Civil War Game

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utvol0427

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Can't wait to get home today. I should have the History Channel Civil War game and a Medal of Honor game that has 3 different M.O.H games with it. Should keep me busy til time for NCAA '08.
 
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The History Channel game is a Shooter, correct? I dont think i'd like it. I have played about every CW game since No Greater Glory in (1993-4???) and the only one that really got me hooked was "Take Command:2nd Manassas", by Mad Minute Games, which i have played for about 6 months and never get sick of.

Basically, It's on the framework of the 2nd Manassas Campaign, from Cedar Mountain to Chantilly, putting you in command of Brigades, Divisions, Corps, and Armies, depending on the scenario. This is the only game where i have puffed my chest, yelled at my boys to 'keep it on' and panicked as my flank began to cave beneath an unexpected assault. Where i have (much to my old lady's confusion) yelled at Captain Dement of the 1st Maryland Battery to "Hold them off, damn you, the infantry is on the way!!!"...As a self admitted Civil War nut, this game did it for me.

The link isMadMinute Games, Inc., and under downloads you can get the demo version, which includes tutorials of Brigade and Division command, as well as a scenario as John Gibbon and the "Iron Brigade" at Brawner's Farm, on the march to Manassas...I recommed it to anyone willing to try it, it's possibly the best game I've played.

I also bought "Forge of Freedom" by matrix games, based upon Civil War grand strategy, but find that it tries to do too much with the game to stay interesting, let alone fun. This is coming from someone who loves Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron, but this game is too deep and too historically inaccurate for a time period (the Civil War) that i love so much. As a side not, Take Command is NOTHING like the grand strategy games i mentioned, it is quite possibly the best battlefield command game ever made
 
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utvol0427 said:
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I have a farily old Civil War game on my computer.

It has an editor section to where you can make out scenarios.

Lee, Longstreet and Jackson commanded their own seperate army.

Lee took Baltimore at a terrible price and Jackson swept into Pennsylvania and Longstreet held the forces in Washington at bay.

The game is so silly, it has a government intervention by the British or the French.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
I have a farily old Civil War game on my computer.

It has an editor section to where you can make out scenarios.

Lee, Longstreet and Jackson commanded their own seperate army.

Lee took Baltimore at a terrible price and Jackson swept into Pennsylvania and Longstreet held the forces in Washington at bay.

The game is so silly, it has a government intervention by the British or the French.
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This sounds like the new 'Forge of Freedom'..the CSA can emancipate the slaves in the summer of '61, have minimal negative effects on the home front, and gain HUGE European support....I'm all for games that offer lots of playability, but for an issue that was not historically feasible to be included in the game is garbage....Pat Cleburne, the best CSA battlefield general in the western theater, was denied promotion to Corps (and eventually it may have been Army) command because he raised the possibility of arming slaves in 1864...let alone what would have happened in 1861
 
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JTrainDavis said:
This sounds like the new 'Forge of Freedom'..the CSA can emancipate the slaves in the summer of '61, have minimal negative effects on the home front, and gain HUGE European support....I'm all for games that offer lots of playability, but for an issue that was not historically feasible to be included in the game is garbage....Pat Cleburne, the best CSA battlefield general in the western theater, was denied promotion to Corps (and eventually it may have been Army) command because he raised the possibility of arming slaves in 1864...let alone what would have happened in 1861
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I got this game when I was around 12 so that would have been 14 years ago.

It is nothing elaborate but it is quite fun.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
I got this game when I was around 12 so that would have been 14 years ago.

It is nothing elaborate but it is quite fun.
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On a grand scale, the most fun i had was "No Greater Glory", from the early 90's, there was a clone game called 'Revolution 76', that came first, basically the same game but the names and places have changed...they can both be had for free at Home of the Underdogs (google it), as well as the best game ever, PTO 2
 
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