Hrm, forgot to finish that last post.
Kinda boring. We both picked options last turn. I went for a one-time tax and call for volunteers (with bonus). This leaves me more nuclear options later. My morale is a little low, sadly, but too be expected. The “blockade” raised the foreign intervention a bit, up to 47. Getting kinda scary.
CSL did money, money, people, people options. He’s going to need them.
Here’s what I’m looking at getting in troops ready for spring, from West to East.
Missouri: 1 division under Sumner to advance from Lexington to Springfield, MO. 1 division under Fremont/Humphreys in St Louis to defend.
Illinois: 2 divisions under Halleck/Grant to hold Joe Johnston there and threaten Island 10, with a crap-pile of gunboats and Ironclads that will spreadout to blockade the river.
Kentucky: 1 division under Lyon that will head toward Montogomery, KY, when the spring comes, for a probable linkup with Grant. 4 divisions under McClellan that will head toward Bowling Green (from the depot I’m building in Louisville right now). I expect a few of those divisions to peel off to Grant, I want Grant to get some good fights in so I can promote him to 3 stars to take over my most important Army.
West Virginia: A militia division going into Grafton. The 2 divisions I had there are going to Virginia.
Virginia: Looking at a putting together 9 divisions, in 3 corps, in the AoNVA. 4 are in Alexandria, 1 in Washington, 1 in Harrisburg, 2 are coming from WV, and 1 is being put together. This leaves a group in DC (“The DC Bangaz”), with a division of troops, lots of artillery and gatling guns, led by William H French, an artillery expert.
I’m taking out all the cavalry I can find to make a Cavalry Division under Kearny.
Then, my ace card is 2 strong divisions under Hooker and Meagher. Up the James? Reserves? Arrrrggh! So hard to decide!
Militia’s sprinkled all around. 2 more army commands will be ready in a month, along with more artillery to bolster Grant.
I’m running some cav up the James to sniff out what CSL’s up too. He’s got 4-5 divisions at Manassas, Jackson at Harper’s Ferry with a division (waaaayy out on its lonesome), and what looks like 2 divisions each under Johnston and and Johnston (hah!) in Kentucky.
So – now the question is, what will CSL do, and the question is – when does Winter end, and who moves first.