American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

I suppose that this has been brought up before (and maybe I even missed whatever was done to possibly correct it), but I've always had a beef about objective hex flags! You know the ones I'm talking about: they change to be seen by everyone everywhere when the hex changes control. Quite the deal, and certainly not compatible with the era's battlefield intelligence environment. Yet I've never known a more ahistorical element present within the JTS/HPS system. And no doubt all of us at one time or the other have made use of that very thing to guarantee that we can instantly know if we need to send troops back to regain those victory points. And don't tell me that it's an easy thing to turn the thing off. That guarantees nothing!

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General Jos. C. Meyer, ACWGC
Union Army Chief of Staff
Commander, Army of the Shenandoah
Commander, Army of the Tennessee
(2011-2014 UA CoA/GinC)

Great point. I have had that happen to me before to. I see a flag suddenly change sides and I know something is up. I have been known to even camp next to an objective flag and "Wait" to take it until the end of the scenario to avoid "giving my position away."

Its one of the more "gamey" aspects of our... um, games.

I tried to think of a solution but all ideas I came up with had a counterpoint that made them unusable. Maybe someone will find one down the road.

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Gen. Blake Strickler
Confederate General-in-Chief
El Presidente 2010 - 2012

Gen. Meyer, sir <salute>

Joe, maybe an easy fix would be to make the flags a neutral icon so no one knows who owns it or remove the flags from the files so they don't appear? This would need to be agreed to by both parties as a house rule but would keep this less obvious to who holds the objective.

At least the Victory review screen would be the only way to spot it.

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Union War Dog!
MG. Derek Hampel
Cmdr. Second Div., XV Corps
Army of the Tennessee

Garrison the victory hex.

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Colonel DT Canavan

Mahone's Brigade
1/111
ANV

Let us cross the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.

I've thought that signal units (maybe balloons?) would be nice. I agree it's odd and I've relied on that change for alerts.

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Lt. Gen. Steve Sober, ACWGC
UA Cabinet Secretary
1/4/V AotP

Problem is an astute player could check the victory dialogue to see if the objective points changed. But it would still be an improvement because they might not know which victory hex changed.


Mike Mihalik
LtGen CSA

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MG Mike Mihalik
Forrest's Cavalry Corps
AoWest/CSA