Civil War Generals II?

See http://www.naval-warfare.net/.

Warship Combat : Dreadnoughts and Battleships has tactical battles covering the period (from 1890). Free demo download available.

ORIGINAL: marky

is SH4 gonna have starforce? [&:]

No -- hopefully. Ubi has dropped Starforce from their more recent games.

<t> The scenarios are designed based on the existence of cards for the human player, so the cards are part of the balance.<br/>
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Also, unless at the strategic level you have been able to buy everything, you've had to choose the cards over reinforcements. So that serves to balance out the play ...

<r> The cards are part of the strategic layer in the campaign game. Between battles, you can choose to spend points to recruit more troops, deploy units to the next battle, or get cards. The cards are playable during the battle themselves. The effect of a card is usually small, taken by itself, but ...

The best defense depends on knowing where KB is and having your CV forces elsewhere.

KB?

<t> Gaza is my favorite map, although not necessarily my favorite battle. I love the city scenery.<br/>
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I've won Gaza each time, but only the last time (#4?) through got a major victory, as this was the first time I took more than one flag. My strategy is in a large part determined by the ...

<r> Thebes is more the exception than the rule on this.<br/>
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The key factor is probably those archers on the walls. With them intact, its very hard to route the entire army. I've <U><s>[u]</s>only<e>[/u]</e></U> been able to win Thebes by taking the flag, but many other scenarios I often win ...

<t> I've found that getting all three health and rally cards are very important to me. So I usually buy those first, then full stands for all units. At that point, I usually only have enough money to train the lowest level of units. Training to veteran or elite doesn't seem worth the money.<br ...

My personal style of play is to buy all the cards I want, then hit the buy all button, and then train whatever units I have money left for.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> Could this game be compared to The Great Battles Series (Alexander,Hannibal and Ceasar) from Interactive Magic that I have really enjoyed over this period? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Having played both, I think the above comment by toddtreadway is appropriate. As ...