Anyone play "historic" strategy games on PC?

[Jammers]

Sid Meir's (sp?) Gettysburg. Excellent

[Johnnie]

Sid meiers took many hours from me. Lovely game

[Augustus_Gaius]

I'm an avid fan of the total wars, i've owned all of them from Rome onwards, here are some screens of shogun 2 I took (some are quite bloody!) :






2 are from the core game and 2 are from the fall of the samurai expansion
(has almost inspired me to collect samurai miniatures )

[Parus Ater]

Shogun runs on quite old systems as well. My last was a 3.2GHz Dual Core with a nasty old Nvidia GT220 GPU. Not all the way to the top but mostly.

[Augustus_Gaius]

Shogun runs on quite old systems as well. My last was a 3.2GHz Dual Core with a nasty old Nvidia GT220 GPU. Not all the way to the top but mostly.

Wierdly runs better than empire on mine shogun 2 mostly on ultra, have to manually turn anti-aliasing on though for some crazy reason whereas empire only runs fluently on high settings and lags on ultra, Not bad for a laptop however!

[Parus Ater]

There is a lot more going on in Empire though. I think also they tidied up Shogun because Empire was famous for need a high spec when it came out for no good reason.

I don't actually play these games btw but my brother does and I've been tasked with souping up his PC (my old system components) to get it playing them well. Quite scary that nothing in that case is running at stock speed
Shogun is pretty soft on the spec, I can even get it going on my laptop with a 315M GPU. This game will run on low end systems, despite what Game Debate says.

[gamester]

i love the total war seires mostly, they are simply fantastic

[Gunfreak]

I played Take Command: Second Manassas for a while which was published by the same people as Europa Universalis. I love these types of games too, but I have yet to find one that has really good AI for handling the unit formations. They always end up wheeling around in some wierd way or getting tangled up - Take Command was one of the better ones in this regard.

And, like the rest of you, time is a big issue. If I get hooked into a strategy game nothing else gets done. I have Napoleon Total War still in its box somewhere, perhaps I should bite the bullet and get it installed before Diablo 3 comes out and takes up all my attention.

Europa Universalis 3 looks like it might be worth trying, but if it's anything like the Civ games that's me out of circulation for a month :p

You should try Scourge of war Gettysburg, same guy that made 2nd manassass, lets you fight gettysburg, in a huge scale, you can choose how many soldiers are in a unit, from 1:20 to 1:10, so one 3d model can be either 20 soldiers or 1 solider, if you choose 1, each regiment got from 75 to 800 soldiers in them, huge fomrations, I played Antitam, with all 150 000 soldiers at once.

I personaly feel total war is to arcade, while I really liked Shogun 2, and Rome I did not like Empire and Napoleon, way to silly and to many historic faults. I just can't play a napoleoinc game, were 10 battalions, 3 cav regiments and 4 cannon is supose to be "borodino"

Instead I play histwar, not as nice a graphic, but much much more realistic, Real battalions, real corps, real huge maps, sevral hundred cannons. Infact the Borodino battle has over 1300 cannons.

[Johnnie]

You should try Scourge of war Gettysburg, same guy that made 2nd manassass, lets you fight gettysburg, in a huge scale, you can choose how many soldiers are in a unit, from 1:20 to 1:10, so one 3d model can be either 20 soldiers or 1 solider, if you choose 1, each regiment got from 75 to 800 soldiers in them, huge fomrations, I played Antitam, with all 150 000 soldiers at once.

I personaly feel total war is to arcade, while I really liked Shogun 2, and Rome I did not like Empire and Napoleon, way to silly and to many historic faults. I just can't play a napoleoinc game, were 10 battalions, 3 cav regiments and 4 cannon is supose to be "borodino"

Instead I play histwar, not as nice a graphic, but much much more realistic, Real battalions, real corps, real huge maps, sevral hundred cannons. Infact the Borodino battle has over 1300 cannons.

Gunfreak Have you tried the Battleground series from Talonsoft? Especially the civil war and Napoleon series?

[Parus Ater]

I got Company of Heroes this weekend on Steam and I'm enjoying it quite a bit despite some seriously shocking US kit on show.