"Scourage of war Gettysburg in a few days" Topic

The spiritual sequal to the Take Command series(one of my vert favorite computer games)

While the two TC games dealt with 1st and second manassas/bull run this game will deal with if not the most important battle of the war deffinatly the most famous.

The game follows the same recipi as the TC games, the senarios and the open battle(now called sand box)
The senarioes deal with the battle, here you will take a virtual tour of the battle, in one senario you will fight as Buford delaying the Confederats.
In another you will fight as hood trying to take the devil's den ect.

Senarious are from brigade sized to corps sized.
You could probebly take a bachlors degree with what you will learn from the senario part of the game.
The sand box lets you play full army sized games, and you can download OOBs so you can play other battles to.
Her you can command from regiment all they way through to army. You also get to play Multiplayer something that was lacking in in the TC games, there is no limit on how many players can join the game, in theory you can have 50 players, were most play brigade commanders, then a few division commanders then fewer still corps commander and one army commander ect. You can play either regluar multiplayer with two sides fighting, or ALL players can join the same side and fight the computer ai.

The game has sevral other imporvments besides MP, it got sevral graphical upgrades, the game is now 1:4 scale, so regiments got from 80 spreites to 200 sprites, and by the time you get into army level you got tens of thousands of soldiers in the screen.
The ai(which was very good in the first games) is even better now, you can now give spesific orders by currier that the AI will follow.

The game and demo will be out before the end of march.

Take a look
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PS. I have no afiliation with the game or game makers other then beeing a fan,

Sound good, please keep us updated.

Will do, oh I forgot to mention, the game is more a simulator then game, it's very close to miniature wargames in gameplay.

The game is described as Tactiacl Battle Simulator

I have all the TC:2M mods loaded up, including the gorgeous Anderson's Crossroads maps. I currently have one of the 6 hour Antietam scenarios running while I read a book during the lulls. Don't know if my video processor will even allow me to play Scourge of War.

Shiloh was the best, most historically engaging mod of them all. I'll never forget being ordered to lead a lone brigade against the Hornet's Nest, resulting in a bloodbath for my men, and then being ordered to attack the same position again with another brigade an hour later-- directly over the bodies of the fallen from my previous useless attack!

Well as far as I know NOBDY has been able to play a test senario from june 30th, with 90 000 Union and 70 000 Confederate, that would be 40 000 3d sprites,
Those that have test it say they get framerates of 1-5 a second, and thats while the soldiers are just standing there, nobody got far enough to test actual combat.

But for regular battles and senarioes it should work just fine.

They have aperantly done alot of work to improve the preformance, so a big battle in CowGb dosn't take as much out of the computer as a big battle in TC

So lets say you played Shiloh in TC which has about 90 000 at the biggest.
Now in Take command that would be 9 000 sprites, the same battle in SoW would be 22500 BUT the 22000 sprites would take as much computer power as the 9000 sprites from TC.

So if you can play Shiloh in TC you can play Shiloh in SCoW

Problem is not memory, but rather the requirement of "Video card should NOT be on board, but should be separate, no shared memory." My video card is what came stock with my Dell. I'll know right away if the demo runs, though.

"Scourage" -- is that a cross between "courage" and scourge?

No just me not beeing able to spell right.

It's supose to be scourge, which you would have seen if you clicked on the link.

Anyway here are some pics

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Basicly you can play any brigade from the battle you want, want to command the Iron brigade?
Or Hoods Texans?
Go ahead make your day

Looks great…..I shall put it on my definite list!

cheers
FM

Gunfreak. Is this igo-ugo or real time. Whatever, it looks really good. I hope the system is like Combat Mission. That game is great!

It's real time, and by that I mean real time, no units running accross the map in a minute. to move lagre bodies of men, you need to use the roads. you also need to use cav to scout as they can move fast along the road.

I've had sevral games in the early versions of the series were I had a division alone, separted that had to fight a whole corps, but because time is realistic, a corps moving agasint me takes time, it takes some time before it can use it's full force, which gives me time to delay them with my division, so I send requests for reenforcments and they might be a mile away, so I have to hold the ground while columns of reenforcements march along the road, and I can tell you, you get NERVOUS when you see your brigades waver, and the help is still a good 5-10 minutes away.
Some times the help comes in the knick of time, other times, you just can't hold them.

Battles will last from 30 minutes to 2 hours for senarioes, and for multyplayer and sand box battles, you can choose from 1 hours to no time limit. Battles can in theory last hours and hours.

My record in the old game was 4.5 hours useing Antietam OOB, the battle was just as bloody as the real battle.

Looks like the game will be released this weekend, march 31st at the latest.

The game and demo is the same file, you download the demo, which comes with a battle, a multiplayer battle, and toturials, then if you want the full game you simply buy a code and unlock the full game.

The demo is out

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You get one single player toturial were you learn to play the brigade sized battles.

You control a brigade with about 2000 Union troops, but you end up having to fight about 4200 rebs I ended up getting killed and lost it all.

I've now played the toturial sevral times and each time something diffrent has happend.

I won my second try very easly, lost only 131 soldiers.

My third try was a massive defeat.

Unlike the previous battles the rebs came out on my left flank in mass 3500 of them just crashing into my flank.

After an hour of hard fighting I had lost 55% of my brigade.
The other union troops lost even more.

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