Old Heads: Hurr Durr no one cares about safety on the railroad anymore!

Also Old Heads: I ain't gettin' no fuckin' vaccine!

CSA Antietam is such fun, gratifying slaughter. At least up at the Dunker Church. When the party moves down to the Stone Bridge, I always seem to take more losses than I want to.

Saunders Farm is the most fun I've had being absolutely frustrated at a game. I've never managed better than 2.5:1 on Saunders Farm while playing it straight (i.e., not rushing my units to the spawn points), which is maddening because it feels like it should be an opportunity to wreck the union. It's so easy to roll up the Union right, even accounting for the reinforcements they get from the northwest corner of the map. But I never seem to manage pushing the union left out of those woods east of the VP location, so that's where the encirclement winds up taking place with the union artillery blasting away at my troops while their infantry routs all over.

I'd be curious what SC's answer is as well, but recently I find myself leaning toward the speed perk. My thinking is that in defensive battles, I'm nearly always going to take a line that offers excellent cover, so the cover perk is of somewhat limited utility.

However, regardless of whether I'm fighting an offensive battle or going over to the counterattack in a defensive battle, I want my units through any exposed positions and in the spot that I want them ASAP.

Dumb question: I've always assumed that the three-star speed/cover bonus only applies to units within the general's command radius. Is that right or does the general's entire corps get that bonus?

Playing fetch with my Saint is hilarious. It's like watching a defensive lineman chase down a fumble.

Also from West Virginia. I spent the night in Jackson last summer taking the kids on a road trip vacation, and all I could think about was how fucking true we were being all the times we said "Thank God for Mississippi" growing up.

I wanna see some hero engineer disqualify it from being in the lead for not having a shorter.

Yeah. I'm sure there are some TMs that get off on the petty power they can wield and like writing guys up, but most that I've known are decent folks just trying to do the job.

Yeah. I'd say Canadian hands are overrepresented on railroading social media relative to how much of the railroad workforce they make up.

Dumb question: If a business calls itself a waschsalon, does that mean a self-service laundromat?

Take the S3 train to Dachau, then the 726 bus to the camp. The self guided audio tour is comprehensive but there are also several English tours that depart throughout the day.

So Ford wound giving us a 50% discount on the quoted repair, but they wouldn’t cover it. I’ll probably reach out to the class action counsel soon.

The curse of rising expectations is a bitch.

Oof. Of all the battles to have to replay if you were happy with the result...

You're right that it's no longer BNSF's main transcon route, which instead runs from Belen (Albuquerque) to Clovis, then up to Amarillo and from there through western Oklahoma to KC.

The La Junta sub is the Amtrak route for passenger rail service for their Chicago-to-LA route. Amtrak runs on freight railroads here as opposed to owning their own track (except for the northeast).

On the freight side, I figure it's mainly agriculture and industrial products carload traffic. Not a super heavy volume sub.

If you've got a car, drive down to the Glorieta Pass. It's real pretty and a civil war battlefield to boot.

One time I was doing this and this trainmaster was deceiving me. She cut my security, so I turned to her and said don't switch these cars on the guy in shades. Then I said don't banner test on the guy in shades, oh no. I couldn't believe it because she had it made with the guy in shades.

The only times I recall ever seeing them in vanilla is in the opening engagement of Chickamauga as the union and maaaybe Fort Stevens. In both cases, the allied troops had them.

Appreciate your concern and all but there were no shareholders in a position to be effected by the hazard, so it’s not a big deal.