Ah, that delicious feeling of hair-shredding frustration
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:49 am
Just coming back to SoWG after not having enough time to really play games for a while. Pleased to find that it is still kicking my arse! I'm still trying to beat the McLaws scenario which is, for my money, the hardest of the stock scenarios. I was losing handsomely. The entire Federal army Zerged Kershaw and Semmes and the units in the Peach Orchard just stuck in place; I had to wipe out entire regiments before they broke. It became obvious after about half an hour (it took the Feds only about twenty minutes to shatter two entire brigades) that I wasn't winning, but I played it out for pride. I ended up with all of Barksdale's and most of Wofford's brigade still fighting, in good order, trying to extricate themselves from a developing salient in just south of the Peach Orchard (by this point the other half of the Union army had made its way over). Suddenly, all but one of my regiments broke and ran for the rear. Their morale was good, they were tired but not desperately so, and they were running! WTF? I was cussing up a blue streak, calling Norb and the team every name under the sun, impugning their parentage and the like when I happened to look more closely and noticed that all the units were out of ammunition.
Oh.
Which taught me two things:
1) the New Year might be a good time to take some anger management classes.
2) the great thing about this game is that when the completely unexpected and idiotic happens there is usually a plausible reason for it.
On the plus side, fought the Barksdale brigade scenario again and after having just squeaked out a major victory last time I was able to my up my score quite a bit: had all but one regiment intact, and captured a lot of artillery and even a supply wagon.
Can't wait to get involved in the multiplayer campaign. . .but I need to become a General first!
Oh.
Which taught me two things:
1) the New Year might be a good time to take some anger management classes.
2) the great thing about this game is that when the completely unexpected and idiotic happens there is usually a plausible reason for it.
On the plus side, fought the Barksdale brigade scenario again and after having just squeaked out a major victory last time I was able to my up my score quite a bit: had all but one regiment intact, and captured a lot of artillery and even a supply wagon.
Can't wait to get involved in the multiplayer campaign. . .but I need to become a General first!