American Civil War

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:58 am

Is there an interest in this subject matter outside of the US? Have you bought any civil war games or would you in the future. A developer friend of ours is interested in selling games to Europe, but we don't know how big the period/setting is over here.

pyros · Post by **pyros** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:06 pm

Yes Iain,

I like very much the civil war games.
Especially the ones in which you may control/custom the weapon allocation (rifle quality), and production.

cheers,
Pyros

p.s is this something turn-based or real-time?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:05 pm

It's actually a battle game, not a campaign game, so no production.

efthimios · Post by **efthimios** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:52 pm

Well, I like the setting very much for a game, since UMS and a bit later North and South (Infogrames).
I avoided some of the grand strategy games set on that setting because they usualy were too lousy designed (GUI), or just boring as games. Yes I know I said I played and like UMS.
The Gettysburg game (Sid's) I played and finished in like a day or so and found it very easy, so I stopped playing it after about a week or less. If the game has a lot of replayability, freedom and nice graphics (I am sick of bad graphics), be it top perspective Grisby's like games, or Legion Arena like it doesn't matter as long as they are good graphics.
So, to sum it up, I would not buy such a game that has a limited amount of scenarios with limited replayability and bad graphics. BUT, that goes for all games no matter what the setting.

anguille · Post by **anguille** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:15 pm

It's one of my favorite time period.

I have the DVD's of "Gods and Generals" and "Gettysburg" at home.

Civil War: Robert E. Lee was one of my first games and i still play Civil War: Generals (1997) on a regular basis. I will buy American Conquest: Divided Nation in November which deals with that time period.

So i may well buy another good game of the period....

anguille · Post by **anguille** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:39 am

What battles are included in this game? are there many or just one? Did i read about it in the Wargamer forums?

Cheers...

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:11 am

I'm not sure of the details at the moment, but its going to be one or a small number of battles as far as I know.

malthaussen · Post by **malthaussen** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:05 am

Anguille, if you are referring to the game being produced by Matrix Games, it actually deals with the present/near future and a United States fragmented into several different factions.

-- Mal

anguille · Post by **anguille** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:10 am

malthaussen wrote:Anguille, if you are referring to the game being produced by Matrix Games, it actually deals with the present/near future and a United States fragmented into several different factions.

-- Mal

No...i was thinking about the MadMinute (?) game.

buckmade · Post by **buckmade** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:10 am

Civil war games is very cool especially the weapons used.

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:30 am

Here is an opinion from the Netherlands:

Yes I would definetly be interested if you guys were to make one. If it is inded a madminute game, than that would be awsome!!!!