Funny enough how that worked out huh? One day I will reread the whole quest and prolly go "wow did we really get this far and how this worked out?"
Just finished rereading through the quest yet again, and I still can't fathom how close we(I wasn't here yet) were to being overrun by McLaws.
I'm about to start rereading the quest cause this discussion makes me want to go back and see/read how far we've come.
Off the top of my head, something that immediately comes to mind is the Gatling Guns. Yates is an unabashed technophile, in noted contrast to the Union army at large, but the fact he immediately seized upon the value of these proto-machine guns is absolutely to his credit, and paid off in an incredibly major way. History will likely consider Hill's attempted flanking attack a fit of hubris that doomed the Confederates in North Carolina - but he honestly wasn't making that much larger a gamble than some other Southern generals got away with (although he really should've stalled until Beuragard arrived regardless, and was likely motivated by a desire to avenge his brutal defeat at Petersburg which doomed Richmond to fall ...). It was the Gatling Guns that blunted the momentum he needed to get away with the attack, and even just two (2) of them have continued to provide noticeable utility against the Confederates, who don't seem to have derived a counter strategy get. Later on we're likely to see sharpshooter crews hunting the gun crews, who have to get dangerously close to the front.
Christ, don't remind me. Although you've expressed disappointment at how the discussion isn't as fierce as before, I lose hair even thinking about how close some of those votes were and how nearly we flirted with disaster.
I'll say this, on that day I learned the importance of never second-guessing myself. I should've known putting Franklin in charge would cause issues, but people kept fretting about "risk" - ugh. That being said, I also learned to cover my damn flank, which rather paid off to the dismay of poor Hill, who might've thought he could pull off the same trick McLaws did.
This will definitely be something historians will talk about as one of the big "What-If's", if Yates hadn't been so eager and accepting of new technology and how that would have changed the future of the New Union Army.
Oh the beginning of the quest is hot garbage writing and grammar wise haha, I feel I have gotten a little better at least (Not a lot I know!) but woobooy the start was bad. I do want to go back and rewrite some of it later, just not anytime soon lol.Just finished rereading through the quest yet again, and I still can't fathom how close we(I wasn't here yet) were to being overrun by McLaws.
Many movies can't do stakes and suspense that well, and they usually have better proofreading!
Not dragging you down for it or anything, Skrevski, I know you do this for fun and I respect and love you for it. It's just amazing how good this quest is even without the good grammar and stuff. I'm usually turned away from stuff that has grammar issues, but this keeps me coming back over and over.
I have valiantly resisted the urge to ask you what exactly you think the word "smirked" means, I shall admit.
I shall now read for the grammar lol(goes off for my 4th reread)!
That's the first thing that came to my head as well his incredibly effective use of Gatling Guns as you said post-war there going to have a far different reputation then OTL because Yates used them effectively and having spoken to the Prussian that knowledge will spread. Honestly his successful use of them will very much accelerate the development and use of Machine guns across modern army's and most importantly I think doctrine involving the use of machine guns will be far more developed come WWI on how to use and counter them which would definitely have wide reaching effects.
Oh boy I don't wanna answer now!
I find that Grammarly is more useful as a guideline than as a grammar rulebook, due to how it can miss context at times.
Or maybe Cuba to kick the Spanish out, who knows?
Yeah.. sometimes I need to go off my instinct more, also doesn't help I suffer heavily from dyslexia. Why I just write for fun!I find that Grammarly is more useful as a guideline than as a grammar rulebook, due to how it can miss context at times.
Also, I'd like to point out that another point in favor of Sebastian, at least to later historians and such, is his very modern view, not just in technology and strategy but in race relations. I won't get too political, but unlike the vast majority of Americans at the time, Yates views black people as actual humans with the same human rights as white people.
Also, I do genuinely hope we get to see a sooner end to the war, just so that Yates can lead a hypothetical expedition into Mexico to kick the French out.
. Tho I'm more envisioning it as a tool for repositioning away from excessive smoke.
I feel sorry for the horses
No, American Wagenburgs.
More of an Agrippa to his Octavian, honestly. Although hopefully without also exchanging "being assassinated" for "overthrowing the republic".
This is a WAYYYYY too modern take on things and won't happen for a long time. Not even in Yate's wheelhouse at all.
You are talking about something that might take place after MAYBE WW1/Interwar but most likely WW2. As said this is VERY Modern thinking and I really don't think Yates would even think of this at all. So no, it won't be happening within the timeframe of the Civil War or after it.