-- TURN 14 - 40,000 casualties for Union in single turn, Union morale plummets to 69 --
Second Fredricksburg!!
Fellow countrymen! There couldn't have been a better day for our cause!!!
Those people have attacked our impenetrable fortifications in Fredericksburg for the second time, and this time their losses are completely off the scale: 22,000 dead + 6,000 prisoners, to just 7,500 of our own!
Jackson, Early and D.H.Hill can be promoted
8 National Morale won!!
Celebrating confederate soldiers almost kill Lee.
Here the situation in the East.
Shall we counterattack before the Winter comes, to teach those people a lesson?
On the Blobert front, Cleburne has taken command over a newly formed Corps before Atlanta, but it's still very weak. worse, the AI managed to trap some 3,500 of his forces in Rome.This is not looking so good.
Hold out or retreat (already) to Atlanta?
In Meridian, Hardee and Breckinridge unite their Corps and thoroughly defeat an army of the Union.
+3 National Morale
Grant and Sherman unite at Jackson and defeat Johnston, who I wanted to move in the direction of Vicksburg ..
He retreats, and is now unable to help the Vicksburg Garrison, who looks in danger again.
A loss of Vicksburg would however not weigh so much as it would have at the beginning, because it already cost the Union dearly.
The situation int the West.
Vicksburg is cut off again, this time by the main force of Grant and Sherman (50,000)
Johnston is beaten back and must find a place to reorganize. Luckily for us, one of Gardners brigades has taken over Natchez by a surprise attack, and we capture another supply unit and a transport ship. West Baton Rouge is also ours.
Breckinridge and Hardee win a battle for Meridian, and look like they can hold out.
Things also look bright around the Alabama river, where Polk, Ewell and Wharton defeat union forces in the area and re-establish control over the eastern parts of our supply chain.
In Mobile Bay, our gallant CSS "Erika Falx" is preventing a quick Union outbreak into Alabama, or so I think (if I put a warship on offensive, this should mean riverine transport cannot pass through, right??)
In Ft. Smith, Holmes and Price forces withstand yet another attack (they received the hold at all cost order, and will either be victorious or die as heroes). It looks like they could hold out.
In Texas our army moves sluggishly and has achieved nothing so far. If things don't improve it may be time for some more command changes.
The objectives screen: 40,000 casualties for the Union, in just one turn!
Lincoln must be absolutely mad. How long can he let them attack again and again after such losses?