I love this game. Being an amateur Gettysburg aficionado, I’ve been waiting for it for 2 years now. I’ve played most of the first day and I’d rather play this game than scour pages of a message board so I haven’t read all the posts here to see if these two issues I’m having were already addressed.
1. Why is it so dark in general, but, especially, when I pause? This is ruining my fun as I’m getting on in years and my vision is not so great anymore. I can’t even pause and scan the beautiful map to look over the entire battlefield without squinting and feeling like I’m in a dark room reading a book with the light of fireflies. I now play it with my ipad cranked up to maximum brightness so I can clearly see some of the darker map elements, which takes its toll on the battery and it still looks as if huge cumulous clouds are casting shadows over the fields.
2. Why can’t I play my favorite parts of the battle from the start? I would have loved to jump into day 2 at around 3-4 PM or so from the start. This is a very unwelcome trend in games, lately, that has actually turned me off several games (eg, pike and shot) because I have to follow the designer’s particular approach (it feels like passing a test) rather than explore the entire game that I have already paid for.
Other than that, this game is absolutely beautiful with that particular “feel” I’ve been looking for in a Gettysburg game for decades. When I first saw a demo a year or so ago, I thought that that’s how I would design a Gettysburg game—not with crisp counters or solid blocks moving forward but with a mobs of soldiers heading at breakneck speed from order to chaos and back to order.
I also want to thank you for publishing this for ipad. We all have our favorite battles (and gaming platforms) and we all try to imagine how they might have transpired. This game nails it, when it comes to Gettysburg, for me.
