Setting: the game covers all of the USA, from the Eastern seaboard to the Rockies, from 1861 to 1865. Mexico and the Northern Caribbean are also in
Game map is divided into more than 3,000 regions, with a variety of terrain, climates and development level.
Scenarios: 2 tutorial and 5 main scenarios from Shiloh all the way up to the Grand Campaign.
Historical leaders: Over 400 historical leaders each rated on their abilities and over 1,000 different types of units from sharpshooters to cavalry and artillery and even Ironclads!
Production: Control your nations spending on the military without worrying about micro managing the economy.
Regional Decision Cards: The game has an innovative card system that lets you trigger events such as Indian raids and partisans attacks, which used wisely can affect the flow of a campaign.
Detailed game model includes features such as Weather, Attrition, Supply and Fog of War
Historical Event are triggered throughout the game giving the player crucial decision points. These cover anything from local uprising to foreign intervention.
Battlefield Tactics allow the player to make decisions that can turn the tide of battle.
Sieges and Naval warfare are all covered in detail in the game.
Chain of Command allows units to be organized in to brigades, division, corps and armies and leaders put in command of them.
Navigable rivers which played a crucial role during the Civil War are represented.
Scenario list
Two Tutorials scenarios
1861 First Manassas (Battle of Bull Run)
1862 Shiloh
1862 Sibley (New Mexico Campaign)
1861-1865 Our Hearts were Touched with Fire April 1861 scenario (THE multi-theater Grand Campaign)
1861-1865 The Blue and the Gray July 1861 scenario (accelerated start campaign)
