tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post3939691723338436988..comments2024-03-28T12:19:54.572+00:00Comments on Wargaming Miscellany: The March To The Sea: An American Civil War Matrix Game – The Actual EventsRobert (Bob) Corderyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109130990434792266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post-24884809074065859922013-11-06T06:49:02.151+00:002013-11-06T06:49:02.151+00:00Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
Looking back at it now, I...Archduke Piccolo (Ion),<br /><br />Looking back at it now, I think that the players who presented arguments for both Bedford Forrest and Morgan were possibly concentrating too much on being being '<i>Southern Gentlemen/Cavaliers</i>' and not enough on co-ordinating their efforts with Johnston. (I did allow players to contact each other if they wanted to - as long as I was told the basics of what had been discussed - but all did.)<br /><br />I think that the Northern players took a 'slow but steady' approach to the campaign, and may have missed achieving a really decisive victory as a result.<br /><br />I would have loved to have fought out the battles on the tabletop rather than having to rely upon SCRUD (which is a very good system, by the way!), but at the time I did not have the tools to do so. Now that I have my various 'fast-play' rules at my disposal and some suitable figures and terrain, anything is possible!<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />BobRobert (Bob) Corderyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13109130990434792266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6933470253715910366.post-29616193060338848972013-11-03T12:23:51.254+00:002013-11-03T12:23:51.254+00:00A very readable and interesting account. At the t...A very readable and interesting account. At the time I thought the Confederates central position at Atlanta offered them a chance to strike at separated portions of the Union army, it seemed to me that an opportunity had been presented to the southerners that never quite materialised in the actual campaign.<br /><br />There were a couple of occasions in which Johnston contemplated a strike against enemy forces that had become widely enough separated for such an action to be contemplated (one of them at Cassville, I think), but was stymied by his subordinates - Hood in particular. But this was not quite the same is strikes from a genuinely central position.<br /><br />I guess the problem so late in the war was that attack was very so very difficult anyway in the face of the fire power possessed by experienced troops. Hood's counter-attacks around Atlanta might have succeeded in Napoleonic times, but by 1864, against rifle-armed troops, it was too late. <br /><br />When in 1865 Wilson set out upon his raid with some 12-13,000 troops nearly all equipped with repeating carbines, not even Bedford Forrest (outnumbered 5 to 1) could do much about it.<br /><br />It would have been intriguing too if the battles could have been fought on the table-top, but that sort of thing isn't always possible...<br />Cheers,<br />Ion<br /><br />Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.com