On the higher difficulty levels, you'll won't have time to issue all the orders you would like, and you will have to prioritize, while on the lower levels you'll have plenty of time to come up with a good strategy. But even though it's turnbased, you don't have time to sit back and relax, carefully pondering what to do next, since there is a time limit.
As noted above the campaign game is turnbased, you give your orders by night and they are carried out by day. How many victory points you need depends on the difficulty setting. You gain victory points by capturing cities, both those of your opponent and those who start out as neutral. Your goal in the campaign mode is to amass victory points, and when you have enough, you win. All your commanders come from your commander pool, which consists entirely of historical commanders, each with different strenghts and weaknesses, and putting the right man in charge can mean the difference between victory and defeat. You also have the choice to replace commanders as you see fit and you can create new armies and brigades if you have built enough divisions to do it. As in the battle mode, you can attach or detach your divisions and brigades from their commanders, so you have a choice of spreading your armies out to cover more ground or assembling them in one place to strengthen them. From here you get to decide what your cities produce and where your armies and ships go. The majority of the campaign takes place on the strategic map screen, which shows a map of the eastern part of the united states. The campaign mode is where the game really gets interesting, since you now have control over your nation and not just your army. Because of this, it is very easy to lose control of what is going on, and it generally ends in a lot of confusion (not to mention defeat).
Unfortunately the battles take place in realtime, and the clock ticks fast, which means you won't have time to command a lot of individual divisions around if your army is large. Having them all attached gathers them around you commander and enables you to move them all at once, but detaching them gives you much more tactical flexibility. You can choose to attach or detach divisions from the command chain as you see fit.
Unfortunately the scenario mode isn't much to speak of, since it only includes four battles (Bull Run, Wilson Creek, Mill Spings and Shiloh), and on top of that the battles really aren't that interesting Your divisions are represented by banners on the map, unless you zoom all the way in, in which case you'll be presented with ugly animations. There are nine different realism factors, with five different settings each, so in essense you have 45 different difficulty levels to choose from. After choosing what kind of game you want, you'll be taken to the realism screen, where you can set the difficulty/realism for the game. The game has both a campaign mode, where you get to lead the side of your choice to victory, and a scenario mode in which you can fight individual, tactical battles. This turn-based strategy game was released in 1995 by Empire Interactive Entertainment, and depicts the entire American civil war.
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