WIP: How Few Remain

[our_man]

Sarsstock did a pretty good job on filling in the overall plot. Basically the CS wins the Civil War as Lee's battle plans are never lost. The Confederates win an important engagement against the Union which is finally enough to sway England and France into supporting their bid for independence. The US accepts under duress.

Over the next twenty years both the CS and US continue to consolidate and expand their possessions in the east of America. The US is ruled by the Democrats, who prove unwilling to stand up to the the CS, even when the latter annex Cuba from Spain.

Twenty years later a Republican, James G. Blaine, is finally voted back into power in the US on a war platform. He handles the CS aggressively, and when it becomes known that the CS have purchased two Mexican provinces and are moving troops in to annex them he declares war.

[our_man]

Sarsstock, I'm using a map I found on Mercator's site - by Charles Magee I believe. I did not want to use a gigamap because I hope to make a quick, fun scenario that should only take a couple of evenings to play. As it is, each civilization I feel has enough cities and adequate space to manouevre:

No. of starting cities for each civ (could be revised yet):
United States - 32
Confederate States - 26
Mormom - 3
Mexico - 13
British - 15
Barbarian/Indian (representing cities in Sonora) - 4

Now, with regard to the visual aspect of the scenario. I am truly craptastic when it comes to drawing, so I have borrowed from several sources. Thanks for the offer Sarsstock, if you have an idea for an appropriate title.gif, I'd really like to see it!

Fairline, very astute of you to notice British officers parading around! My reason for using these was indeed lack of approriate unit graphics. In How Few Remain, the Confederates have changed their uniform from the gray of the Civil War to butternut. The most suitable graphics I could find for this were your British WW1 units. The Union have left their uniform more or less the same since the Civil War according to my understanding of the books.

With regard to specific graphic requests, I could use an image of Stonewall Jackson and George Custer (mine were taken from Microprose's Civil War scenario). The uniform on the Confederate Camel Rider also needs changing to match the uniform of the rest of the army. Can anyone also recommend a decent Ironclad graphic?

If anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks for all the help guys!

[JamesJKirk]

This all looks great, just one thing: It's Mormon, not mormom

Also, it's established in the book that the Confederates bought khaki (they call them butternut) uniforms from the British, but I'd expect them to be wearing cowboy hats rather than the caps the Brits wore going into WWI

[POTUS]

They should be wearing cowboy hats, although I guess that many of the troops might think that they are too "Mexican" and not wear them.

[Sarsstock]

Here's the titlescreen

Okay, I have a titlescreen ready that I hope you like, I'm not too familiar with this forum though so I'm not sure its going to upload right.

[POTUS]

Looks good.

[our_man]

OMG!

Sarsstock, I am truly in your debt. You weren't kidding when you said you were good at designing titles!

I am definitely going to use this. I only hope that my scenario can do your title screen justice!

JamesJKirk, thanks for the heads-up on the Mormon mis-spelling! I can't believe I didn't notice it.

[Sarsstock]

Hey man, I'm just proud to have been a part of a scenario thats been a long time comming. Can't wait to give it a play!!

[POTUS]

I just noticed, the industry looks a bit too 1940's. A smokestack would probably just be better.

[our_man]

Noted. I'll see if I can find anything more suitable.

[ravagon]

Looks very nice indeed.

It's been a while since I last read this but I can still remember a few of the twists. Ideas (for what they may be worth) ...

A mercenary-type apache scout/brave in CSA service.
Perhaps include a 'killable' respawning static barbarian unit that creates a CSA apache in a particular Sonoran city for a certain monetary cost every time?

Slaves - Unit transforms from a combat engineer type into a useless static of some sort when the British enter the war as Confederate allies to represent the emancipation the British demanded.

It might be nice to represent the trick Jeb played on the US garrison when he led a raid across the border but I can't quite think how this might be done...

I guess you already have St Louis heavily defended and some rather odd-looking contraptions travelling with a chap named Custer?

[fairline]

OK Our_Man, here's some American Civil War infantry and Indian wars US troops. The butternut uniform is based on the historical one worn by the CSA troops rather than the British khaki apparently described by Harry Turtledove; the latter was a lot lighter (sand coloured) in the late 19th Century. Let me know if you want some kitted out in this colour.

I'll have a go at the Custer and Jackson pics and also some CSA cavalry. Is the camel corps trooper supposed to be dressed like the infantry?

I couldn't decide which of the CSA flags looked OK BTW - take your pick

[POTUS]

The second flag looks better.

[Sarsstock]

I agree, the second flag looks much better. Also, lets see if we can find a good gatling gun unit, one of those odd contraptions right?

[Sarsstock]

I took a crack at re-touching the terrain hex with the coolant towers in them, I tried to give it a more 1880's feel by adding chimneys, however I'm not sure oil rigs existed in the 1880's so it still might be wrong.

Let me know what you think!