Civil War Mission 3 - Is is possible without Southern Rep?

[kverdon]

Mission 3 seems impossible without enough Southern Rep to buy the materials to make steel and/or gunpowder and most especially, cotton. Is there a way around this? Buying them on the commodities market seems prohibitively expensive. I really hope that this is not the case as I find that supporting the Union Troops with material purchased from the South is a ludicrous idea. It follows on from the idea that you need Cotton to make Union Uniforms.

FYI... Union Uniforms were made of Wool because they could not get cotton.

Edit: Ok, it looks like you get some access to materials after you capture Jefferson City. Still have an issue with Union Cotton Uniforms though.

[kverdon]

After Playing through Mission 3 I am convinced that the Civil War DLC is a not a very good representation of the US Civl War. It is a very thin overlay. For the “Battles”, It would have made way, way, way, way (xE23) more sense for you to deliver troops and mortars and gunpowder to a Union Camp and build stockpiles of each instead of watching a cluster of trains deliver stuff willy nilly and downright stupidly to the battle field. Unless you like a cluster of a clickfest avoid this DLC at all costs. You can just send a cluster of trains to Springfield and have them not unload and then pause and issue a bunch of unload orders but that gets back to the click fest.

A much better approach would have been to have you deliver to a Union Camp with the goal of getting X or X+ supplies by a given date. The South would also be supplying their Springfield camp so you would have to race to out deliver them. When the appointed date appears the two sides determine the outcome by what was delivered. The more you outnumber the other sides, the greater chance of Victory.

Please stick to what you are good at. There is so much content on the Transcontinetal Railways, who not explore that instead?

[Tactical Wargamer (Richard)]

Is there a free map with AI's that you can play with in the CW DLC?