Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

A strategy game where your units don't line up or deploy where you tell them to randomly face wrong directions super frustrating and yes i had unit ai off still there would be a paint area on map where i told my units to go and yet my units would consistently line up at weird angles exposing there flanks sucks this game could be a lot of fun but idk how you ♥♥♥♥ up such a basic feature anyway yah no not worth it

The Game takes some getting used to. unless you play these type of games. A good knowledge of Civil war history helps also. Fun game though!!

if youre an avid ACW geek, its really good. I enjoy it a lot. Buy on sale. the whiskey and lemons DLC is also a great addition

Incredibly detalied, the pacing and command on the battlefield is excellent

I got gifted this game and i was really excited to play it when i got it. I played some Whiskey and Lemons Campaigns and quickly got constantly frustrated with how dumb the AI can be. For example in one session i was playing as a officer in the CSA and the corp/army that i was in moved out to southern Ohio and then sat there, did nothing, and did not do anything else. i sped up the time scale to see if the army would moved to contest a union army somewhere or attack/occupy any holding but no we sat in the middle of a forest with no supply for 2 years doing nothing!!! to sum up the rest of the session the CSA lost pretty quick. Also this isn't the only campaign I've had this happen in as i did a union game where pretty much the same thing happened. my other issue for the game has to do with combat, you could set up barricades or trenches for your men to sit in and they will move out into the open out of cover once they see a enemy, whats the point of me building this crap if they wont even use it!

The AI is just annoying to deal with as the way how armies retreat and withdraw makes no real sense. The in battle battles tend to be a bit clunky as the movement can be annoying to deal with and the over the movement mechanics are really micro intensive at times.

Pretty good game overall, some features like economy or supply lines exist but don't really seem to matter and research/acquiring new tech is super slow but I don't mind cause all i want is to command the army and not worry about economics. battles are great to command but are kind of laggy when zoomed in and kind of hard to see carnage of fighting (low body count left on the field) and melee could be better mechanically and visually. Personal pet-peave: love the customization of units but wish there were more options and that those options were more visible on battlefield. Would love to see a game like this for other wars or eras with more factions like napoleons campaigns or Italian or German unification wars, or even renaissance wars.

The base game is superb, however Whiskey and Lemons just doesn't work, you are depending on the army commander to know his business and they just don't. They commit 1 or 2 Regt's at a time against the enemy, wait for them to be beaten then throw in the next 2, just awful game play as you have absolutely no control of your career because you need success in battle to progress and with the half wits in charge it is entirely up to chance, may as well roll a dice, it is that random. Base game highly recommended, DLC not worth it.