Any new news on the upcoming civil war game???

[Tanaka]

Screenshots? Websites? Details? [:)]

[Raverdave]

I'm also waiting for info on this !

[TBKR]

I'm awaiting this one with interest. Hope it goes down to regiment level and can be played across the whole of the continental United States. Although I wouldn't expect to see Confederates in still want to have the option of conducting a battle in Colorado as happened historically.

Also like the prospect of raising troops in the west for garrison duty or to send East.

[ShermanM4]

I'm awaiting this one with interest. Hope it goes down to regiment level and can be played across the whole of the continental United States. Although I wouldn't expect to see Confederates in still want to have the option of conducting a battle in Colorado as happened historically.

Also like the prospect of raising troops in the west for garrison duty or to send East.

The battle in New Mexico of the Ratone Pass could have gone either way. It would be neat to see the 1st Colorado Volunteers (they were called the Little Lambs) in action out in the west. The battle of La Glorieta Pass would be neat to engage in also.

[anarchyintheuk]

Dealing w/ Union and Reb fanboys would be a change from Allied and Axis fanboys. [:D] Anybody want to start an Enfield vs. Harpers Ferry or Parrot vs. Columbiad thread?

[Guz]

What CW war game?!?!?!?!?!

[Reiryc]

ORIGINAL: Guz

What CW war game?!?!?!?!?!

I believe one is being made based off the engine used for Gary Grigsby's World at War.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Reiryc

ORIGINAL: Guz

What CW war game?!?!?!?!?!

I believe one is being made based off the engine used for Gary Grigsby's World at War.

see link...

http://www.2by3games.com/devjournal/jou ... 51108.html

[Tacoma]

Here's the latest update from 2By3 Games:

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[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Tacoma

Here's the latest update from 2By3 Games:

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Great thanks!

[Raverdave]

From the Dev's web page:- " The game has monthly turns".[:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(]


I was kinda hoping for weekly turns[:(] A month is much too bloody long.....you could loose a whole state in one month ![:(]

[ravinhood]

Lol there we go the WHINES have already started. One wants weekly turns, another will want bi-weekly turns, I want daily turns. hahahaha

[JudgeDredd]

If it's monthly turns I doubt I'll be interested. In fact, the fact it's monthly turns and based on GG:WaW, I shouldn't think I'll be picking it up. Each to their own, but I couldn't go the interface with GG:WaW...and that fact there were 3 monthly turns. I much prefer the HoI2 game play....controllable hourly turns would do me fine. I'd probably even go daily...but when you start talking monthly, quarterly etc it just seems like their are chunks of time not being used efficiently enough, or that perhaps there isn't the depth...I don't know. I just know I wanted to like GG:WaW but couldn't...sorry Gary.

[ravinhood]

See and that's how I feel about the HTTR/COTA engine. To each his own like YOU said.

[JudgeDredd]

Yep...we're all made from different moulds.

[Greyshaft]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Yep...we're all made from different moulds.

I'm not

[Cap Mandrake]

Monthly turns??? I'm sorry. That is just dumb. The CSA moved several divisions of troops by rail/foot from the Shenandoah Valley to the first Battle of Bull Run in days.

This sounds like something you could play by memory while driving to grandma's house......"move one of the grey armies to the Maryland/Pennsylvania area for me....and take one of the horses too"

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Monthly turns??? I'm sorry. That is just dumb. The CSA moved several divisions of troops by rail/foot from the Shenandoah Valley to the first Battle of Bull Run in days.

This sounds like something you could play by memory while driving to grandma's house......"move one of the grey armies to the Maryland/Pennsylvania area for me....and take one of the horses too"

That sounds familiar! Could we be talking about the old MB American Civil War game witht the cute little plastic infantry, cavalry, and artillery pieces?

Hadn't thought of that one in awhile.

Hey, let's bring back the "line up your troops in a long column and then see whose column is longer" design approach. [:D]

Still, it was a fun game for a 10 year old and her older brother to play!

Seriously... I am also not a fan of games with lengthy strategic turns (like GGWAW). I could see weekly turns, but not monthly or quarterly. That is just too "strategic" for my liking. It may be suited for a modern war where action continues winter and summer, but not for a 19th century campaign where there was a short campaigning season with everything grinding to a halt as winter approaches (and the subsequent "muddy" spring" makes operations impossible.

BUT... I'm such a sucker for the Civil War that I will buy it however this game turns out! Just may not play it as much as I would have hoped. I own both HOI2 and GGWAW and I can see that my "niche" is somewhere between the two extremes.

[benpark]

Doesn't sound like my cuppa either. I'll be interested to see what it looks like, though.

[randell765]

At first when I heard that it is going to be montly turns I balked. But then I played the demo scenarios of "Birth of America", possibly the best strategy game I have played(at least in my opinion, I prefer revolutionary or civil war games, Im sure everyone has their own preference, though). Regardless that this game is the style I prefer, the game is practically perfect in every single way. And it has monthly turns. Download the demo if you do not believe me. A great, great game.

So all I am saying is, lets not judge this game before we see it. It could suck, it could be ok, or who knows, it could be great. When it comes out, let's judge it then.

Just my 2 cents, thought I'd throw it in there, now that I look back, it looks more like 1 cent [;)]