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What can I do to help?
We're happy you asked! There are loads and loads of stuff that can be added to this wiki that will be of help to players of the game, but it won't add itself.
- First of all, you'll need to register/log in in order to be able to adit any pages and/or upload anything.
- Then make sure to familiarize yourself with the Policies and guidelines
- Though you can learn a lot by reading the source text of articles already in place, keep in mind that the edit-pages have a link to Wikpedia's overview of how to edit wiki-pages.
OK, a bit more specific than that?
- You can edit any article you think needs improvement.
- You can start new articles if you find a topic missing.
- You can upload images from the game (or elsewhere) that can illustrate articles or be of other use to the wiki, (preferably using them in an article)
- Do you have a program or mod that AACW'ers can use? Feel free to upload it here. Unless it's excessively large, AACWWiki has room for it. Feel even freer to make/update an article to describe it.
- If you aren't sure about the changes you want to make, all articles have a "talk-page" that you can use to discuss the article, including any changes you want to make.
Keep in mind, that it is better to edit one time too often than the opposite. Changes can spur others to improve them further, and changes can even be undone should they prove to be wrong. However, if you keep your thoughts to yourself, no-one else will benefit from them!
Uhm, even more specific?
- Take a look at Special:Wantedpages, which contains a list of words and terms that have been made into wiki links, without articles to link to. I.e. editors have indicated that it would be a nice article to have. Feel free to take any of the suggestions and start articles for them.
- Take a look at articles listed in Category:TODO (or rather, in its sub-categories). Those articles have been placed in those categories due to specific concerns. Feel free to address those concerns, whatever they may be.
Really, really specific?
Some of these have already been covered in part, but there is much more that can be added.
Operational Tips & Tricks
- Command: Army, Corps, Divisions, Detached, Independent, Assigning Generals, Division limits
- General's abilities effects
- Force Composition
- Army & Corps: maneuvers, flanking, marching-to-the-sound ...
- Postures
- Sieges
- Entrenchments
- Forts (pre-existing): what, where, when, why
- Forts (built): what, where, when, why
- Operational Intelligence: 2-1-1* scouts vs. Cavalry vs. Brigs & Gunboats vs. Pinkerton & Boyd
- Military Control
- Early vs. Late troops operations.
- Frontage
- By Rail & River
- Support Units: what, where, why, when
- Cavalry: Integrated Brigade vs. Independent vs. Divisional vs. Corps, roles
- Artillery: Integrated Brigade, Divisional, comparisons
Strategic Operations
- Logistics: attached vs. detached supply, building depots, depot's effects, interdiction, economic development
- Strategic Dimensions 6-9: Understanding Terrain & Weather
- Naval: Blockade & Economics, Amphibious operations (composition, scale, objectives), Shore Bombardment, Force Interdiction, Pure Naval Ops, Supply.
- Raiding: Scale, Units, Defending, Shallow vs. Deep, Supporting
- Dealing with events: Onward to Richmond, General Orders, Souix Uprising, etc.
- Garrisons: what, where, why, when
Strategy
- Regional 1861: East (Virginia), West (Kentucky), Trans-Mississippi (Missouri), Coast & River
- Regional 1862-1863: East (Virginia & NC), West (Tennessee), Trans-Mississippi (Arkansas), Amphibious Penetrations
- Pushing the envelope: non-historical strategies & operations
- USA vs. CSA: strategic & operational contrasts
- Scenario comparisons
- Drafts: when, why, side-effects
- Financials: when, why, side-effects
- Economics: when, where, why, side-effects
- Loyalty: martial law and habeus corpus
- Replacements: what, when, where, why
- Reinforcements: what, where, when why
- The Home Front: Morale and VP
- Foreign Intervention
- Exploits
Meta Strategy
- Planning: Objectives, Assessment, Adjustment
- Human opponents vs. Athena
- Assessing your PBEM opponent: Proactive vs. Reactive, Macro vs. Micro, Chaotic vs. Methodical, Aggressive vs. Defensive, Speed vs. Power, Fun vs. Serious
- PBEM propaganda and intelligence gathering
- Forii: what to post? A research & propaganda tool.
