Ultimate General: Gettysburg

Visually (outside of UI) the game looks great, and I appreciated the dynamic mission structure, but the experience is not good outside of that. RTS fundamentals around movement, unit selection, and execution of actions is extraordinarily poor, making this hard to recommend. Mechanically, there seem to be flaws around charging, attacking lone artillery units with an entire brigade, and defending a height from attacking infantry while sustaining almost identical casualties than the attacker.

I've played the hell out of this game, (especially on mobile but that's technically a completely different game) but its so frustrating how many bugs are in the game that I'd imagine are easy fixes. Charging doesn't work, when the two units collide condition drops as its supposed to and maybe 1 guy per second dies but that's it. Completely useless and an especially big problem for the Confederacy that relies on it. There are a few graphical issues especially with the portrait sprites but those can be resolved by loading in via the alternative render launch. Missions don't process right here and there where an objective you had firmly under your control last engagement are now just in enemy hands. This is relatively rare but it does happen enough to be a nuisance. I can't say for sure about the rest of the game, but I've played the first mission a million times and I'd put money on what seems to be deliberate unbalance with fighting units. I mean that in the first mission I've played as both sides many times, and every time despite minute changes in how the battle starts, whoever I'm fighting has an advantage. There volleys are far more effective (as the Union my skirmishers always …

From the creator of Darthmod mods, comes Ultimate General - Gettysburg, his first game. Bought it to support his dev journey and gratefulness for fixing some things with Total War series. I remember him complaining about Creative Assembly about balancing, tactics, strategy, bugs, and historic accuracy. Balancing is almost nonexistant due to bugs that where refused to be fixed since launch. Starting with the fact that artillery doesn't shoot no matter what is its completely random, some do, some don't, one fixes itself while other brokes; defeating any purpose in tactics and strategy with it. AI can actually shoot so you dead no matter what you do. Charging is also bugged so cavalry becomes a decoy that gets obliterated easier than skirmishers which is retarded. But hey at least the ai can do it to screw you up. Tactics is too useless as well once it stops working, and it does applies for both, you and the ai. Don't really care much about usonian history, but people say its accurate. UI kind of sucks but works, but UX is hideous for immersion or enjoyment. Cannot recommend it even on the best sale.

Good historical replay of a famous battle. Awesome battlefield map. Lots of fun

good game, hard to attack but learnable

I was going through my library of games, and looked this up again. I played it once years ago. Visually beautiful but as others have stated, the AI was ridiculous. I remember a brilliant flanking maneuver outdone by the appearance of thousands of reinforcements out of nowhere. I am a casual gamer. As a result, as much as I love the theme of the Civil War, I have not touched any of the other games from this publisher. It was no fun. Maybe they have improved, but...I don't intend to spend money on such a hope.