Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865)

A really ambitious game which manages to implement the grand strategy formula. Although i had some bugs which messed with my experience a little, the dev team were quick at responding and helping me with my issues. Recommending to anyone who wants a sometimes painfully complex and realistic civil war strategy game.

This is just about everything someone could ask for in an ACW game. Or that's what I thought, until the more you play, the more you realize that there are glaring problems that the devs need to address. For starters, the AI is just absolutely wacky, on the campaign map, and in the tactical map. How the CSA manages to field ~80,000+ men by mid-May 1861 is beyond me, while I'm stuck with 40,000-50,000 men by May-June. It just turns into stack-spam. Then, you get to the tactical battles. The AI's inability to form a coherent battle line is where this game falls apart at a tactical level. More often than not, the AI clumps up, and is unable to space out their forces, not only giving me, the player, many chances, every battle to surround and destroy them, but it just creates performance issues. Hoooh-boy, the performance issues . . . Performance is pretty abysmal. Battles with 10,000 or less soldiers, fantastic. But anytime you get into a large-scale engagement (basically all of the historical scenarios, and the vast majority of engagements on the main front in campaign), the game nearly grinds to a complete stop, and this is regardless of changing graphics settings or unit model sizes. This is the most important thing that the devs need to address before doing anything else. That being said, this game does have upsides. The Order-of-Battle and army builder is where this game truly shines. Choosing your units, dressing them in custom and dynamic uniforms, and outfitting them with weapons from your available arsenal, it adds a sense of truly building forces for a large war. And recruiting units is not instantaneous, it's predicated on picking the state or region, and recruiting a unit, and said unit being mustered to the main corps (if only the AI followed this, I feel like they don't with how rapid their armies grow). This game is SOLID. It isn't a bad game, it just needs a lot of QoL updates, especially with performance. If you are thinking of getting this game, just understand what you're buying before you get it!

Un jeu de stratégie qui reconstitue bien l'ambiance de la guerre de sécession

best civil war strategy game to date

So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy it's almost unbelievable, even with AOE mod, that is already fixing some things, but bugs are still persistent, and some of them can ruin your battle easily... Could be very good game, but sadly, bugs are killing it.

Inutilement compliqué sur certains aspects périphériques, mais ce n'est pas catastrophique. Par contre l'IA détruit complètement le jeu. Elle ne subit aucun brouillard de guerre, du coup lorqu'elle attaque la situation est vite compliquée, la défense en infériorité numérique est rapidement la norme. Les pertes sont délirantes : bien trop faibles, certains sièges sont compliqués 30 000 contre 300 ça durer plusieurs mois !. le jeu se limite a contrer le comportement de l'IA ! le concept d'objectif est superflu.