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Scouts
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:06 pm
by BOSTON
Are scouts going to employed in GB? Either singular or a small group with calvary like mobility. Would it be historicly correct to use scouts in GB?
Hoistingman4
Re:Scouts
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:42 pm
by BOSTON
Did find one scout named Capt. Samual Johnson ANV.
Re:Scouts
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:53 pm
by Farm Boy
It would be historicly accurate and correct to have Scouts in GB... There is alot of documentation of scouts at GB.. Lots of scouting at night and such..
Farm Boy
Re:Scouts
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:06 am
by Farm Boy
Here is a Piece on Capt. Samual R. Johnston.. It even has some of his own reports and recounts in it...
It also tells of other scouts and who and how they were escorted..
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttou ... hnston.htm
Farm Boy
Re:Scouts
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:08 am
by BOSTON
That's the article where I got Johnsons' name. Depending how ya do a search other info pops up, with some realy good stories.
Re:Scouts
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:02 am
by Hancock the Superb
In my modded scenarios, I try to put 10 men of calvary as scouts, but they always seem to route too quickly. Enemy within firing range and boom - routing.
Re:Scouts
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:25 am
by BOSTON
Hancock the Superb wrote:
In my modded scenarios, I try to put 10 men of calvary as scouts, but they always seem to route too quickly. Enemy within firing range and boom - routing.
Were they elite? and did they route out of the game entirely or return? It would only go to figure that the scouts would try to avoid engagement. Did your scouts have an officer present? Calvary in TC2M seemed a bit skittish anyway after their numbers got reduced. Tell me about your experience with scouts, I'd like to hear it.
Hoistingman4
Re:Scouts
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:38 pm
by Gfran64
The small scouting parties are called Vedettes. Buford used them on the first day.
Greg
Re:Scouts
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:29 am
by BOSTON
Gfran64 wrote:
The small scouting parties are called Vedettes. Buford used them on the first day.
Greg
I see that
vedettes were used as
Listening Posts during GB often.
Hoistingman4