From: Randall Case <tgunner@e...>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:20:29 -0600
Subject: Re: [FT][SG][DS] Canada, the US Civil War II, Anglo-Federal armor
> And yes, it would not be compared to pre-war formations. But I highly Not by > a long shot - there's no way they'll be able to afford it, and Gotta agree with you. After a couple of years without the full support of its manufacturing base (and a huge chunk of the US tax base), the US Army during the 2d Civil War would start looking VERY Twlight 2000ish!! In our campaign (yeah, I keep harping on it :), the Anglo-Canadian forces were the best as far as having mostly mechanized forces. Granted, they were small, BUT a single mech brigade from the UK had the fire power of a FULL American division. Most US divisions in our game were infantry based with a few tanks and other AFVs tagging along (generally one or two battalions per nine infantry battalions). During the Nashville Campaign, what saved the Southern Coalition was its committment of its precious armor reserves (a spoiling attack from western Tennessee into the Anglo-Federal support bases in Kentucky). That took me off guard, and forced me to pull precious armor regiments away from Nashville and