Weak Forts in Key Southern Cities

[metabagel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Fisher

The strength of Fort Fisher led to its being called the Southern Gibraltar and the "Malakoff Tower of the South". The battle of Fort Fisher was the most decisive battle of the Civil War fought in North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ba ... ort_Fisher

The loss of Fort Fisher compromised the safety and usefulness of Wilmington, the Confederacy's last remaining sea port. The South was now cut off from global trade.

[battlevonwar]

Read a story of Shelby Foote's siege by Grant of the Tennessee Fortresses, Shiloh and eventually Vicksburg, breakout in Georgia........the logistics, issues, pain, toil, sweat and such that went into that really makes things not quite justified within the game when you can amphibiously land and crack the back of the CSA defenses without breaking a sweat. New Orleans was a relatively easy occupation but places like Charleston and what not were just just formidable but bastions of defense. The Ports in game are dinky ... You can defend New Orleans but the Union makes it useless, same with Charleston so why bother other than Objective City and they will require 3 Divisions each . . . That along with Wilmington ... 9 Divisions on a Coastline the South can't afford and fight elsewhere. Along with 3 or 4 Divisions around Richmond. The objective cities should not be coastline cities at all with the vulnerability of them in this game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Fisher

The strength of Fort Fisher led to its being called the Southern Gibraltar and the "Malakoff Tower of the South". The battle of Fort Fisher was the most decisive battle of the Civil War fought in North Carolina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ba ... ort_Fisher

The loss of Fort Fisher compromised the safety and usefulness of Wilmington, the Confederacy's last remaining sea port. The South was now cut off from global trade.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Alot of good comments here. Build the 3 Engineers, and start construction of real defenses. Think you can entrench x4. Guard what you think is important. The Union can also be destroyed on a beach head too. BattleVonWar slaughtered my Pensacola task force. New Orleans isn't exactly an easy take. It got Farragut killed in real life, ask his family.

Have you visited any forts from the 1800's? They weren't exactly Castle Wolfenstein. Many are just a pile of log sticks into "a Fort" then now sells Fudge to vacationers. They were rather small, placed on some elevation. For game purposes, try something tricky, like loading up and guessing where Union will land. Build Engineer fortresses. If you're lazy, just rail down Lee plus couple of Corps.