Civy War: Civil War Battles

Twenty-three battles of the American Civil War, fought on the maps that recorded them.

Civy War is a real-time battle game. You command an army from above: pick your ground, send regiments marching, hold the high ground or storm it, and take (or keep) the field before night falls. Choose the Union or the Confederacy, and three enemy skill levels.

The battles

• The great four: Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Shiloh.
• Historical Campaigns: Gettysburg day by day (including Pickett's Charge), Antietam hour by hour (the Cornfield, the Sunken Road, Burnside's Bridge) and both days at Shiloh, on the period battlefield surveys, with the real order of battle.
• Grant's Campaigns: follow Ulysses S. Grant from Fort Donelson to Appomattox, seven battles on the Army's own maps, with a campaign map where your losses carry from battle to battle.
• Forgotten Fields: Roanoke Island, New Bern, Cedar Mountain and Fort Wagner.
• The Drill Field: a five-minute guided lesson, plus a Field Manual of period tactics.

Features

• Real-time battles with pause: give orders while paused, then speed up to 2x or 4x.
• Terrain that matters: high ground, woods, stone walls, sunken roads, earthworks, creeks and bridges.
• Formations (line, column, skirmishers), morale, rallying, ammunition, fatigue, veterans and green troops, digging in, reinforcements marching on.
• Fog of war: you only see what your men can see.
• After every battle: your losses in men beside the real ones, and "What Really Happened", with Grant in his own words.
• Period maps or clean documentary maps; units as counters or as period map symbols.
• Full mouse and keyboard controls, with every hotkey shown in the game. Everything included, no purchases.

Controls

Mouse

• Left click: select a unit (Shift + click adds or removes)
• Left drag from a unit: draw its line of march
• Left drag on open ground: box-select several units
• Right click: order menu at that spot (march, march in column, advance in line, advance as skirmishers, halt, rally)
• Right or middle drag: move the map
• Mouse wheel: zoom

Keyboard

• Space: begin, pause or resume
• 1 to 9: select a unit (press twice to jump to it); Tab: next unit; Ctrl (Cmd) + A: select all
• C: centre on the selection
• F / R / H: formation, rally, halt
• Arrow keys or W A S D: move the map (hold Shift for faster); Q / E or - / +: zoom
• O: whole field or close-up; T: terrain overlay; Y: map symbols; X: battle speed
• M: sound on or off
• Esc or P: pause menu with every control listed (in full screen, use P)

Touch screens work too (tap, drag, pinch).

Also on iPhone: Civy War on the App Store

From the same maker: Any War: Tactics Across Time, squad battles across four eras.