SGS Battle for: Gettysburg news & patch notes

Thank you all for your feedback and comments on the game, as well as for reporting various bugs. Some issues were resolved during the general engine update, while others specific to SGS Gettysburg have been fixed here:

- Reinforcement schedule: The Union II Corps should now enter the game normally (and in full!).

- Certain incorrectly calibrated "tactical" cards should now work properly. Please note that using them in combat during the tactical round requires an active leader to be present in the battle.

- Minor localization fixes across various languages ​​(supported languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, and Chinese).

- Night time movement restrictions now also apply to the early light of dawn (turns 16 & 17, 32 & 33). Consequently, it is normal to be unable to engage the enemy during these turns.

- New alternative campaign scenario, to be tested as a variation of the standard game: only leaders can attack, and units can no longer take cover except using “trench” tokens. This is intended to offer players an alternative that is slightly less dynamic but perhaps more characteristic of the relative slowness of Civil War battles. Every attack must now be carefully planned and organized. NORMAL GAME OR “COMMANDER BATTLE”—THE CHOICE IS YOURS!

- Thanks to the recent update to the SGS engine (version 1.7), tooltips have been added to the counters of certain units, providing cosmetic or practical information about the role of some of them. Just hover your mouse over them!

- Trenches have been slightly weakened. Many players complained about their near-indestructible nature. They no longer absorb additional damage but remain the last units in the area to be hit, meaning you must rout or destroy all others before taking them down.

- The AI settings have been revised to improve the computer’s behavior in single-player mode, particularly to limit “suicide” attacks by isolated artillery.

- Misunderstood by some players, the resupply phase is now called the command phase: players must maintain lines of communication to prevent their troops, isolated from the rest of the army, from beginning to fall apart.

- Adjustment to the campaign’s initial deployment: General Buford now has some artillery to delay the Confederate vanguard, as in reality.

- A few minor adjustments to the troop arrival schedule.

- You can now switch to NATO counters in the options menu. This feature was not working at launch.

After months of thorough effforts by Vincent Bernard, the game is now releasing for you to discover and, hopefully, enjoy this rendition of one of the most important battles of the US Civil War.

The Battle

SGS Battle for Gettysburg covers the complete battle of Gettysburg between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (General Lee, with 75,000 men and 250 guns) and union Army of the Potomac (General Meade, with 90,000 men and 360 guns) from July 1 July 3, 1863, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

The Author

The game is entirely designed by Vincent Bernard, a French military historian specialist of the American Civil War, and author of many books on the subject, including a complete history of the war regarded as authoritative, a monography on the battle of Gettysburg itself and an extensive biography of general Robert E. Lee.

The Content

The games comes with 2 short scenarios (6-8 turns), a small one (12 turns), a mid-length campaign (24 turns) and the whole 3-days battle (47 turns).

Enjoy!