UG:CW is a fantastic game, yet UG:AOS was trash. Having played this demo already id say its a little bit better than UG:AOS, but no where near the level of gameplay fun, AI smarts etc of CW. I find it frustrating when video game companies develop a good thing then go backwards.

I like to play as the good guys so can we play as the Brits?

Originally posted by Tanagram:

I played Civil War, it was fun, but I really got sick of the fact all my massive manuevering and everything meant nothing at all to the North, it's troops or reinforcements, whereas my losses felt "real" and not like they'd be replenished. After killing a couple million Union troops with no change to the amounts arriving next battle, it didn't feel like I was "winning" the war despite my efforts. Hope this one feels a little different cuz otherwise it was good gameplay

Yeah because the enemy army scales proprotionately with your army so they will always have a bigger army...

Is this going to suck like Ultimate General: Civil War where it doesn't matter a damn what you do to the enemy in the previous battle? Because if so...I'll stick with a superior product like Grand Tactician...

Originally posted by Tanagram:

I played Civil War, it was fun, but I really got sick of the fact all my massive manuevering and everything meant nothing at all to the North, it's troops or reinforcements, whereas my losses felt "real" and not like they'd be replenished. After killing a couple million Union troops with no change to the amounts arriving next battle, it didn't feel like I was "winning" the war despite my efforts. Hope this one feels a little different cuz otherwise it was good gameplay

Same. I liked it at first...but it sucks in the end. I shouldn't be facing an army numerically superior to mine as the North near the end. I should be facing a rag-tag, small but determined foe fighting defense.

I would say...try Grand Tactican: ACW - it actually DOES matter what happens in the previous fights. Units rank up, so do the generals, you need to make supply chains, equip your men and replace any wounded/KIA officers too.

Much better IMO.

For example: My most recent play through, in career (start as regimental and work your way up), once I got a division to command, I swept through rebel force after force. Now, I hold the strongest army of the Union and I sit on richmond with my most elite and send my weaker divisions out chasing down the fleeing rebels.

I would buy it . But since this game is again for Windows only, forget about it.

free palestine

Originally posted by Linebaker:

I would buy it . But since this game is again for Windows only, forget about it.

C70% of all computers run on windows, so consider getting with majority if you want to play games. That said, this looks like it needs a lot of work

Yes Civil war was frustrating as they spouted it as a dynamic campaign, when it was not a dynamic campaign.

the AI cheats like no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tomorrow, do this game is most likely going to be no different unfortunately.

Originally posted by Linebaker:

I would buy it . But since this game is again for Windows only, forget about it.

LoL, please touch some grass. Most Linux or mac users still have a windows PC for this exact reason.
-You don't use a ford focus to go 4x4 offroading do you?
-you dont use a shot gun for silhouette shooting do you?
-you dont where work boots to go running do you?

Tools have a purpose and sometimes you need multiple tools.
-don't get sad because your a one tool fits all mindset is flawed and people are not willing to make a ford focus 4x4.....just, be better.

Originally posted by mx:

UGCW is a great game which I enjoy thoroughly, but many (not all) of the issues the game had were only solved by the J&P mod, a long time after release. It is a little sad that UGCW didn't get more love from the developers. I read the company was sold in 2021 and I hope the new management is devoting more effort to this promising new release. I am looking forward to UGAR (although I was hoping for a Napoleonic Era game or even the 7-years war, I have no idea why the company thought that a comparatively small and uneventful colonial war is the better choice). But sure, lets load the muskets and charge

I have watched now some of the early access videos on youtube. Generally it looks like they tried to make UGCW more like total war:
1. Historical battles seem to have disappeared (other than the first battle)
2. Instead you capture towns now and build buildings in them. I find it hard to imagine that george washington was going from town to town as an architect.
3. you become a commodity trader, selling all sorts of stuff from copper to textiles. again, I am not sure thats what washington did.
4. The excellent wounded/missing scheme from the UGCW J&P mod seems to be nonexistent, so your casualties are all presumed dead as far as i understand
5. have yet to understand why the army commander would be in charge of the Navy, international diplomacy and research.
6. The variety of equipment UGCW offered seems to be less in UGAR, both for muskets and artillery.
7. the death box issues UGCW had seem to continue to exist in UGAR. Armies can have huge casualties, the simple idea to let them withdraw or shatter BEFORE they reach 80-90% casualties doesn't seem to have made it into UGAR.

there are a number of other observations but i think the list would be too long...
Overall it seems to be an okay game but certainly not the evolutionary leap from UGCW I had hoped for.

None of your games are on Geforce Now. This is a mistake, I for one will not buy any game anymore unless it is on Gforce now. It is easy to get on GFN.

Originally posted by Olive_Sava:

This is very happy news.
I was just thinking of playing the Ultimate General series again.
There are people in Japan who are looking forward to this new work.

yes I am japanese

Originally posted by SnaggingWater65:

Originally posted by Linebaker:

I would buy it . But since this game is again for Windows only, forget about it.

LoL, please touch some grass. Most Linux or mac users still have a windows PC for this exact reason.
-You don't use a ford focus to go 4x4 offroading do you?
-you dont use a shot gun for silhouette shooting do you?
-you dont where work boots to go running do you?

Tools have a purpose and sometimes you need multiple tools.
-don't get sad because your a one tool fits all mindset is flawed and people are not willing to make a ford focus 4x4.....just, be better.

I love my Mac Studio with 3 Studio Screens. So no Windows/Linux.

Newports in the wrong place, 0/10 too little water

Sweet, these games are the best engine, you guys have made a great series.
I love being able to tweak and re-arm my army in the pre-battle screen. The more customization there the better that's where you guys capture the atmospherics and feel of army command much better than most games. Hard choices between weapons/veterans/army size vs composition. love it.

Can the campaigns please get a little more open ended? Something like Close Combat Invasion Normandy/ or 3 battle of the bulge with a campaign map where you can move the Army where you want to around the colonies to simulate Washington's hard choices to keep the Continental Army alive. That was Civil Wars bottleneck the outcomes of battles did not change the course of the campaign really, and just affected your economy.

Also if there are going to be rare weapons can you make enough available to actually use them please? Same problem, to use a high quality or repeating or Henry rifle to arm a regiment in UGCW meant using a dangerous game trainer that can crash the computer. I know there were barely any in real life but after beating the campaign it was nice to play with like all 3 inch Ordnance rifles or all repeating rifle regiments etc. I like to sandbox so please just give me an editor, and turn off achievements if I feel like cheating/experimenting.

Can you make uniforms quality a feature in this game similar to weapons in UGCW, like do the soldiers have shoes? are they warm enough? Seems like the smaller size of the revolutionary Armies means we need a lot more granularity in the troop management to get a cool effect. Can we elite units more than 3 stars, like really lean into the elite troops system since they will probably always be poorly armed. I played something like 600 hours in UGCW and 60+ tinkering around in Dreadnoughts (like to just make custom ships and battles in that for a couple hours of fun), tragically Age of Sail I found the ship mechanics too hard, I only wanted to play the land battles and skip the sea action it was slow and tedious for me with little payoff.

Can't wait to see this iteration. I will be buying.