Worth it at sale price?

[Mace]

Currently £18 for me, is it worth it at this price. I ask because I keep reading on here that it has problems. If I'm not a particularly hardcore player will I be bothered by the shortcomings.

[crono900]

I would say if your looking for a fun Civil War RTS, then yes, I would recommend it. There is a learning curve at the start, but once you understand it's features and how it works, it is quite enjoyable. This game has so much potential. It can also be easily modded to increase it's play-ability (Which many other players here and on the Discord are willing to help). There are some issues but nothing truly game breaking. Maybe just immersion breaking at worst. Most issues can be fixed with a save and reload.

For me personally I've enjoyed the game and I'm sure many others have as well. Plus, if it is on sale then all the better for purchase.

[Didz]

I've got 386 hours of gameplay out of it so far and I'm still on my first campaign, so it's certainly been worth it for me.

[Lester Green]

I played tf out of it but from what ive read theyre no longer gonna be working on it

[Nats]

Its a really good strategy game and real time wargame - better than all the Total War games but quite similar except no turns. The enemy can be very tricky to beat. The best strategy game I have and I continue to come back to it after many years.

I have just started playing the Confederates after a long time away, and on very hard I am dealing with 3-4 20k armies (I am struggling to get a couple of 15k) so having to retreat already. First battle at Manassas, I thought I had the enemy stuck in a tight front to find that half their army appeared on my flank - very nice tactics to see.

Lost the battle but inflicted more casualties.

The battles can drag out for days but I like that its very realistic.

I would say this game is very much worth £35.

[Barticus]

at sale price yes
but it will always have some unfinished stupid to it

[Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero]

Honestly for $18 I think it's a great price.

You will encounter bugs and other UI quirks, game play quirks, sometimes annoying collision or pathfinding issues etc even pretty early on in a play through, which I think are kind of the bulk of things most of us have grievances and annoyances with the game

But even all that said, it's still a great gunpowder era strategy. I think the super lengthy game 'AGEOD Civil War II' is generally considered a really 'in depth' civil war game, if you can get past the abstractions that are turn based games.

This game by comparison I'd argue represents a lot of the same smaller events and so on that as a Canadian I'd not really known about the Civil War and still does a great job capturing the atmosphere of this era of industrialization, warfare, etc

I really enjoyed what I played, even if I still put the game down here and there because sometimes you just run into an annoying bug or something that makes you want to not play - still, the battles and so on are fun enough that eventually you'll come back if you like that kind of game

I think the scale of the game is also great, with campaign options for specifically the east or west campaigns or full campaign map of United States basically from Texas / Kansas etc east, with some representation of other places like Mexico, British North america, etc (though unlike AGEOD Civil War 2 I don't know if European powers or other nations might intervene lol)

Grand Tactician also has fairly accessible scenario value editing because lots of the scenario options are in just plaintext files that are easy enough to adjust, lots of players make changes to things like morale, retreat distances and so on to compensate for the more annoying parts of the vanilla game lol

[crono900]

Originally posted by Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero:

Honestly for $18 I think it's a great price.

That was £18 BPS (British Pound Sterling), which comes to $22.31 USD (United States Dollar)... US sale price is $22.49.

Still Great price.

[Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero]

Oh yea, I just don't know the shortcut for making the pound symbol, lol, I figured OP would still be able to decipher it. It's about $25 CAD for me (I'm pretty sure when I'd bought it it was likely 40-somethin') but I think that's still a great price for a finished game on sale, especially for how expensive lots of other early access / etc might tend to be, and it's a game with hours of enjoyment to be had if you enjoy those total-war style games with management aspects, battle aspects, etc.

Not without it's issues obviously but I think folks general consensus is still the game is over all good and worth picking up, especially for a price like that

[crono900]

Originally posted by Ole "Slim Jolo" the Hobo Hero:

To be honest, I too didn't know the shortcut for the £ symbol. When I posted it above, I just copied and pasted it from the op. Now though, I looked it up.

If your keyboard has a US layout, it won’t have a dedicated key for the pound sterling symbol. To type it, hold down the Alt key, then press 0 + 1 + 6 + 3 then release the Alt key.
(Type the numbers one after the other, without holding them down. For this key combination to work, you need to use the number pad with NumLock enabled.)

They say, 'You should learn something new every day', and I just did.

[Wagonmaker]

do not buy this game the devs have given up on it, and there going to make more trash.

[A_P_Hill]

Worth it at any price.

[Bibb]

I would happily pay full price, if the game was ever finished and worth buying in the first place. That is just my opinion, and I played the game a lot.

[A_P_Hill]

take it from a guy with 1466 hours in game. put up with the shortcomings but well worth it at any price.