Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

I dunno man U.S. Grant Recommended this game to me bc I wanted to destroy slavers and refight the battle of the Wilderness which not enough people are getting into always going on about Gettysburg and Antietam but my dude Grant was out there slaying haters in the forest like it was going out of style and really before I say more I gotta say I dunno that I can recommend this game because it's frame rate is garbage and it really has a lot of flaws that you can read about in other reviews because this review is about killing white people and when it comes to killing white people this game lets you do that in spades there is another game about the civil war called war of rights and my main question is right to what my dude this game doesn't concern itself with those rights its main right is the right to have lousy AI and this AI is pretty lousy and the framerate is crap and the bugs are there but if you like total war and you like the civil war and you like run on sentences then you will like this review.

The game is very complex and only appropriate for hard core gamers that can dedicate the time. I really only purchased this game because the DLC expansion is something I have always wanted to see. Lets get into how broken the battle system is. In 1861 BG Sterling Price of the Missouri State Guard is attacked shortly after the war starts, as a player you can do nothing to alter the out come of this battle, its an automatic loss. I understand that it is an event similar to fort Sumter but I still think as a land battle I should have the opportunity to do something other than receive a dispatch on how he was defeated with less than 10 casualties. If his force warrants the programmers putting him into the game then the player deserves the opportunity to fight the battle. My first real battle was Bowling Green, Zollicoffer is my commander. My objective is to hold some arbitrary farm....stupid right? I tried the battle 19 times with the same outcome of a confederate defeat. My second attempt the union forces took this small farm, while I took the entire sitting and converted all of their supply routes yet they were still earning victory points. I control a MAJOR junction and all of the resupply points but I am still losing the battle? I realize I just have to fight my way through this one. I this next strategy multiple times, in which i place breast works at the rail bridge and a low water crossing site and place a brigade behind each breast work. I only have slightly above 3500 troops and my opponent has just under 9,000. The AI continues to attempt to cross the bridge and water crossing in marching formation meanwhile my forces and slaughtering the enemy. Regardless of my performance I always lose. In my best performance, my forces break ranks with just over 400 casualties, yet my opponent had over 2500 casualties.....yet 2500, nearly 30% of his forces are killed or wounded, the bodies are piled up on the bridge and low water crossing, yet in the site of sure victory my troops break ranks and I am defeated. Why did my troops decided to run? Ammo was fine, leadership still intact, breastworks holding, I feel like this defeat is written into the code as I tried the battle 19 times and no matter how badly the union forces were getting slaughtered my men would break ranks and run for no logical reason. How is it that the computer's forces managed to stay in the battle despite "seeing" nearly 30% of their brothers dead or dying? I would be defeated even though the enemy never took the objective from me. Also I deploy prior to t he start of the battle to my defensive position so my men walk maybe 300 yards and start building the breastworks so its not like they are tired. My second battle was some small battle in Maryland in which I was outnumbered 10 to 1. At this point I am trying to lose as I have lost most of my interest in the game. I speed up time and JB Hood, and DH Hill are routed very quickly, they are off the map yet the battle continues. I have no forces to command though I somehow hold one of the objects, another arbitrary spot next to a creek bed. I wait and wait wondering how my forces are still in the battle when I have received two notifications that both Hood and Hill have left the battle. Eventually I just turned it off. What the developers have created is nothing short of an amazing attempt and an innovative approach to strategy games. But in my opinion it seems like they have bitten off more than they can chew. The game still needs a great deal of work, particularly in the actual battles. I am concerned that the lack of realism will be passed on to the DLC content. I want to like the game, but the AI and its reaction triggers seem broken, as are the requirements for various victories. Towns, road junctions, rail stations, ports, forts and mountain /hill passes are all key terrain and objectives, random farms and locations next to rivers (not bridges or crossings) are not key terrain or objectives. Its a great concept, and hopefully within a year they will have it fixed.

yes

can't wait for napoleon

I love this game.

Kinda like a civil war total war game pretty fun