Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War, 1861-1865 is the newest game from Western Civilization Software that combines grand strategy with battlefield tactics in one game. Forge of Freedom puts you in command at every level of the Civil War, from the mobilization of the resources of the nation to the control of individual brigades during the fury of battle. Relive the days of America’s greatest struggle: a time of blood, smoke, and glory.
GRAND STRATEGY
• Game covers the entire American Civil War
• Strategic turns represent one-half month
• Organize your brigades into divisions, corps, and armies
• Raise legendary units such as Iron Brigade
and Stonewall Brigade...more than 100 in all.
• Control the careers of more than 1,000 generals....every general from
the Civil War!
• Politics with your state governors and European powers
• Multiple resource management. Recruit regular units, impress resources,
raise the muster, and impose conscription
• Research new tactics and technology in five different areas of research
• Manage troop supply, control unit training, build railroad infrastructure,
allocate economic development
• Control brigade details: raise Zouaves, assign balloon scouts, deploy
sharpshooters, allocate engineers and pioneers, and much more!
• Maneuver raiders and blockade runners
• Declare emancipation
• Beautiful strategic map: based on 1860's cartography combined with terrain
from modern satellite imagery
TACTICAL SIMULATION
• Resolve battles quickly, or fight battles
in detail with a turn-based set of rules on a hex map at the brigade level
• You experience all the details of combat: supply, weather, morale, field
fortifications, fog-of-war, lines of supply, zones of control, unit formation,
panic, fatigue, facing, leadership, time of day, command-and-control, smoke,
terrain, sieges, and fortifications are all modeled in depth
• You must adapt your tactics to the evolving capabilities of units and
their firearms
• Luxurious terrain derived from thousands of hex images, with more than
2,000 frames of character animation.
• Powerful artificial intelligence will force you to push your troops to
the limit
MODES OF PLAY
• Control game complexity: shut off rules you don’t like
• Play against the computer, or play multi-player by LAN, Internet, e-mail,
or hot-seat.
FORGE OF FREEDOM
will be available in Fall of 2006
from Matrix Games. Forge of Freedom is based
on the
engine for Crown of Glory, which won Wargamer.com’s
Bronze Award, War Historical’s Game of the Year for 2005,
and Gamers Hall’s Silver Award.