Gen Mihalik,
You pointed out some other things I hadn't even considered that are wrong with this option. Thru
100 games this was the first time I noticed a wagon capturing (uncrewed and already captured guns) and firing 2 batteries, just too many things wrong with this option for now. Historically, how many times have
captured guns been recrewed by the opposing side, a handful, probably the more important aspect of the rule is occuppying the guns for VP's, as we Rebs took 40 guns at Gettysburg but were able to retrieve none of these guns from the battlefield, so I can see the VP apsect of the option, then you could bring in being able to move captured guns, etc, etc. For now I will go without the artillery capture rule.
These are my favorite wargames, to me the best out there, and the Civil War my favorite era. Any complaint or gripe is to make them more historical but also understand there has to be a balance so they are also fun and playable. Any option will have it's positives and negatives.
I have pics and
a genealogy of 4 of my direct descendants that served with Texas, and with a help of a fellow member I now have actual muster rolls, requisitions for forage, notice of wounding and other actual documents from footnote.com and the national archives. I only mention this as I have always had the genealogy and oral history from grandparents and grandaunts and uncles now gone, but is neat to have actual documents.
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http://civilwarvignettes.com, I got many documents from footnote.com, and awaiting any documents from the national archive, they charge you $25 per search per person, but if nothing is found they charge you nothing. I have found complete histories on 2 that served and survived the war but am trying to find out about 2 of the 4 brothers that died in 1862, but so far have found
nothing but dates and locations of their deaths, no muster or unit assignments. All I had before was a genealogy book written by a relative many years ago and some notes from a reenactment site in Houston, this has been a recent and interesting endeavor, so hope this helps anyone else in search of records and documents of service.