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Requires 3rd-Party Slitherine PBEM++ account for Multiplayer.
Cross-play multiplayer with Steam is supported.
Requires 3rd-Party Slitherine PBEM++ account for Multiplayer.
Cross-play multiplayer with Steam is supported.
Posted on: November 19, 2024
target22
Verified ownerGames: 19 Reviews: 2
Good Stratergy game
Easy to get into. AI plays well. Can be customized to change difficulty. Has an editer.
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Posted on: April 6, 2025
akosprime
Verified ownerGames: 44 Reviews: 1
Not worthy of the franchise
So many things wrong with this game. Water walking units with no impact on movement in the 19th century. Completely unbalanced gameplay with the AI. Rules that only apply to player controlled units, not AI units. Huge expansive map that barely gets used and no additional level of zoom in so that it becomes difficult see units and their status, especially when weather is affecting the zone. An ongoing problem with the franchise with the insistence on pretending to create a game where you can make choices, but then ramming through history completely unchanged by your choices. Just make a game of battles then, stop trying to sell a game that acts like your choices matter. Finally a personal, minor pet peeve of mine with this game was the insistence on only allowing "figure" icons and not having an option for simple icons for brigade, division, corps, etc. like in their other games.
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Posted on: November 5, 2025
JeffintheWest
Verified ownerGames: 169 Reviews: 4
Great Little Simulation, Some Odd Things
While not as flexible as a board wargame, the attention to detail here is simply outstanding. The campaigns seem to flow pretty accurately with history and it looks to me like they've got the supply system just about right in terms of what the players can and cannot do. Production is a little iffier IMHO, but that's because the make MPPs do the work of diplomacy and research too, which seems to limit the number of troops either side can raise during any given turn. In reality, the initial rush of recruits for both sides led to the creation of very large armies in relatively short time, which is only partially simulated in this game through the use of one-time "volunteer" units that pop up in roughly historical areas, but the inability of combine brigades into divisions gives a very false view of the actual military organization of either side. Stacking limitations (no stacking at all), also seems to be somewhat problematic. Finally, the Union is allowed to reinforce (and use elite reinforcements too) during the game, when, in reality, the Union never did any such thing (for political reasons mostly -- when you raise a brand new regiment, you get to give some political ally a position as a Colonel, whereas if all you do is send replacements into the existing units, you don't get to play political patronage games nearly as much (even if it actually means your army is better qualitatively to send the replacements). The political game is fascinating (though perhaps separate "political points" might have been less jarring as a mechanism), and again, seems to be well thought out in game terms. Despite the various odd mechanisms employed in the game, it plays very well, and does a pretty decent job of simulating the war, at least in terms of the broad strokes of history. It's challenging and surprisingly well balanced as a game, with a lot of replay value as the players search for that "perfect opening move". All in all I'd definitely buy it again.
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Posted on: October 10, 2024
quagmire38
Verified ownerGames: 36 Reviews: 1
Kind of clunky, but fun!
I have an issue with scrolling. Otherwise I like the game even though it whips my butt.
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Posted on: October 6, 2024
Damnamling
Verified ownerGames: 15 Reviews: 4
I like it
Great game plenty to think about
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