Any good Civil War PC games out there?

CaptBones · 10-23-13, 07:43 PM

What a website/forum! Even a clunky old guy with screwball questions can get real answers here, from nice people, instead of the kind of snot-nosed, holier-than-thou, whatdya mean you don't like so-and-so, "Baloney-Sausage" that you run into on other, "gamer", sites/forums.

Anyway...Narko/akula65: THANK YOU...sometime last year, I ran across the older AGEAOD titles somewhere, but could not find anything recently (mostly because I didn't spell it correctly...duh!). The links especially are a great help...I didn't know they had released CW II and it looks like just what I've been hoping to find...THANK YOU again!

Dread Knot: I guess my answer would be "yes".

My "ideal" CW game would present the war as a whole, played as several of the key Campaigns in the East and West; including both "generic battles" and drop-in battles in the campaigns, somewhat like Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War. Yeah...I know there are Civil War Mods for those games and there are new/revised/upgraded versions of those mods in development, but the existing mods are really buggy (the modders even admit that and warn you) and the new and improved versions have been in development for a l-o-n-g time and I'm just tired of waiting. Plus, the need to install those mods to play a CW campaign/battle and then to have to uninstall the entire mod in order to go back to play the "vanilla" game is not at all appealing (yes, I have those two games via Steam...for better or worse)...I can see that process turning into a "train wreck."

Hinrich Schwab: Good to see you over on this forum; thanks for the offer to help. If I could get TC2M to work it would be great. I have an Alienware/Area 51; i7 Quad Core Processor (3.2GHz/8MB cache); Win 7 (64Bit) Home Premium OS; 12GB DDR3 1333MHz Triple Channel RAM; Dual 1GB GDDR5 GTX 460 - SLI Enabled Video Cards; (2) 1TB SATA 3Gb/s, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache, RAID 1 HDDs; Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio; Dell U3011 Monitor. TC2M always starts/runs in Windowed mode with the cursor "disappearing" behind the game window; I could never get beyond selecting a button/bar in the main menu. After that, it was a guessing game to try to figure out where the cursor was, or wasn't. The opening theme music also just runs on and on and on and never stops, even after I close the game window/exit the game. I tried a couple of "fixes" suggested on the old Paradox forum, but none worked, or even made any difference for that matter. If you've got any ideas, I'd very much appreciate giving them a try...thanks again, in advance.

And thank you, again, to all of you...great guys!

10-23-13, 07:43 PM	#7
CaptBones The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Rockton, IL Posts: 281 Downloads: 208 Uploads: 0	You guys are the BEST!!!! What a website/forum! Even a clunky old guy with screwball questions can get real answers here, from nice people, instead of the kind of snot-nosed, holier-than-thou, whatdya mean you don't like so-and-so, "Baloney-Sausage" that you run into on other, "gamer", sites/forums. Anyway...Narko/akula65: THANK YOU...sometime last year, I ran across the older AGEAOD titles somewhere, but could not find anything recently (mostly because I didn't spell it correctly...duh!). The links especially are a great help...I didn't know they had released CW II and it looks like just what I've been hoping to find...THANK YOU again! Dread Knot: I guess my answer would be "yes". My "ideal" CW game would present the war as a whole, played as several of the key Campaigns in the East and West; including both "generic battles" and drop-in battles in the campaigns, somewhat like Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War. Yeah...I know there are Civil War Mods for those games and there are new/revised/upgraded versions of those mods in development, but the existing mods are really buggy (the modders even admit that and warn you) and the new and improved versions have been in development for a l-o-n-g time and I'm just tired of waiting. Plus, the need to install those mods to play a CW campaign/battle and then to have to uninstall the entire mod in order to go back to play the "vanilla" game is not at all appealing (yes, I have those two games via Steam...for better or worse)...I can see that process turning into a "train wreck." Hinrich Schwab: Good to see you over on this forum; thanks for the offer to help. If I could get TC2M to work it would be great. I have an Alienware/Area 51; i7 Quad Core Processor (3.2GHz/8MB cache); Win 7 (64Bit) Home Premium OS; 12GB DDR3 1333MHz Triple Channel RAM; Dual 1GB GDDR5 GTX 460 - SLI Enabled Video Cards; (2) 1TB SATA 3Gb/s, 7200RPM, 32MB Cache, RAID 1 HDDs; Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio; Dell U3011 Monitor. TC2M always starts/runs in Windowed mode with the cursor "disappearing" behind the game window; I could never get beyond selecting a button/bar in the main menu. After that, it was a guessing game to try to figure out where the cursor was, or wasn't. The opening theme music also just runs on and on and on and never stops, even after I close the game window/exit the game. I tried a couple of "fixes" suggested on the old Paradox forum, but none worked, or even made any difference for that matter. If you've got any ideas, I'd very much appreciate giving them a try...thanks again, in advance. And thank you, again, to all of you...great guys!