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Looking excellent as usual Wyrmshadow :thumbsup:

@BadKharma - I've been toying with an alternate time line which would require a global map. Lee wins a Pyrrhic victory at Gettysburg forcing a negotiated truce. Great Power politics continue apace in Europe while tension and competition seethe in North America. The British and French near-clash at the headwaters of the Nile at Fashoda turns into the battle which triggers WW1 in 1898 (which could also lend itself to a Steampunk scenario) ... BTW my main critique of the 191 time line is that neither side would have the manpower to build and man a trench-line across the new (or, for that matter, old) Mason-Dixon line. Ironically IMHO warfare in North America would have been much more like the Franco-Prussian mobile warfare that the European armies were actually trained to fight in 1914 but couldn't due to sheer troop density ... more details maybe to follow someday ... ;)

Best,

Oz
 
I looked at a world map however the space for dividing the US just was not available in my opinion. As far as creating a trenchline covering the mason dixon line you are correct. However the whole line was never covered relying upon natural barriers like the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. That is where finding a map to use is difficult since the US needs to be large enough to make those rivers as coastal tiles funneling and restricting movement to key areas.
 
Ozymandias said:
BTW my main critique of the 191 time line is that neither side would have the manpower to build and man a trench-line across the new (or, for that matter, old) Mason-Dixon line. Ironically IMHO warfare in North America would have been much more like the Franco-Prussian mobile warfare that the European armies were actually trained to fight in 1914 but couldn't due to sheer troop density ...
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Interesting point. Although I would assume that the trenched front would have been confined to Maryland and parts of Pennsylvania.
In the Appalachians (i.e. West Virginia), the front would have resembled the Isonzo front (heavily fortified but not requiring much manpower), whereas the Ohio river would lend itself as a formidable moat.
Until the advent of tanks/"barrels", such frontlines would have been very static.
 
TopGun said:
[...] whereas the Ohio river would lend itself as a formidable moat. Until the advent of tanks/"barrels", such frontlines would have been very static.
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I think that (with some greater degree of presumed Southern industrialization) there would have been major river campaigns, especially at attempted invasion points. Also, once Krupp started making 200+ mm guns, secretive pre-positioning of those would be used in attempts at river cossings - although, again, as fully manning everywhere would be impossible, mobile reserves with picket lines and the occasional serious fortification would probably be the rule of the day, with cross-river attacks probably bypassing these Verduns.

... And the first amphibious tanks might have made their appearance before 1920 ...

Best,

Oz
 
I figured this would be the place to ask-are the Confederate automatic rifles supposed to resemble BARs, some version of Enfields, or something else?
And for the record my votes for a Turtledove scenario in the future. (might try it myself when the units come out and if I ever get the hang of modding)
 
Loki130 said:
I figured this would be the place to ask-are the Confederate automatic rifles supposed to resemble BARs, some version of Enfields, or something else?
And for the record my votes for a Turtledove scenario in the future. (might try it myself when the units come out and if I ever get the hang of modding)
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HT isn't consistant with his descriptions of it, so it's anyone's guess.
 
"Feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?"
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I've been working.
If you haven't noticed.. and 95% of you don't... I've done a few infantry units in the past couple of days.
 
Spoiler :
Poser is for . .. .. .. .. .. .. .

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Nope, he found some other way to produce human units in his usual high quality.
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Let's see what wyrm's nemises has to say now. You know who I'm talking about.
 
19Delta said:
Let's see what wyrm's nemises has to say now. You know who I'm talking about.
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Hardly a nemisis. More like a herpes infection. You can only treat the symptoms, but it always comes back.
 
I've made a seperate thread for the infantry.
Here
 
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That's right. I'm the :king:
 
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