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Re: 3rd Arkansas Infantry "Elite"

Alan,

Like you, I played many of the Avalon Hill and Strategic Simulation board games. I still play some of the computer versions of these games. I agree that you can learn a great deal from a well-done, professionally designed game about the terrain on a battlefield, the road network, the arrival of troops, etc.

The purpose of my question and specifically why I asked it here, was I was confused as to why a game designer might rate the fighting capabilities of the 3rd Arkansas at Chickamauga as average. I was hoping an Arkansas expert might tell me something I didn't know, that might have affected their performance post-Gettysburg or that, as many have stated, the designer was wrong and there was no reason to consider them other than as a veteran or elite unit. I didn't know if conscripts from Virginia or some other unit had been merged with the 3rd Arkansas or any number of other things that might have detracted from the fighting qualities of the "3rd".

I have always and still do hold the 3rd Arkansas in the highest regard and consider this unit an elite unit, comparable to the best units in the Army of Northern Virginia.

I was rather taken aback by a somewhat aggressive response and a less than flattering remark made regarding wargamers. I have the greatest respect for "real" military. I grew up on military bases as the son of a career NCO. Honestly, I had always believed I would serve my time in the military, but as a young man coming of age in the mid-seventies, just at the end of the Vietnam war, I "wimped out". I've always regretted not serving, but for those who remember the post-Vietnam, pre-Reagan era, maybe my decision was understandable.

Well there you are. Just a simple question that came from the unusual source of a wargame unit rating and my curiosity as to whether or not I had missed something in my limited study of the 3rd Arkansas. I'm satisfied that the game designer was in error.

Jim

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