"Ultimate General: Gettysburg " Topic

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"The new game from Total War's DarthMod creator Game-Labs LLC, a real-time strategy title based on the Battle of Gettysburg, is getting a multiplayer mode, developers announced on the game's Steam page.

Real-time strategy game Ultimate General: Gettysburg was announced last July. Creative director Maxim Zasov confirmed with Polygon that title is on "the finish line of the process" and is currently up for voting on Steam Greenlight.

According to the post, Ultimate General will launch first through Steam Early Access. This version will not include multiplayer, but developers "know it is an absolutely necessary feature in a strategy game" and plan to add it soon after launch. The title will also use a "Line of Sight" mechanic similar to other RTSs "Fog of War" features, where a thin cloud cover represents players' area of visibility. In Ultimate General, troops will only be able to interact with what they are directly looking at, and will have to climb terrain or turn in order to see what is beyond or behind them…"
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Armand

Err this article is two years old now.

That said, it is a fun game. I returned to it at the weekend after a year away and its good to dip into now and again. There are some issues with it; it can be be very tricky to know where to site artillery so they can fire, and you seem to be able to cram lots of troops into spaces that would result in total chaos in reality. But overall its quite convincing, and the AI is good.

I'd love to see it moved out into a bigger campaign game, rather than the current limitations of Gettysburg.

My only frustration with the game was that cavalry seemed far too powerful. They could hold ground with impunity against infantry and could just scoot around the board collecting up victory locations (at least in the first scenario).

Thanks for the guidance.

Amicalement
Armand

I agree with clibinarium, I'd like to see this expanded, at least to all major battles of the ACW.