AGEOD's American Civil War Hits Retail

[Jason]

<strong>[ Announcement ]</strong>

<p>Thanks to <a href="http://civilwar.cdvusa.com/news/view/233" target="_blank">CDV</a>, indie wargame <strong><a href="http://civilwar.cdvusa.com/content/about" target="_blank">AGEOD's American Civil War</a></strong> is now available in stores across North America.</p><blockquote><p> Cary, NC, January 31, 2008 &ndash; cdv Software Entertainment USA is pleased to announce that they have shipped AGEOD's American Civil War: 1861-1865 -- The Blue and The Gray to North American retail outlets today. The game, created by acclaimed designer Philippe Thibaut, focuses on key battles of the American Civil War, and puts players in the combined role of diplomat, logistician and strategist. For more information about the game, please visit <a href="http://civilwar.cdvus.com/">http://civilwar.cdvus.com</a>.

AGEOD&rsquo;s American Civil War: 1861-1865 &ndash; The Blue and the Gray is a historical war game that places players at the head of the United States or the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Players take on the roles of military and political leaders trying to lead their factions to military, political or economic victory during five historic years that divided the nation. Players must organize their military forces, all while managing supply and morale as they plan actions over land, sea and by rail. The game consists of challenging scenarios, campaigns and grand campaigns, all played out on the largest American Civil War map ever created for a game. Strategy gaming fans will face a daunting challenge in this authentic title created by Philippe Thibaut, renowned designer of the award-winning Europa Universalis, Pax Romana and Birth of America. </p></blockquote><p>In other AGEOD news, <a href="http://www.killerbetties.com/napoleons_campaigns_review_pc" target="_blank">Killer Betties</a> has a 3/5 stars review up for <a href="http://www.napoleons-campaigns.com/#" target="_blank">Napoleon's Campaigns</a>. </p>

 

[Burning Bridges]

It's really a good game if you have patience. Maybe the best grand campaign of all time.

 

[someone else]

*Buys in the hype*
Maybe it will reach my shores in a year, too expensive to buy over the net.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Is it? I ordered it from Germany and it was not expensive at all.

Anyway, if you find it hard to get into the game, don't give up too early.
I was close to skipping this one after I had problems to see the point in the demo. Once you realized that this is not a chesslike game as panzer general - and more a simulation of civil war - it will all make sense. You can order your armies where to move but for a lot of reasons they might not execute your orders. This game tries to simulate real chain of command problems, hesitating commanders and so on.

If you like the graphics and you're into complex strategy games (not just pretending to be like the ), I am sure you will like this one.

If you have questions go over to ageod.com to meet a lot of folks who can never put it down.

http://www.ageod.com/forums/index.php

 

[Burning Bridges]

I confess that I am a complete fanboi of this game and making so much advertisement in the web that ageod should pay me .. well here are some screenshots:

 

[Burning Bridges]

Now isn't this a beautiful game? But on top of that it is more complex than anything you ever known and has very competent AI.

 

[whatusername]

I tried playing through the tutorial but the UI was way too overwhelming for my simple mind

 

[Dmitron]

Now isn't this a beautiful game?

Yes, that it is. I dream of a science fiction game with this look..

 

[Burning Bridges]

I tried playing through the tutorial but the UI was way too overwhelming for my simple mind

How long did you try? Because a couple of hours is not enough to understand this game. Especially if you're used to strategy games with more chesslike gameplay (I played game like PG before where there were you could pretty much predict what was going to happen).

Tbh I wonder who is not feeling overwhelmed by this game. After the first day I went myself like "I like complex games but this one is too complex". It got better in the subsequent days when I understood what I have to care about and what is not so important. After a while you know what you have to do and you begin to discover the marvels of the Grand Campaign.

My advice is to take a break and try again another day. As long as you don't understand how the game works it is easy to get frustrated and miss out on a real gem.

You can also ask me questions or head directly to:

http://www.ageod.com/forums/index.php

there are a lot of really good folks, who will always help you with strategy questions. In fact we are still discovering a lot of new details every month.