Grand Tactician The Civil War Review! A Wonderfully Ambitious And Detailed Strategy Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- In this grand tactician confederate campaign and battle gameplay we can see that the developers may have bitten of more then they can chew, but the scale of ambition and relative quality of what they have produced is never the less impressive!
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I would be interested in seeing Arch do a let's play with this game.
I miss the let's plays
Imagine this game player vs. player.
An LP campaign would be fantastic. Maybe even a 2v2 match if the engine can do that.
I enjoyed every damn minute of this review, I'd follow General Arch all the way to Washington DC and then on to New York and Philidelphia if necessary! With a Norweigan to lead, the South will rise again!
@@Kale-qv4gt we all do
This is a game I've wanted to see made for a very long time. Glory to the devs.
Glory to the algorithm.
The comment for the Algorithmus, glory to Arch
But does it automatically spawn half a million enemy soldiers every time you win a major victory against them?
Nope it doesn't....the enemy is recruiting like you have to do.
Ultimate General... Man, that is always a painful experience.
@@H.J.Fleischmann it's not Ultimate General, it's very different
They steadily do, though I am outnumbered 2:1 by the south. They have 5 large 20k armies chasing my smaller armies. I am winning due to combining my troops where needed
@@-row-gunny8618, I know. He knows too. He is making a referencing to the other major game series in this setting and I am acknowleding it.
I love that such games are still a thing in todays time of "reaching the wider audience".
This game has been made with heart, not just 'we need next version of this AAA game, so go do it... or something.' - All that extra flavor briefings, Telegraph company reference, the fact that military units dun just respond instantly but needs courier messaging to receive orders, time to understand the orders and THEN carry it out. Hell, I bet if your command lines get cut off, you might not be able to issue new orders due to couriers getting intercepted - At least that'd be a cool later DLC for this if the Game does well. more expansion on things, perhaps an earlier start date so you can do some intelligence gathering pre-war, prepare and finally initiate/respond to the declaration of civil war.
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Norweigan dude: Warfare is expensive
Arms industry and neutral countries: "Uh huh...." **counting stacks of cash**
The real war was Enfield vs Springfield... lol
I love the first boogaloo.
Makes me want to have a second one.
In games.
ah yea
"in games"
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in minecraft
En MeinKraft...
Unironically I would love a game set in a realistic second civil war. Problem is though that the SJWs in the industry would never portray both sides in a neutral way let alone let you choose the “evil” side.
@@ArmedSammy You are gonna see a real second American boogaloo anyway and then they will make games about that so you just gotta wait.
I imagine games like this will get very difficult and very exciting in a few years when machine learning finds it's stride. This is just the kind of genre where it will make all the difference.
Still here, waiting for Arch to review Foxhole, the game where every piece of equipment, every tank, every shell and bunker, is made by the players.
That game is still beyond my comprehension
Waiting for me army friends to teach me since they love the shit out of it
@@commisaryarreck3974 just join the Colonials. We're as close to the Imperial Guard as you get. And we love to teach.
Once you've massacred a human-wave attack with nothing but 30mm explosive shells, no high ever comes close.
Now a Napoleonic campaign on an engine as this with the current ia availables is impossible, still would like them to dev the engine to compensate for the lacking parts in that field.
Love your take on stuff Arch.
Damn… people are done with CA aren’t they? Troy is a mess.
I still haven't seen a similar game as interesting as Warhammer 2, or even medieval 2, so no.
@@williamchristy9463 I did hear that total war shogun 2 got more game mechanics and how the old total war fans are not happy about how the new games .
I myself never tried them to know. This based on what old fans of the original total war say.
@@CoolSs Shogun 2 is the best in the series I still play it regularly the newer ones is so hollow and feels like an empty shell.
@@CoolSs The old fans of Total war (Of which I am arguably included in, having gotten my start around Rome 2 with Medieval 2, and progressing with the games pretty much in order) dislike the new games for certain cut features, but it's fairly hard to argue from an objective standpoint that Warhammer 2 doesn't offer the most faction and unit variety of any game so far.
Personally, that's what I value most in a Total war game, so for me Warhammer 2 remains a flawed masterpiece.
@@williamchristy9463 Thats the thing though, Warhammer, Warhammer 2 are WIDE AS AN OCEAN but DEEP AS A PUDDLE. Sure they a what 12 races now? even more coming in WH3, Sure the game has ALOT of factions with each race having a DIFFRENT unit but......brake it down beyond of the surface and their is not much difference other then STATS and Unit Model for the most part.
Not to mention the POWER CREEP of every NEW lord having some fancy mechanic attached to them that makes old lords kinda obsolete besides their Faction effects and start position. Also the fact that on harder difficulties the AI bonuses are so INSANE most of your unit roaster (namely melee troops) becomes useless.
Don't get me wrong the Warhammer games can be Fun and are, BUT they are not very good Total War games. Their is just so much depth that is missing that is in previous games. Seems like WH3 is going to FINALLY address some of the biggest failings of the 2 previous games though so, maybe third times the charm?
Arch's length bothers Susan.
Hot & bothered. Good.
We need longer barrels. I mean guns. I mean videos on men shooting their load at other men. This isn't working.
Susan is a secret Swede.
I quite like the ai making mistakes, especially if it happens more often with less experienced/talented generals. Though obviously there is a fine line between this and derpy
I think if you review the historical Civil War, you will find quite a lot of derpy AI... I don't hate derpy AI for green troops and poorly organized units, but when the derp is predictable and ahistorical in character, it does break my immersion.
@@captainmaim well put, that's what I meant by the fine line
Such a nice, long review. And I will say it, that its been such a long time since one of Arch's ranty playthroughs, I miss them!
Well, the South's military seniority, trained hunters, and shotgun cavalry allowed them to run roughshod over the Union till the Union ground the South down.
Too bad they(the south) didn't have hundreds of thousands of fresh men coming in every month as immigrants. It would have been a bit more of a fair fight then.
@@shanepatrick4534 It nearly did. The Union broke several times prior to the final year of the war. For example, if President Lincoln lost his second election, then the South would have won.
@@youngthinker1 not really as mcclellan basically ran on I can beat the south better than Lincoln.
@@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068 From what I learn in history class, he promised to take the Union out of the war, after he lost multiple times to Lee. I didn't believe or I guess others believe, he could win if given more authority.
from my understanding there was a particular battle where the south was so confident that they decided not to even bother with tactics, and got thoroughly broken by the union, leading to their eventual defeat.
@Arch Nice video, though I got to admit I was a little bit suprised you decided to utilize your Cavalry like that. I played the game extensively about half a year ago (when it was slightly more buggy) and in all honesty I found Cavalry to be EXTREMELY usefull for the roles it was meant to fullfill (although they could be mauled pretty badly if you overcommitted or underestimated the enemy, but then again that's only natural.)
But yeah, Cavalry, quite usefull for scouting, threatening the enemy's flank, catching singular enemy units out on the march out of formation and sweeping through the enemy's flank if they left themselves exposed and had no reserves left.
I wonder if we'll ever see an actual multiplayer for this game in particular or such games in general... would be most intriguing indeed.
all i learned from this was that the iron warriors and the death korps are fans of lee
It would be great to see a actual campaign play through of this. I love how detailed some of this looks.
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I miss your play-throughs.
beautiful game, if we could bring back civil war general's 2 battle with this 4x grand strategy it would be amazing
Amen, and glory to your house!
Thanks for giving this game some love Arch. I like but I haven't managed to make heads or tails of it yet.
Bump for algorithm. #BreedKibs
Good to see you're playing as the good guys at least
lol the only good guys in that war were the kids doing the dying, and a few generals.
I love you and hate your ideas... The Constitution never gave the feds the authority to wage a Civil War, the South went about it too strident and too brash, and the Northern holier-than-thous made compromise impossible. It's not like the factories in the North weren't chewing up poor people... I'd love to see a comparison of life-outcomes between cotton plantation slaves and textile-factory immigrants.
If only the font style wasnt so small it would make a Tzeentch birdie demon squint in frustration.
Considering that the last good Civil War game I've seen is "North and South" for the NES...yeah, I'm interested!
Would actually love to see you do a full playtrough for this game
Especially with how you actually edit battles down
I'd follow General Arch all the way to Washington DC, and then on to New York and Philadelphia!
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I've wanted a game like this for a long time but focused in the pike and shotte era.
It is a very strange kind of star trek game I must say. But it seems quite good.
By the way, where are the "I think I am funny, I think you should too"? It has been quite a long time
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If your contract ends in 6 months and you are planning to leave then even with war still on, I foresee a bayonet charge in 5 months, 29 days, 27 if February.
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Please do an entire campaign of this... very good entertainment
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I never thought I would watch the entire 1 hour and something long video you've got here but you made it interesting and captivating enough that time just flew by. Considering buying this. The AI issues is the main thing deterring me. Imagine if you could play this as MP.
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you could also recommend to people who want to fund efforts like this. some times these small studios are simply lacking funding to carry out their vision.
Does the game allow to go your own campaign (total freedom) or do you have to follow a set of battles as in Ultimate General?
Is the detail of battle Total War Empire-like or far less detailed?
I'd love a Napolenic edition of this game with focus on individual campaigns, not grand strategy.
It's the best civil war game I've ever played. The most in depth by far.
First graviteam tactics now this, thank you arch for showing such great niche games
A year later. Great ambition and potential. Influence on economy and research greatly improved. Strategic AI is barely passable, but sub-par tactical battle-AI and way to many weird glitches and bugs in unit behaviour, very unfortunately more or less still breaks this game, at least for me. Hoping for the best though in the future!
44:20 there is a game like that named kings orders.
Thanks Arch. Your shorter videos may contain a fat, chub of lore but I appreciate a bit of length some times too.
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Excuse me, is this the same youtuber whom showing off alot of nice Elders scroll mods? :)
Your voice sounds exact same as the other once, really nice accent! :)
BR AN.
Very interesting setting with enough depth this time around, good find.
i would love arch game review Fridays.
I love Arches long videos and i loved Arches let's plays
The Union command was a bit like the Imperial Guard in real life, wasn't it? "We have more men than they have bullets."
No not really. Like not at all. The worst union generals were the ones that didn't try to do anything for fear of losing troops
Like and comment, so longer videos can be a thing!
Hoped for this video since the game was released. And here it is, as good as one could expect. Just one thing for the game, they could make it look a bit smoother in animations. But that is just a minor problem, one could have with it. Rest is... well, great and yet not that much, worth it nevertheless.
Just imagine what a Star Trek economic simulator called Grand Tactician The Civil War would be like.
Plot twist: You only play as Klingons
@@ElGreco15 Qapla'
:50 Maybe next Friday could you do a review on Scarlet Nexus?
All the French needed was a Corsican to lead them to greatness... If the Confederacy had a Norweigan at the top, things would have gone very differently indeed! Give me a rebel yell in your own language, Arch!
yay lenghty arch video, thank arch!
Want this but the peninsular campaign
I hope they add multiplayer. That would fix A.I. issues for now at least
As a guy born in Mount Vernon and lives in Manassas I approve.
Is that Wisky in the Jar playing in the background? thats awesome
Yeah the games sound track is very good unfortunately it can get repetitive because there aren't many tracks
Great review, I've been wondering if this game was worth buying and thanks to you exposing the poor battle AI, I'll wait until they patch it.
Arch picking the side with slave management 🤔 makes you wonder about Scandinavians.
55:00 You are describing something similar to Napoleon's "Grand Battery", so it is a legitimate tactic for the time.
friday review day!
I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel trying to mainain *the voice* for a whole hour. The presentation itself could have been better - more structured, with better explained interdependencies between the gameplay elements.
looks like it could be a fun game to sink some time into, will have to get it next payday.
AI would be better if unit commanders could make independent decitions intelligently and report their actions up the command ladder.
This game would be great for multiplayer battles, where each side has say 5 to 10 players. One player commanding the army and the rest commanding their own divisions or cores.
Cant say I care for the setting or the total war esque combat. But some of the Overworld mechanics of this game are interesting.
Will you cover shadow empire again?
Arch, make a gameplay of this game! Looks awesome...but hard to learn.
Well this looks cool. Thank you for bring this to my attention.
Kinda want this game
My only problem with the game is the AI is pretty dumb, especially with attacking. It just never concentrates its troops right or lines up in such a way as to make flanking hard. On the attack it most off just feeds single brigades at a time into the grinder of your entire line. I don't think I have ever seen it stack up 5-6 brigades and move them all in one concentrated attack and even if it does push a few brigades forward simultaneously, it usually leaves their flanks just swinging in the wind so you can envelop them.
How the hell are you adding rifles to units when you only have like 8 rifles?
This game should have a moral mechanic (I could see artillery men retreating leaving behind their cannons).
It does
Fascinating
Pencils.
these guns are more immersive then any cannon ive seen fired in total war warhammer .... i will n ow cry my self to sleep
If you're wondering, this game is broken as hell. Just when you think you've discovered all the bugs, new ones appear.
Arch need to do review on Combat Mission at some point!
I would love to see this game as a lets play series. Also the friday review thing sounds really good, I actually liked that (and the let's plays with you talking about different subjects) alot. And was one of the reasons I subscribed. (you know, besides the warhammer stuff) Now its mostly political stuff on this channel, which is fine but not the reason I stayed a fan of yours.
Fields of glory for the win!
Game looks really nice hope the devs build upon it.
Looks interesting.
I suggest a particolar game;
Commander ops 2
It's a simulator of strategic warfare during ww2.
I don't know how to exactly explain It, so I think Arch you can do It Better than me. :D
Did they research actual commander's names
I wonder whether the sight of soldiers in the open steadfast and inceassently exchanging musket vollies with an enemy in entrenched positions, would be a situation that warrants a bayonette charge. (which would require well drilled troops ofcourse.)
Bayonet charges are a gamble without a 3000 man brigade with appropriate melee trait with a few exceptions. When your brigade has at least around 500 men more than the enemy or they the enemy is wavering.
Will it it up on Steam when it is on sale - even with imperfect AI, it will be worth the Christmas sale ;)
This is a cool game, very nice art style as well.
arch why the hell do you have some of your artillery wearing other colors on their pants besides red they are known as "red legs" for a reason.
lets play of this might be interesting... lenghty... but interesting...
CMO actually seemed to do a reasonable job with the AI but the much more focused scope of it probably helped there. Shame this amazing genre has such a crippling problem holding it back.
It would be interesting if some of the AI generals had the same personalities as some real life ones. Not sure how much that has been done in games before.
I remember there was a union general that was so cautious he kept refusing to attack when he should have, pissing Lincoln off.
General McClellan
Best ACW game!
Do a lets play, Archie-boy.