Scourge of War - Gettysburg (American Civil War wargame); AAR inside!

[Llyranor]

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Welcome to Scourge of War - Gettysburg. American Civil War wargame featuring huge maps with up to tens of thousands of men clashing against each other on the battlefield. Gameplay is designed to be fairly realistic in terms of implementation of 19th century warfare/tactics/doctrine. The ebb and flow of combat is particularly awesome. This plays very similarly to Take Command 2nd Manassas for those of you familiar with that game.

 

Demo is available here: http://scourgeofwar.com/Downloads/ScourgeOfWarGettysburg.exe

 

Demo file is also the full game. You purchase an activation code to fully unlock it. DRM is that you can have the game activated on one computer at a time. You can deactivate it on one PC to reactivate elsewhere. In the event that your PC/HD dies before you can deactivate, you can contact the devs who should accommodate you. This isn't a DRM discussion thread, however.

 

Here's a short AAR of 2p co-op with a buddy who we will call Nick for all intents and purposes. It's division vs division, whereas the game also supports corps vs corps and army vs army, so there are much much much bigger scenarios.

 

Red is me (Confederate, brigade commander Avery), yellow is Nick (Confederate, brigade commander Hays), blue is the Union AI. Confederate AI also has a few extra brigades it controls.

 

This is what we know about the enemy position. My plan is to move into that forest and extend to the right flank if possible.

 

Meanwhile, Nick is sending me an order by courier. Thanks Nick!

 

Fastforward, and I'm in the forest. My main regiment is engaged at the center, while my left regiment is assisting (flanking) the AI fighting on the left side. My rightmost regiment will attempt to flank the right.

 

The left Union regiment breaks. Meanwhile, they're also mobilizing more units to secure the right. Nick, however, is bringing his regiments to secure my right flank.

 

As we are engaging on the right, one Union regiment flanks my center regiment, but I outflank it with my spare left regiment.

 

We charge at each other with bayonets, but with my superior numbers they break it off and retreat. Meanwhile, slowpoke Nick is still setting up on my right.

 

Finally set up, the right flank becomes an extended front.

 

This is the AI situation on the left flank.

 

Now, with the enemy artillery right in the open, the temptation is too great (also, close range artillery is deadly). I bring my left regiment up and gamble a charge. Nick is also mustering a spare regiment to support that attack.

Edited April 2, 2010 by Llyranor

[Llyranor]

In an (unsurprising move ), the AI charges into me (given how close they are) after I've still managed to make a few artillery units surrender. Nick is still moving up to support me.

 

I guess my regiment had its morale crushed, as they surrendered pretty easily (that's after I already gave the retreat order). Nick is finally up, though, and a bayonet charge ensues.

 

Meanwhile, the right flank is stabilizing as we make a few regiments retreat. We press up.

 

Trying to avoid the same fate as mine, Nick retreats his leftmost regiment. We also see the Union reassembling into lines on the right.

 

Carefully, we push them back.

 

On the far left, the AI is doing a good job of encircling the enemy as their main force has been repulsed.

 

As we're still advancing, the artillery is fully exposed once again. For revenge, I send my left regiment on it.

 

Since we're approaching a crucial part of the battle, I send an order to Nick.

 

We're still doing some mop-up, but the Union is mostly defeated already.

 

I intercept a courier message that one enemy commander tried to send to another (this also works in multiplayer where you can intercept enemy players' messages to each other)!

[Llyranor]

Retreat into the forest!

 

Major victory!

 

My stats.

 

Fun game. Really enjoying the gameplay. Co-op is a blast.

[kirottu]

Wait... Who probed whose rear?

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I'll have to look into the game, thanks for posting the info.