[FT][SG][DS] Canada, the US Civil War II, Anglo-Federal armor

1 posts ยท Dec 13 1998

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