Comments on: Mosby’s Confederacy In Motion And Not In Motion

By: Grandstone

Grandstone — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:02:34 +0000

Anyone remember the Sid Meier Civil War games? Those were awesome, and yet I can’t remember if I’ve ever gotten them to run properly on Vista.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:10 +0000

It looks more like an RPG than a realistic Civil War battle simulator, anyway (which has been done by Take Command and others).

By: iainl

iainl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:45:45 +0000

Rather than playing like “a wargame written by people who haven’t played many wargames” as Sma suggests, it looks remarkably like a wargame written by people who have played an awful lot of the first three Total War games.

By: Pace

Pace — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:50:42 +0000

Ah, thanks Greyface. Also, I found this interesting tidbit: “”Pangolin” is a Malaysian word for “rolling up into a ball”" Fascinating.

By: Greyface

Greyface — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:18:00 +0000

@ Pace

The Pangolin reference is to the upcoming King’s Bounty expansion/sequel. There is a new race called Pangolin. One can only hope they’re the same.

By: Real Horrorshow

Real Horrorshow — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:39:47 +0000

This game seems pretty pointless when there’s probably going to be a Civil War mod 1 month after Empire: Total War is released. I’ll save my desire to exterminate rebel scum until then.

By: Dizet Sma

Dizet Sma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:42 +0000

I might just dig out my copy of Age Of Rifles to get into the musket mindset :o)

By: cheeba

cheeba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:21:00 +0000

Maybe I’m just favourably disposed to this as the setting and fiddly little sprites vaguely remind me of the surprisingly good Take Command games. Even though they seem nothing alike gameplay-wise.

By: Dizet Sma

Dizet Sma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:09:44 +0000

Sadly, cheeba, I’ve played lots of wargames and the lack of animation is the least of my worries about this one.

By: cheeba

cheeba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:50:30 +0000

@Dizet: if you think that looks shoddy, you really can’t have played many wargames. Half the time you’re lucky if anything animates at all.

I’m cautiously optimistic about this. Squad-based strategy has been sorely lacking of late, and at this point I’ll take what I can get, frankly. Really wish it was turn-based, but what the hey.

By: Dizet Sma

Dizet Sma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:19:48 +0000

Gosh, that video looked shite!

That looks to be a wargame written by people who haven’t played many wargames – badly animated sprites standing out in the open trading shots with a badly animated cavalry soldier.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:04 +0000

the smoke particles feel like will use the 40% of the GPU horsepower, sadly unoptimized.

i know is a strategy game, but is a element I can understand, and feel amateurist.

other than that, I don’t know nothing about the game, If RPS is doing a article about it, has to have something special or interesting. What is that? :-)