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  1. I would love a game that takes battle simulation to a next level of reality. Picture this: you are Lee at the battle of Gettysburg. Not some god-like creature with satelite overview of the whole battle, but Lee incarnate. Mounting a horse, looking for some vantage point to overlook the battlefield, knowing only what reports/scouts/officers manage to send your way in dispatches, having some maps to look into, but not always accurate, getting a feel of the battle, but not at all being sure if what you've ordered is actually happening! Meeting your staff, listening to their advice, sending messengers, sending reinforcements, setting things in place and then hoping they will play out as you hoped they would. Just like in real life, with all inherit problems of command: some of your underlings will be too slow to act on your orders, some unwilling to comply, some will not have it in them to be another Stonewall etc. You will suffer uncertainty, stress, feel elation, take huge risks based on limited information and try to come to terms with hundreds of wounded and dead soldiers you will see all around knowing you sent them to their doom, just like in real battle. All of this with first person type graphics, take your judgements from what you can see with your binoculars and what you hear from reports/messages. To make it more interesting you can than alternate your role. For example you can jump from Lee to some brigade commander on the field. You will only have a limited vision/scope for orders in regards to whole battle, but you can still have some decisive influence over one particular element of it. From a first person/staff orders perspective you might be the one leading succesfull charge that will break the line on cementary ridge or alternatively witness it's utter failure. Than you can go a step further and alternate from commander to your avarage private. No care in the world for strategy and tactics. You have your weapon and enemy in front of you. Try to brave through Picket charge and see how far you get. If you get shredded by a carnister on the way, well then, game over. Try again! If you try and are lucky enough to sharpshoot Mead's head off his shoulders in the process, you might have just won a whole battle! Such is my ultimate game of all games. Anyone else would want to try such thing?
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