{"id":938,"date":"2008-04-29T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/the-civil-war-again\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T17:04:48","slug":"the-civil-war-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/29\/the-civil-war-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been something of a resurgence in American Civil War strategy games lately, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCDV-Software-Entertainment-American-Civil%2Fdp%2FB00125UHJ6%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1209488401%26sr%3D8-3&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">AgeOD<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FForge-of-Freedom%2Fdp%2FB000NI14OA%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dvideogames%26qid%3D1209488494%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Western Civ<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> both delivering very different visions of the conflict in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Now Gary Grigsby is turning his eyes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/news.asp?nid=504\">War Between The States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taking gamers back to the American Civil War, Gary Grigsby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s War Between the States allows players to experience the trials and tribulations of the role of commander-in-chief for either side.  Historically accurate, detailed and finely balanced for realistic gameplay, War Between the States is also easy to play and does not take months to finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does not takes months to finish? Are they sure this is a Grigsby game?<\/p>\n<p>The maps don&#8217;t look very interesting and there seems to be a lot going on in those screenshots. But the Civil War works as a setting for a wargame because both sides are similar in equipment but different in capabilities; one side needs to end it quickly, the other needs to drag it into a war of attrition. The leadership stuff sounds like it came straight from the AgeOD playbook, but I&#8217;m sure Grigsby will put his own spin on it.<\/p>\n<p>No word from Matrix Games on a release date, but I&#8217;m still waiting for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixgames.com\/games\/game.asp?gid=349\">Lock &#8216;n Load<\/a><\/em> in any case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been something of a resurgence in American Civil War strategy games lately, with AgeOD and Western Civ both delivering very different visions of the conflict in recent years. Now Gary Grigsby is turning his eyes to the War Between The States. Taking gamers back to the American Civil War, Gary Grigsby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s War Between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,3,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-f8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}