{"id":1025,"date":"2008-08-12T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/12\/some-things-we-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T19:02:24","slug":"some-things-we-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/12\/some-things-we-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things we need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From page 97 of the manual for <em>Gary Grigsby&#8217;s War Between the States<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Movement Tips: The good news is you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to count movement points, but you may be left wondering why you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make a move. Is it the or reaction phase? it winter? Does a leader with attached units have initiative? Are you moving from a friendly region another friendly region or an enemy region? What are leader specialty skill ratings and is one type of attached unit dragging entire force ability down? there a transportation line across river you are trying to cross? Has rail unit you are use for been demolished? The problem of movement becomes even more difficult when you get a combination of the above, such as reaction in winter with a force without leader initiative. It can be frustrating at times, but we think it effectively portrays reality of moving forces during American Civil War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know what else would be realistic? Being told why a move is invalid, so the general can do something about it. I doubt McClellan just stared at a torn up railway and wondered why his train wasn&#8217;t moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From page 97 of the manual for Gary Grigsby&#8217;s War Between the States. Movement Tips: The good news is you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to count movement points, but you may be left wondering why you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make a move. Is it the or reaction phase? it winter? Does a leader with attached units have initiative? Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}