Congratulations @Dan_Rasmussen!
Downloaded and purchased although my first real playthrough will have to wait until life settles down a bit.
I know all our fellow history nerds are going to love the attention to detail you put into this game. I also know the demo felt like a much longer game than suggested. Proof that the idol of word count is a false god. May you receive the recognition you deserve.
Thanks, everyone! Really appreciate your support and kind words about my game.
i was curious the captain of those shattered units that we have the chance to pull together into a company what happens to them? Will we get a chance to encounter them in follow up game? I noticed they were there in stats at one point but then disappear from it once a certain choice was made. Loved the game and nothing jumps out at me wrong from the first pass ive done congrats.
I really like this game, and congratulations.
Those who aren’t killed or injured would likely return to their units after the battle. It’s a way to bolster your numbers temporarily, but at the end of the battle I had to remove them to calculate unit casualties. No particular intention to bring them back.. And thanks for your continued support!
i did come across something further and not quite sure what i would classify it as when taking the path of falling back or staying at henryhouse hill. Falling back we get the option to take entire regiment or leaving the second battalion at the hill. Choosing to leave the second battalion there it seems the choice is treated by the follow up as entire regiment gets out with minmal loss based off our previous choices i made. Not sure if its a thing but found it worth mentioning. No worries i love history and the civil war history so defintly allways game for such games. 
That may actually be a mistake, though I thought I programmed a few casualties in there. I’ll check later when I’m at my computer.
Sounds like a plan if it helps over all if i recall correctly i ended up with i think was 102 total casualties tops maybe 92 from the entire battle.
Congratulations
Can you also give me a hint to obtain the gold medal? I already play it, is very fun to retry and play it again. But idk how to get the achievement
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’ll just post the hints here with a spoiler blur.
So the battle outcome is calculated by a collective score of your choices. There’s a total score of 12, and you get the gold medal outcome if you score 10 or higher. There are a few different ways to achieve it since it’s triggered by a single variable. I’ll tell you the way I sort of imagined as the “perfect” play-through.
In the first battle, choose the attack on the right for 2 points. In the second part, make sure to deploy skirmishers to the south. Then you have to save the artillery on Henry Hill from the blue-coated Confederates. And when Willcox is captured, you have to rescue him to be able to influence the end of the battle.
After that you get to choose your strategy for the end of the battle. Essentially, I think you have to cover the flank and rescue the shattered units. I’d say deploy one battalion to rescue those units and take the rest of your troops to defend the southern flank. In that battle, hold for a bit, then retreat. I think you can also stay and fight until you are captured and still get the gold outcome.
As I said, you don’t have to do everything exactly like this to get the medal. But, if you follow this, you should get it.
Logged back in to my account to say this is awesome. I’ve always wanted a Civil War story! Well done!
Another way, is to tell Willcox to give up Henry Hill and move back the scattered unit (I did it few minutes ago, I deployed my entire reggiment, told them to be “gentle” evacuated even the injured, and later I pick the option “identify the unit”). It’s a bit boring, inglorious but you get the job done, in exchange for very little casualty. Even if my Canon path is attempting to defend Henry Hill with one battalion, and use the other to move back the scattered unit (in this rotue i get the second best army outcome).
PS. Of course all of this mean I didn’t deploy the skirmisher to look at the southern roads, and I instead rallied some soldiers from the reggiment, of the deceased colonel Farnham.
Yep, I forgot you could do it without the south skirmishers. If you go that route, you get a bonus point for not shooting your allies, as you said.
I have a certain personal attachment to the 2nd Wisconsin, who later formed part of the famous Iron Brigade. I had at least four ancestors who served in the 7th Wisconsin, also in the Iron Brigade. In real life, the 2nd went forward as I portrayed, and they were shot by both sides since their state militia uniforms were gray, forcing them to retreat.
Little bit of trivia, the song “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was written after being inspired by watching the 2nd Wisconsin drilling in DC.