Last updated on June 1st, 2023 at 07:50 pm
Civil War: Gettysburg
Civil War: Gettysburg is one of the best $4.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by HexWar Games Ltd, Civil War: Gettysburg is a Board game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 18th December 2014 with the latest update 10th December 2021
Whether you are a fan of Board, Entertainment, or Strategy games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
11 people have rated 3.0.3
You can download the game Civil War: Gettysburg from APP STORE.
Description
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from 1st to 3rd July 1863, in Pennsylvania. The battle resulted the largest number of casualties in any battle of the entire war, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. Over three days General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated the Confederate army of General Robert E. Lee’s, ending Confederate attempts to invade the North.
The first day ended with the Confederates in control of the town of Gettysburg but they had failed to push on to take the high ground. Day two was a day of a series of actions at both ends of the battlefield at Culp’s Hill and Little Round Top. Day three ended with the disaster of Pickett’s Charge.
The game also covers other of smaller engagements in the run up to the greatest battle of the war.
Key Game Features:
- Historically accurate game play.
- Three day ‘battle’ game.
- ‘Twilight’ scenario covering the key actions from the 2nd and 3rd day of the battle.
- Three massive one-day scenarios for each of the three days.
- Five scenarios covering the battles of:
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Thoroughfare Gap -
Furr Farm - Goose Creek
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Ewell's Chapel -
Marsh Cree - Little Round Top
- Accurate Civil War Units;
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8 different types of artillery. -
5 different types of cavalry (mounted & dismounted). - 3 different types of infantry.
- Four categories of unit quality.
- Four categories of generals.
- Different types of formations.
- Detailed combat analysis.
- In-depth reference charts.
- Advanced tactical features including:
- Day and Night.
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Map zoom. -
Strategic movement. -
Flank attacks. - Ammo.
- Hours of Gameplay.
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Updated on 10th December 2021
Fix: Some sound effects not playing following the last update.
Civil War: Gettysburg Reviews
If you choose the confederate side and end beating the union the game will stop allowing your men to move or attack the union. And if you start conquering the union the game will be stopped and union will be declared to have defeated you. Great idea for a game if it was fair.
If you choose the confederate side and are beating the union the game will stop allowing your men to move or attack the union. And if you start wiping out the union the game will be stopped and union will be declared to have defeated you. Great idea for a game if it was fair, doesnt matter if wiped out almost all of the union and its generals you still lose, lol.
Unlike other games in this series, this game continually freezes. Wont allow a restart unless we reboot our iPad ( OS ver. 14.7.1). Deleted and reinstalled from the App Store, still locks up. Now it has just been deleted.
This game desperately needs a sandbox where you can place troops where ever and has unlimited rounds we would recommend if they added a sandbox.
We’ve been a fan of Hunted Cow but this game has problems. We played the whole battle and it worked fine but the one day battles stop allowing attacks after several rounds. Dont waste your time and money till this is fixed. Shame. Their other civil war products are much better.
Great game love the American civil war and love your games but you mean to tell us that you charged us 5 bucks for a game that doesnt have pass and play by the way you would get a lot more buyers if you add pass and play.
Great game up until the latest version update. Slow. Difficult to play. Not worth the play time anymore. Played hundreds of times prior to this. Deleted from our iPad today. Dont waste your time with this game.
POS. Don’t buy. We were highly disappointed in this one.
This is the worst hex game we have played. The reload feature is terrible and thee are too many misses.
Yes, victory conditions are still a bit obtuse, but we know when we’ve won or not With the new patch the weird bugs are resolved and the game basically achieves its potential and is the best that Hunted Cow has produced to date with more detail nuance and flavor than everything that preceded it.
We’ve played the full campaign scenario twice, both times as the Federals and would have won both games except for the "invulnerable" Rebel units. Several units, most of them with a combat strength of 10 or higher, cause the game to lock up when they are fired upon. Melee attacks are successful, but that is a costly way to conduct the war. We do like the combat analysis feature, but would like all of the units to suffer loss from enemy fire.
The game has a chance to be very good or excellent, but at least one of the games is virtually unwinnable. Day one as the Confederates you have 12 turns to capture all four points, however you can barely even move the units to Seminary in 12 turns, much less have a battle. Once the bugs are fixed, it should be good.
This could be a good Gettysburg game but the designer has set up historical "objectives" that must be achieved or the game quits. This prevents trying different strategies to win the battle. The game is more like watching a reenactment rather than playing a game. If you don’t follow the historical script, you are punished by the game ending early. Victory conditions are fine but they should not cause the game to end. This is a design flaw that makes this game a failure and we regret buying it.
We generally like Hunted Cows games. Rebels and Redcoats is awesome. This, however, is an unmitigated disaster and we really want a refund. The gameplay is atrocious!! Way to screw the pooch Hunted Cow. You’ve managed to come up with a great idea and then ruined it.
Union full battle cannot be won, and so the game quite part-way through. It claims you have not captured some strategic points. But even if you do, it still quits with the same reason. Recommend holding onto your money until they make the game playable.
This game has some of the most serious flaws we have ever seen in any software package. Did the designers ever test it. After downloading, game would freeze up midway. Thought there was great news with an update, but that only froze the game up from the beginning. Save your money until this becomes fixed. It shouldn’t even be listed for sale in the App Store. 3 months later one fix and still game freezes up in the middle of day two. Enough is enough we WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!!
Update made it so all units are in unformed and cannot be put into any other formation. We love hc, so willing to overlook this and the other major bugs (perpetual night, 90 strength unit), but we will not be pleased if a new update does not fix the game in the next 24 hours.
Your latest update locks up our game after making one move. Please fix it!
Since the update, we cannot play with the Confederates. The union troops turn does not end as it crashes. Tried with the Union troops and you cannot form your troops and crashes upon your second attempt at moving a group of troops. Please help. We have the fever for the flavor of a lil butt whooping…
Downloaded the 1.1 update and now the program does no work. Need to contact the App Store and get our money back!!!!!!!
After we downloaded the update to Civil War: Gettysburg, it became unusable. Many of the new problems are cited in earlier reviews, so we won’t repeat them here. Needless to say, don’t buy this game until you start seeing reviews that the bugs infecting the latest update are fixed. Are you listening Hunted Cow?
Do not buy! Complete waste of $10. Game doesn’t work at all.
We are surprised that Hunted Cow would release a game like this. Their previous offerings have been so good, but this one keeps freezing. It is unplayable … Not something we expected after coughing up $10…
Another piece of junk. Used to be a quality, reliable studio. Now just another bunch of mindless jerks who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Takes too long in between turns please fix we waited 20 min and it still was not our turn!!
The update totally broke this $10 game. Refunds are due.
After playing all the TBEF games, we had high expectations for Gettysburg. It’s very buggy and yes, the never ending night is really ridiculous. We’re past turn 25 on the campaign game and it’s showed as night from 6am to 6pm. This one has potential but only if some serious work is done on bug fixes. UPDATED – from bad to worse – HC’s fix has totally ruined this app. Frankly we wonder that any reputable company could release a patch that would scuttle the whole app. Where’s the quality control? How could Apple have let this worthless drek get on line? Where’s our ten bucks? UPDATED – where’s the emergency past announced nearly a week ago? What a joke.
In the initial version, the sun never came up after the first day of battle. We downloaded the update, and now every infantry unit is demoralized, on both sides. Developers bit off way more than they can chew.
We love all the hunts cow games to include Gettysburg one of their best – until latest update which has made the game unplayable – please fix asap – very disappointing.
Do not download latest update. Game play freezes up. Do not buy.
Game constantly freezes on opponents turn. Imposible to play . Please fix.
Game freezes in every AI setting and every scenario after a couple of moves. Took a chance based on past experience with other civil war games by same producer. Big mistake! Very Disappointing.
We have enjoyed earlier Civil War games but Gettysburg locks up after only about two or three moves. Do not buy. We want our money back!!!
Units won’t change formation and AI locks into endless loop and never finishes. This needs serious work. Don’t buy unless reviews change.
This app is not working on iPad keeps crashing. You can sometimes play on the south side but not the union. When the app works game play is very very slow. We like your other games please fix. For now we would say DO NOT BUY THIS APP.
We love the history and attention to detail in this game; it is a very good development effort. Some of the scenarios are nearly unwinnable, though, based on the objectives and limitations, and the combat calculations result in a lot of misses. With the severe limits on ammunition we have a lot of units that simply have to hold their fire and take hits. On day 3 the confederates have an enormous number and firepower advantage over the union troops on cemetery ridge, especially with the compressed field shortening their time to advance.
So we have a unit with 2 guys left surrounded on three sides by our six units. One of our units is a fresh unit of 10 veteran soldiers – fires 4 times into this little two unit force (plus equal amount from our other 5 units) before we are able to kill him. In the mean time, this small unit kills one of our guys every volley. This happens numerous times in open terrain. Uh, no, should not happen. We switch sides and notice the same thing – enemy has Uber Mensch who do not miss while our volleys seem to bounce off. Playing standard AI. Secondly, we keep losing Gettysburg even though there are no rebs within Gettysburg. Third, every once in a while after our units fire or are fired on some red colored message pops up on our unit – small font and too briefly for us to read what it says. Fix these nits and this would be a must have game. Still enjoyable as is, though we refuse to commit to playing Gettysburg (prefer the small battles that are also included) for umpteen hours knowing we will lose due to what we see are flaws.
Night turns are cumbersome and waaaay to long. Game is nearly impossible to win… Animation isn’t always smooth. Solid effort though with huge potential to be a great game once all the bugs get worked out.
This app needs overhauling. It freezes up often. You never know what level you have completed. Some units can fire five times and never hit. Take the infernal "no night fighting" OUT! Some games are impossible to win. Wish we had our $10 back!
Night does not end after first day and game will not let us past turn 22. Automatic loss because we haven’t occupied Little Round top yet but orders say we have until turn 25! Not worth the money! Deleting game after this post!