Ambitious strategy game project Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) will be released to Steam Early Access on August 21 Grand Tactician: The Civil War is a tactical combat A real-time grand strategy game: The Civil War is like combining the epic strategy of the Europa Universalis with the real-time battles of the Total War series.

Players of GT: The Civil War manage one of two combat opponents in the game, mustering troops, managing officers and logistics, and deploying them on the battlefield. Multi-day battles are an important feature, like Gettysburg in history, where the actions of engineers and the arrival of reinforcements between days of battle can turn the tide.

There is a detailed command infrastructure, and officers may like or dislike each other or become rivals, causing their units to fail to coordinate well or fight to gain an advantage over their opponents on the battlefield. There are also optional rules for officers disobeying orders and for couriers who carry orders from the command post to the officer's position.

The developers have also already released a post-launch roadmap. They will first work on saving and loading during combat, then give the campaign AI a passing grade. After that, new maps, campaign start dates, tutorials, etc. will be added.

You can learn more about Grand Tactician: you can also find a list of pre-releases on Steam.GT: The Civil War follows the 2015 release of The Seven Years War (1756-1763), which developer It is the second game by Oliver Keppelmüller.