Gary Grigsby's War Between The States Game Info(PC)
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"We must do more than defeat their armies, we must destroy them!”
From the legendary team at 2 by 3 Games comes a new grand strategy masterpiece: Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States. Taking gamers back to the American Civil War, this innovative grand strategy game allows players to experience the trials and tribulations of the role of commander-in-chief for either side. Historically accurate, detailed and finely balanced for realistic gameplay, War Between the States is also easy to play and does not take months to finish.
Promote and cultivate talented young colonels or brigadiers to build Corps and Army commanders that will help you fight and manage the war effort from battles to training of recruits with the utmost efficiency and success. An innovative multi-faceted rank promotion system allows leaders to gain in abilities and power based on their successes, while also simulating the historical progression of leaders during the war. Each decision you make must be weighed carefully, as promoting and demoting leaders, entering neutral states, raising troops and many other actions cost you the political capital that will determine your ability to achieve victory.
Explore the historical tactics of the day to find the best way to win. Use cavalry to raid the enemy supply depots and conduct reconnaissance to determine the best place to strike and then engage the enemy head on and watch the epic push and pull of battle unfold in front of you. In between battles, the mighty Union navy or brave Confederate raiders can strangle and disrupt supply flow at critical times in your campaign. Build river gunboats and transports to exploit the strategic value of the Mississippi and entrench and fortify key locations to deny passage to the enemy.
Features
- Use wisdom and strategy to appoint the best leader for the job With an innovative new system, units train and function best with the right leader. Weigh the strengths and weakness of the men commanding your armies to maximize unit attributes like attack, defence, movement, initiative probability, and training.
- Play on the edge of your seat with a suspenseful battle resolution system Watch the push and pull of forces as the battle unfolds that will make or break your plans resolve.
- Master critical Cavalry Scouting and Raiding and penetrate deep into enemy territory - With the optional Fog of War rule, cavalry scouting becomes even more important. The Confederate early war cavalry advantage is accurately simulated.
- Achieve naval superiority with a realistic and complete naval war model Harass and interrupt critical trade routes with a Union blockade and or Confederate commerce raiders. Build river gunboats and transports to control the Father of Waters and conduct amphibious assaults by river or sea.
- Fortify and Entrench Entrench your armies and build permanent fortifications to protect strategic locations and interdict river movement.
- Conserve your Political Capital Use it prudently to call for new troops, change leaders and enter neutral states. Build it up through successes and keep it high enough to secure final victory.
Gary Grigsby's Eagle Day to Bombing the Reich Game Info(PC)
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few…”
Gary Grigsby’s Eagle Day to Bombing of the Reich is a detailed simulation of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Germany in World War II. Combining both classic titles Battle of Britain and Twelve O'clock High into a single game package, this in depth air war simulation includes all the appeal of the original two titles with a huge list of new features and improvements.
Eagle Day to Bombing of the Reich comes packed with AI improvements, new aircraft types, units, and locations, a massive pilot database with over 18,000 pilots, and much more. Players can also enjoy new nationalities entering into the strategic picture like Axis co-belligerents, the USSR, and Brazil. In addition, fans of the immense detail of these classic strategy games will find richer detail across the entire game with more data tracked and displayed. Statistics like ground kills by pilot and unit, pilot and aircraft losses by unit, pilot loss date and more are now at the player’s fingertips!
Stop the Eagle Day directive in its tracks and spearhead the Bombing of the Reich!
Features
- A highly enhanced combination of Talonsoft's Battle of Britain and Twelve O'Clock High into a single game package
- Increased historic pilot database to over 18,000 pilots
- Richer detail across the entire game with more data tracked and displayed like ground kills by pilot and unit, pilot and aircraft losses by unit, pilot loss date and more
- New nationalities including Axis Co-Belligerents, USSR and Brazil.
- Numerous new aircraft types, units and locations.
- New waypoints in the plotting options to allow detailed routing to avoid flak or mislead the enemy.
- Added performance modifiers to all aircraft based on altitude and overall more realism with flight operations.
- Simplified field-pak options for the Luftwaffe defender, and added new options for the Allied attacker
- Fighter Bombers can now sweep and will attack.
- Many AI improvements like better choice protocols on which airfields to strafe based on recent recon and flak deployment
- Improved AI use of new planes
- An all new accurate fuel-use model, allowing units to fly until they are Bingo."
Frozen Synapse Game Info(PC)
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Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC strategy game that brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Plan your moves, test them out, then hit the "Execute" button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously.
Each match immediately places you in an intense tactical situation: there's no waiting around for the fun part. Blast a hole in a wall with a rocket and then send in your close-range units, or take a stealthy approach and set up cover with a sniper: your approach is entirely down to your own creativity. If you can predict your opponent's moves, you can win the match: this game has been crafted so that superior tactics will triumph! Once you've outwitted your opponent with a series of perfect turns, watch your Global Ranking climb and export the results to YouTube instantly!
With bite-size, critically-acclaimed hardcore strategy coupled with a striking sci-fi aesthetic, Frozen Synapse is the turn-based tactical game you've been searching for.
Features
- Single player: Campaign (55 missions), Skirmish Generator, Instant Skirmish
- Several unique multiplayer modes: Hostage Rescue, Disputed, Secure (bidding-based mode), Extermination, Charge
- Advanced Map Generator
- Slick, modern UI to make planning simple and intuitive
- Unique simultaneous-turn-based gameplay!
- Email notifications mean the game can effectively be "played by email"
- Community features: Friend List, rate and comment on games, Personal Feed, various ranking systems, Instant Matchmaking
- One-click match export to YouTube
- Evocative music and audio by electronic musician nervous_testpilot
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- As a special bonus, anyone who buys Frozen Synapse and registers an account on the multiplayer server will be given the opportunity to send a full copy of the game to a friend for free!
Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861-1865 Game Info(PC)
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Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War 1861-1865 combines grand strategy with battlefield tactics in one game, putting you in command at every level of the Civil War, from the mobilization of your nation’s resources to the control of individual brigades during the fury of battle. Relive the days of America’s greatest struggle: a time of blood, smoke, and glory.
Forge of Freedom is packed with historical detail. Control the careers of more than 1,000 generals – every general of the Civil War era. Equip your units with one of more than 50 types of period firearms and artillery. Field armies containing the Iron Brigade, the Orphan Brigade or 100 other legendary units. Choose your units’ standards from a collection of over 700 authentic flags. Allocate resources toward research in order to gain improved technology and logistical support in five different areas of research. Engage in diplomacy with European powers and in domestic politics with historically accurate state governors. Command your navy to hunt blockade runners, blockade ports, launch amphibious assaults, and bombard forts. Customize your brigades by adding personnel and equipment: train sharpshooters and Zouaves, equip reconnaissance balloons and horse artillery, deploy raiders and scouts, manage engineers and signal corps, and much more!
Forge of Freedom allows you to customize the game rules: play with just the amount of complexity that you enjoy. The turn-based game structure allows you to play at your own pace. Battles can be resolved quickly or fought on a detailed battle map using a comprehensive system that models fatigue, morale, supply, facing, formation, time of day, reinforcements, command-and-control, weather, and even battlefield smoke.
Forge of Freedom is a unique game combining strategy and tactics in one design to offer you the chance to grab the reins of history.
Features
- Over 700 authentic flags to customize unit standards
- Over 1,000 historical generals at your command.
- Control the Iron Brigade, the Orphan Brigade or 100 other legendary units
- 50 types of period firearms and artillery
- Train sharpshooters, equip reconnaissance balloons and host of other personal and equipment to customize your brigades.
- Chose between detailed and quick combat to resolve battles.
- Challenging AI
- Customizable complexity
For Liberty! Game Info(PC)
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“For Liberty !” is a turn based strategy game covering the American Revolutionary War from 1775 - 1783 and the Hungarian Rakoczi Independence War - the eastern theater of the War of Spanish Succession from 1703 to 1711.
You can command as many or as few of your forces as you want. Commands for troops range include attack, recon, retreat, train, rest, pillage, siege enemy forts, fortify important locations. You are responsible for paying and supplying your troops as well. Political decisions and foreign aid are simulated by an influence system that you can use to change the strategic situation. Use your influence to recruit temporary militia, insurgent regiments, or Indian (Native American) warriors that can augment your force. The fleet can be used to transport your troops to hard to reach locations where you can surprise the enemy. You can support your operations with the cannons of your fleets. There are 16 unit types of 5 nations included, each in authentic uniforms. All units in the game are large, animated figures. Each turn covers one week of real time.
For Liberty ! will make you truly understand how long and hard warfare was in the 18th century.
Features
- Campaign editor - create your own fictional or historical campaign.
- 9 Campaigns and an all new bonus campaign giving Players 10 total campaigns.
- Minimap, bigger and more varied battlefields in tactical battles.
- Detail 3D rendered of maps and units.
- Large map of the East Coast of North America / Central Europe with more than 3000 hexes.
- Improved fatigue system in tactical battles.
- AI enhancements on both the strategic and tactical levels.
- Turn based gameplay both on the strategic and tactical level.
- Manage important resources: recruits, horses, muskets, cannons, money and supply.
- Detailed political systems that allow the player to influence political decisions.
- Random events such as pirates, epidemics, betrayals, fires and many others.
- 400 historical leaders.
- Leaders are rated and can have up to three 3 special abilities with over 16 to choose from.
- 16 different unit types: dragoon, infantry, rifleman, militia, indians, hussars, etc.
- 7 stances on the strategic map: defense, attack, rest, siege, retreat, routed and training.
- 4 kind of formations on the tactical map: skirmish, column, line and routed.
- Realistic depiction of battles, units will not fight to the last man, battles are won by routing the enemy army from the field.
- Towns can be pillaged to gain supply at the cost of losing production.
- Multiplayer capability: hot-seat, PBEM and TCP/IP.
- Players can select basic ruleset for new players and advanced ruleset for veterans.
- Players can select between 3 different difficulty levels.
