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#1: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: graves101, Location: Ontario

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:47 pm
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I just recently dusted off this old gem and got hooked again. The graphics mean nothing to me when game-play is good. I never got a chance to try H2H with it, though. I was wondering if any dinosaurs still remain who would be interested in trying some multiplayer action.
Surprising, I know, considering the AI is so good.

Eastern Standard time, etc.

I play the AI at the hardest difficulty level, just so you know what to expect.

#2: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: Coldstream, Location: Sul?cin

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:51 am
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there is one man who still fights against Union - that is me :)

I would try to play with You if You want...

I am not very good at this game, but I've got great heart to fight Smile

#3: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: graves101, Location: Ontario

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:18 pm
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For Virginian Glory!

Heh, the big interest for me is because, in Canada, I'm 7 hours from Gettysburg and have toured the battle-sight, makes playing Meier's game 10x more fun. I also spent time in Virgina, where I have family, just a few miles from Manassas and 30 minutes from Washington, DC. So, I'm right in Civil War country. A few people I've talk to tell me they are descended from Civil War soldiers, one was even a historical researcher who wrote a book, interesting dude.

Though I much prefer the southern boys, Lee, Longstreet, Armistead, Pickett, Ramseur, Early, and alot of really good Brigades, I don't mind playing Billy Yank, they still had a lot of good Generals at the battle, Meade, Buford, Reynolds (didn't last, though), Doubleday, Hancock.

#4: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: Coldstream, Location: Sul?cin

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:04 am
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You forget about Stonewall Jackson Smile

and the cavalery commanders: JEB Stuart and Nathan B. Forrest.

#5: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: diggin.robat, Location: Land of the krauts

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:05 pm
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Sid Meier´s Gettysburg was a nice game, also own Antietam. The game engine was used for Waterloo and Austerlitz by another company. Two things I remember:
1. AI tends to march to the VLs with almost all his units in an all out effort.
2. Tried to make a hth session with my home WLAN (and also LAN) and PCs but the game was running not evenly on the guest PC. Any ideas?

cheers

Robat

#6: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: pvt_Grunt, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:03 pm
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I played both Gettysberg and Antietam a few years ago, great games.

#7: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: Coldstream, Location: Sul?cin

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:25 pm
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I never tried to play mulitiplayer in Gettysburg.

I have Waterloo Napoleon's Last Battle, a great game also as the Meier's Gettysburg.

#8: Re: Anyone still play Sid Meiers Gettysburg? Author: graves101, Location: Ontario

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:23 am
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Ah, but this is Gettysburg, Stonewall Jacky-boy is tragically diseased. Wink

I have yet to try the alternate history scenario with Jackson fighting at the battle.

And while Stuart was an excellent cavalry commander throughout the war, his actions during South Mountain/Antietam and Gettysburg were downright shameful... completely failed to keep Lee informed of enemy movements.

I'm still fuzzy on the Union order of battle, playing as them in h2h will be good to learn more.

Yeah, even though my extended tour through the Close Combat series makes Gettysburg's AI look like Deep Blue, the AI has faults. The biggest thing that annoys me is when they bunch up tons of regiments into big masses. The regiments just overlap each other and look totally chaotic. I typically play with the ordered structure that brigadier generals provide.

Any and all willing to play are more than welcome to set up a game or two with me. Hamachi should work, if not, GR now plays with both Gettysburg/Antietam. I also have Antietam, so I am willing to play that as well. Antietam has improvements that I like, but there are also a bunch of features I dislike, so Gettysburg is my preferred of the two.

I'm gonna try to get Waterloo and Austerlitz, so I can also try to get that going in the future, if any are interested.

I'm usually on Hamachi during the day.

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