Civil War Scenario v1.1 Readme
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INTRODUCTION:
        This is a scenario of the Civil War of the United States.  President
Lincoln's objective was to secure and get back the entire Union, therefore,
he pretty much has to secure every Confederate city.  This is no easy task, 
but the Union has a much better transportation network and production value.
        To try to make this as realistic as possible, I used the USA2.MP that 
I acquired from one of the Civ2 sites.  After I unzipped the the file, I found
no mention of who wrote it so I am unable to give credit to him.  However, if
you did write the USA2 map, I congratulate you on a superb job.  

FILES:
        cvlwar2.scn -- I could not name the scenario civilwar because there is
                someone else out there with the scenario of the same name.
        cvlwar2.txt -- this is the opening text of the scenario.
        rules.txt  -- a modified RULES.TXT to make up for the largeness of the
                map.  The road value and movement values have changed.  Also,
                Wonder names have changed so that I could use some Wonders.
        readme.1st -- This is the file you are reading right now and must be
                in with the entire scenario.

CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1
        Only minor changes were made in this version.  First of all, the 
Confederate army stationed near DC was given a fortress.  This was because
when the Union attacked this large army and destroyed one unit, the entire
army was destroyed.  Also, Fort Sumner was changed to Fort Sumter, and there
were also some minor changes here and there.

MAIN POINTS:
        Some of the things I have put in here are to make the scenario as 
reaslistic as possible.  The Army of the Potomac, stationed outside of 
Washington DC, will be attacked immediately by the Confederates.  This is to
illustrate how the Army of the Potomac, at first, suffered severe losses.
Moreover, there is a large Union military gathering west of Fort Smith.  This
is the Union Army's western front, which at first was commanded by General
Grant and had termendous victories.  There is also a fleet of Union ships
south of New Orleans to simulate the Union invasion of New Orleans and cutting
off Louisiana and Texas from the Confederacy.  The Confederates also have
troops stationed right outside Fort Sumner (in this scenario, it is not in
Charleston bay because you can not have two cities adjacent to each other).
Also, there are two ironclads in the Chesapeake Bay to try to get the Monitor
v. Merrimack clash.  
        Foreign powers in this scenario are the French, English, and Mexicans.
The French are probably the weakest, but they have a couple of Galleons 
filled with military units to try to take over Mexico and establish a
Mexican Empire while the United States was too busy to uphold the Monroe 
Doctrine.  Great Britian also has some Laird Rams, which if they have a war
with the United States could devastate the Northern blockade of the South.
The English are also favorably disposed to the South but do not have
a very good disposition to the North.  Therefore, a good Jefferson Davis
would exploit this and get the United Kingdom to fight against the North.
The Mexicans are pretty much nothing in this scenario except to try to
get Napoleon Bonaparte III to get Maxmillian instated as Emperor of
Mexico.  
        Because victory for the Confederates would have meant being left 
alone, the Confederates only need to capture 2 cities to get a decisive
victory.  However, the Union needs to capture most of the Confederacy to
give them a decisive defeat.  
        American indians are also included in this scenario, but they are
the barbarians (sorry, but I could not make an entire American indian
civilization).  They have several horsemen etc around the plains and other
areas where they could possibly pose a threat to some of the frontier 
settlements of the US and Canada.
        Finally, roads only take 1/5 off your movement because the USA2
map is very big.  Ships can also travel a lot more (about 7 spaces more) to
make it a little more realistic.  Wonder names have also been changed.  For
example, Adam Smith's thing is now the NYSE, or JS Bach's Cathedral is now
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS:
        When I first wrote this scenario, I converted the ICONS.GIF file into
a bitmap and changed many of the Wonder stamps to make them more appropriate.
For example, I made Sun Tzu's Academy stamp into that of the logo of West
Point.  Moreover, I changed the Great Library scroll into the main building
of the Library of Congress.  However, when I converted it back, the palette
got screwed and it looked really bad, therefore, I am not including the
modified ICONS.GIF.  Perhaps when I get a better graphics program like
Corel of Adobe, I might be able to make the graphics better or include new
units etc.

Remember, you can't change anything without my permission, but you can 
distribute this freely anywhere you want if you do not charge money.  Do not
charge anyone for this and give it to your friends or upload it to parts of
the internet. 

Please send any and all comments to me.  You can reach me at:

                                                        caldwelj@vt.edu

                                                        Paul Caldwell (c)1996
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