On the 24th May 1864 Grant gifted Lee the kind of opportunity that rarely happens in a campaign: to wreck the other’s army.
After the bloodletting of May 5-12th, that cost Lee 22000 casualties and Grant 34000,'weakening both armies by 33% and 25% respectively, Grant again disengaged and moved South towards Richmond. Lee had followed and had been reinforced with 7 small Brigades from his capital.
Grant had inadvertentally straddled his large army across the North Anna river.
Lee saw the way to take advantage of his smaller numbers and punish the Federal II Corps, Grant’s best. He could throw 30000 men at the 24000 that were over the V in the river separating Grant’s two halves of his army. Hancock’s 24000 could not be reinforced, because of the V of the river, so he readied his assault.
On the afternoon of the 24th Lee fell violently sick with diarrhoea. He lay helplessly for hours while the opportunity to assault, before the Union commanders realised the sure situation were in.
The reason Lee’s defensive strike could not be undertaken was simple: the attrition of the last 19 days had robbed him of a subordinate able to manage it.
Time and opportunity passed. Grant and Hancock’s isolated Corps were extremely lucky.
We all know the loss of a quarter of Grant’s force would never have changed his resolve to “fight it all out, even if it takes all Summer”, but another battering would have diminished his potential to do so sooner.
5 player game
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Hey, who’s up for a five player game? We can do it through dicey and post the turn updates here.
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I’m in
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Sign me up. This is payback!
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in like flynn!
damn. i think i used that phrase last time too! getting to predictable…
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Oh great, you’re playing too! Can we be on the same team? Pretty please? :smile:
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One more to make 5. Then we need to figure out a way to make the teams.
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Come on guys, One more player.
Were talking one turn a week. If your worried about getting beat it’s not that bad, it only hurts for a little while.
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SUD… SUD… SUD…
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i’ll play
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What’s dicey?
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Dicey is a program on the internet that works out combat for axis and allies, Darth. You put in what units are fighting, and it will give you the result.
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Ok, this is the list of players:
dezrtfish
yanny
TG Moses IV
Cameron
mini_freekI think since yanny actualy has a position of authority here he should list the names in random order. Then we can play the countries in that order. Unless two of you would like to challenge the other three.
FYI, http://linksync.net/other/login.html
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Cool. Thanks.
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dezrtfish - Russia
yanny - USA
TG Moses IV - Japan
Cameron - UK
mini_freek - GermanyHow are we going to play this, Russia Restricted?
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Well seeing who I am playing I would prefer not restricted but with no bid I suppose that is fair. Any other “equalizers”?
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By the way, we prefer to be refered to as: “The Peoples Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” :razz:
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As soon as the rules are decided I will get it started. I will set it up to Email all of the partisipants the results of dicey. Then we should start a new thread and post the end of turn summeries there.
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“not restricted but with no bid I suppose that is fair.”
Wait, no RR or bidding. I think the Axis are in for a tough one :sad: Anyways, are we going to finish up the current tourney before starting this game? I need at least a week to take care of some “unfinished buisness.”
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ok, do you want to play 2nd or 3rd addition rules.
and TG Moses VI, do you want to play germany?
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I feel left out :sad:
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