30th August: Rapunzel.
In 1862 in Northern Virginia, however, Major General John Pope was about to get his long awaited comeuppance. Lee was ready to take the offensive against the man he had come to despise, for his over confident bombast and disregard and disrespect of Virginia and the men he had come east to command.
Not heeding his subordinates’ requests for caution, Pope tried once again to break Jackson’s battered Corps(one Brigade did break, but others plugged the gap). On the union far left were only two brigades of Infantry and they were to be assailed by ten times their number. Three Southern Divisions, Hood’s, Kemper’s and Jones’ crashed onto the field, making short work of the outnumbered Northern troops.
Pope did well to recognise the danger when it appeared and sent four Brigades from three different Divisions to hold at Henry House Hill on his left. Remember this was ground fought over 13 months ago, by much the same men and officers, although most were now promoted.
This time around there would be no rout. Understandably, there was much jubilation on the side of the Southerners and a great loss of morale on the Northern side. This sense of martial superiority, begun last Summer at 1st Manassas, was to continue and come to a head on the field of Gettysburg another Summer from now.
Europe or pacific? which one takes longer?
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Hi!
I’m interested in either buying A&A europe or pacific. I’m proud owner of the original A&A boardgame. The point is that I love the game, but I don’t have the time to play it, since one game takes up to 15+ hours!!! (The shortest match I ever played was with my girlfriend- she lost after three hours ;-> )
So, which one is better and which one (europe or pacific) is shorter?
Regards,
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Pacific is a much shorter game once you have digested the many rule changes. The reason is that Japan accumulates victory points at the end of every turn, and once it reaches 21 the game is over, no matter how close the allies are to overwhelming Japan. In our experience, a game of AAP now lasts approximately 3.5 to 5 hours. The most time is taken up on the first round when Japan has so very many options. It can be very hard for the Japanese player to work out his whole strategy. A first time player can easily spend a half hour to 45 minutes, or more, working out Japan’s initial attacks. With the Europe game we had some that lasted upwards of seven hours, because the only way to win is the capture of a capitol.
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I find, on average, that pacific is longer than europe. Why? Well if japan is winning its a 6 or 7 turn game. But if Japan is losing the game can last 10 turns. Europe mostly is a 7 turn game no matter who wins.
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