Forge of Freedom 1223 Patch description
From the creators of Crown of Glory come an epic tale of North Vs. South

From the creators of Crown of Glory come an epic tale of North Vs. South. By combining area movement on the grand scale with optional hex based tactical battles when they occur, Forge of Freedom provides something for any serious gamer.

Control economic development, political development with governers and foreign nations, and use your military to win the bloodiest war in US history.

Here are some key features of "Forge of Freedom":

GRAND STRATEGY
· Game covers the entire American Civil War
· Strategic turns represent one-half month
· Organize your brigades into divisions, corps, and armies
· Raise legendary units such as Iron Brigade and Stonewall Brigade...more than 100 in all.
· Control the careers of more than 1,000 generals....every general from the Civil War!
· Politics with your state governors and European powers
· Multiple resource management. Recruit regular units, impress resources, raise the muster, and impose conscription
· Research new tactics and technology in five different areas of research
· Manage troop supply, control unit training, build railroad infrastructure, allocate economic development
· Control brigade details: raise Zouaves, assign balloon scouts, deploy sharpshooters, allocate engineers and pioneers, and much more!
· Maneuver raiders and blockade runners
· Declare emancipation
· Beautiful strategic map: based on 1860's cartography combined with terrain from modern satellite imagery
TACTICAL SIMULATION
· Resolve battles quickly, or fight battles in detail with a turn-based set of rules on a hex map at the brigade level
· You experience all the details of combat: supply, weather, morale, field fortifications, fog-of-war, lines of supply, zones of control, unit formation, panic, fatigue, facing, leadership, time of day, command-and-control, smoke, terrain, sieges, and fortifications are all modeled in depth
· You must adapt your tactics to the evolving capabilities of units and their firearms
· Luxurious terrain derived from thousands of hex images, with more than 2,000 frames of character animation.
· Powerful artificial intelligence will force you to push your troops to the limit
MODES OF PLAY
· Control game complexity: shut off rules you don’t like
· Play against the computer, or play multi-player by LAN, Internet, e-mail, or hot-seat.


Requirements:

· Minimum System Requirements
· Windows 2000 / XP
· 500 MHz CPU
· 1GB RAM (512MB for low animation)
· 32 MB Video Card, DirectX 7 Compatible
· Sound Card (Windows XP Compatible)
· 1GB Hard Drive space
· CD-Rom
· DirectX 7+
· Adobe® Flash® Player 8+ (for intro screen only)