Right, I just mean how fast the Union army marches vs how fast the ANV marches; the ANV doesn't have to march faster (even though that probably possible), since they got a head start and this TL eases the burden on the individual roads.
Yeah Saph look as others have said elsewhere. Snapping your fingers and saying just because is not an actual answer so I need something beyond you and dandan just saying "just because". Also I already did show them moving to fast partly beingthat their being lead in new formations with new commanders. Not that you'll accept that you both are rather fixated at stacking the deck as much as possible. Alright Dandan if the deck is so utterly stacked as you made it and you hobnob the union so that everything that can go wrong does, yes the sainted Lee and the gallant johny rebs can have their successful campaign. ALl itt took was having Meade act completely out off character and ignoring the fact that the AONV was undergoing a reorganization and then also suddenly changing the marching speeds beyond believable. Finally suggesting that union cavalry that had just fought Brandy station was somehow completely incapable.Already answered.
Then show the time when Lee's forces in this scenario move "too fast". Use numbers rather than just saying something's impossible.
At what point are they moving too fast, how fast and how far?Yeah Saph look as others have said elsewhere. Snapping your fingers and saying just because is not an actual answer so I need something beyond you and dandan just saying "just because". Also I already did show them moving to fast partly beingthat their being lead in new formations with new commanders.
Something worth thinking about is that a cannonball or cannister stand scoring a single hit (on average) is about as effective as two companies of Union troops firing. Though the stats from Griffith suggest that 10% of casualties inflicted by the Union are due to artillery and 20% for the Confederacy.It's interesting; Paddy Griffith relates that some gunners actually preferred to fire solid shot at close range, since the tremendous crash of a solid iron ball would terrify the approaching infantry.
It'd be interesting to see data on ammunition use by the artillery; TTL, they might be running low after breaking up Meade's mass assault on July 2.
Yes, the morale impact of a pound of gunpowder being expended by a cannon is greater than that of the same pound being used by riflemen - there's little reason to question that.I definitely think raw casualties are only part of the equation. Sure, their fire might only kill 10% of them, but if it makes their formation come apart, if it makes the men stall as they're about to carry the position at the points of their bayonets, and the defenders can keep pouring musket volleys into them as they turn back, that's very much the artillery's work.
Yes and they need those wagons being their on the offensive in enemy territory.I'll put this in syllogism form.
Major Premise: Armies march faster when there are fewer men and wagons on each road
Minor Premise: Ewell's corps will have fewer men and wagons congesting the road to Chambersburg (then Carlisle, then Harrisburg)
Conclusion: Ewell's corps will get to Harrisburg faster than OTL
Can you please point to the handwave for me?