Title: Battleplan: American Civil War
Genre: Casual, Simulation, Strategy
Developer:
The Mustard Corporation
Publisher:
KISS ltd, Osprey Publishing
Release Date: 4 Jul, 2014

English

Cut the crap, let's get straight to the point:
Pros:
- easy to learn, not that hard to master to on two first levels of "easiness". (militia and regular)
- nice ui
- nice movement system. You just draw a line mith a mouse and units follow it
- fast battles (win or lose in 5-10 mins for each battle). It can also be a cons.
- civil var flavour with historical units
- terrain bonuses
- some small things like adjutants who carry general's orders (they may become lost\/intercepted and the orders get lost with them), hidden personalities of unit commanders - cautious may ignore some of your orders, agressive may charge needlessly into action, etc.
- basic logistics (artillery runs of ammo and must be resupplied by a wagon train)
- decent AI.
Cons:
- absolutely no graphics to speak of. Units are represented by rectangles composed of little squares. If such squares are in disarray you unit ir broken\/routed\/not in good order. See screens above and that's the battle in its entirety. Environment consists of a few copipasted houses\/trees
- battle can run on one speed only or be paused. Maybe you can change it but I didn't find out how
- no tactical formations. Column or two rows. Fullstop
- engagements between units are affected by terrain, morale (milita, regular, vets), number of men and flanking mostly. Units have other stats. like fatigue but since battles are so short it's usually on maximum. Weather\/wind direction are also there but mostly irrelevant. Night affects visibility for engaging, however, and you can see campfires where units are postioned (including enemy units)
- dumb building ui. Bridges\/covers are hard to place and cannot be cancelled. I once lost a battle because I misclicked, all nearby units started building something and noone was left in control of my victory points
- about 20 battles for each campaign (I found it really short at the pace the game was running)
- units have no independent thinking beyond personalities of their cammanders. If a neighbour is attacked a few meters away most prefer to stay where they are and enjoy the show.
- some simple but annoying bugs. The ones I encountered during almost 6 hours:
units get stuck. Usually in rivers. I had to fight without artillery entirely because my wagon train got stuck
units have trouble crossing bridges. Some can cross only after second\/third attempt.
if you want to get some regular\/vet achivements (regular Bull Run, etc.) set to zero your campaign of a previous difficulty level. I.e. I beat the Confederate campaign on regular + vet. for some battles, but because I also had Confederate militia campaign started earlier I got only militia achievements.

Verdict: worth playing if costs less than 3 $ and you really like US civil war. Want something more complicated and\/or with graphics try Civil war Mod for Medieval TW.. I like this game because you can get into the action fairly quickly, and because I was (and still am) a big fan of the PBS\/Ken Burns Series, The Civil War. I first found this game on my Ipad a year or two ago. If you want just a quick and dirty game, by all means get this one. If you are looking for a more in depth strategy\/tactics experience, then maybe find another title. I picked this up cheap during the summer sale and it is well worth it to me.

PROS

+ Quick to get into. While the tutorial helps and clears up issiues the game is pretty intuitive.
+ Even though this game has been out for a while, the devs are still updating it and actually listen to player suggestions
+ Relatively Bug Free
+ Small - It's a small, bare bones game. Does not take up much space, a laptop from the mid 90s could play it easily, and of course, it's cheap.

CONS

+ It's small. It's not a high end, graphics intensive game. Does not really matter to me, but I know it does matter to some.
+ There is a campaign mode, but it's not at all a real campaign. The campaign is really just a mission list that you play through.
+ No real depth: This is what bugs me the most about this game: The chain of command only goes down to brigade level. So if you wanted to play, for instance, the 50th Maine's Heroic Stand atop LIittle Round Top on the second day of the battle of gettysburg, well...too bad.. I'm leaning more towards Battleplan ACW rather than Ultimate General Gettysburg. Battleplan keeps its promise adding depth and realism while keeping a managable fast paced tempo. The formations in Battleplan have their own character, something I see sorely missing in Ultimate General. For example, Leaders are sorted as either agressive, steady, or cautious folk. An agressive subordinate will be instrumental in conducting an assualt where as a cautious one might delay or flat out refuse the order. In addition, it also features a decent take on command and control amongst other features here and there. For example, choosing where you move your HQ isn't only about the bonuses it applies to troops. The effects of longer or shorter distances from HQ to ordered unit affects the uptake of said orders. All in all Battleplan ACW is a meaty pocket sized wargame that trades graphics for depth of gameplay. I think it's a fine game for strategy game fans but may be too easy for hardened wargamers. Check out this Let's Play for gameplay and more information.\t <\/a>. What a fun little no-frills real-time Civil War Game... that doesn't work. The graphics are kind of bare bones, which is fine with me, and the interface is very simple and easy to use. But it is damn near impossible to consistantly get units to do what you want them to do. (This is as of 1.3).

The major problem with this game is getting units to move is an uncertain affair. There is a kind of cool mechanic where sometimes your orders don't get through, simulating the communication difficulties of the second world war. I can go with that. What I can't go with is when you give an order, it get's accepted, and the unit doesn't move. Even after you repeat the order. Again. And again. And again. And again. Units will just randomly "stick" in spots and will be essentially worthless for the rest of the battle.

Worse are river crossings. I played Chancellorsville as the Union. Most of my force started across the river. There are several bridges. I must have re-issued my orders three dozen times before I got them across. Meanwhile, the few who stragged over the bridge got savaged one by one, because no one followed them. Most of the game can be more or less played and even enjoyed if you really try, but on a battle like that where you have to cross a river... forget about it. Don\u2019t bother.

Beyond that, the game really doesn\u2019t do a good job at communicating what is going on. The units are represented with boxy little symbols, which is fine with me, but half the time, I can\u2019t even tell who\u2019s firing. Sometimes, my units just suddenly die. No warning, just poof. Sometimes it\u2019s because there is a hidden enemy, but sometimes, they will just randomly panic and flee, even if not under fire.
The sad part is there is a really fun game hiding under here. This is one of those games that I want badly to recommend, but cant. I love the design idea, love the genre, love supporting indies, but the game just doesn\u2019t play right. Unless you are willing to put up with some major frustration and love Civil War RTS, I\u2019d pass.. The game starts and runs fine, but the UI does not appear. So you can't do anything once you load the battle. Looks interesting, and was willing to give it a chance, but the UI not loading seems to be a common problem and there's no more support for this game. Do not buy it.. This games does a nice job of balancing abstraction while maintaining enough tactical elements to make it compelling. A very clean and consistent UI contributes to smooth play.

I like it. 9\/10. The game is very similar to a wargame from the mid-late 70s that was for the Napoleonic period. That game was strategic and used rectangular counters, similar to the ones in this game, to depict forces. The game that I played almost 35 or so years ago may have, in fact, been made by Avalon Hill.

I purchased the Battleplan ACW game after playing the demo. I was glad that the developer had released a demo as I always like to try before I buy. The demo proved a couple of things to me: first, to see if it ran under Windows 7-64bit, and second, to see if I like the way the game played since I read a lot of goods & bads on the forums. So far, I like the game. I also saw that the developer had released a patch today so players could slow the game down if you wanted to.

It is a strategic wargame so you should be commanding large units (...

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