scamper to the rear.
Edit: and again, thank you to all of your for the help and encouragement. This is a really nice community!
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