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The Bluecoats: North vs South 
In The Bluecoats: North vs South you play as the head of one of the armies of the Civil War. Your aim is to conquer the American territory. Head up the Yankees or Confederates and destroy your enemy! Taking up positions, capturing states, assaulting and capturing enemy forts, attacking trains and protecting your railroads... you'll have to deal with everything! Capture the port to use the reinforcements coming from Europe. Protect yourself from storms and be wary of ambushes and bandits. To come out in one piece, you'll have to master taking turns, armed battles in real time, 1 against 30 shoot-outs, and horseback train chases in this colorful strategy game!
- Relive the Civil War
- Dynamic and strategic battles
- Several mini games
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/Win7/8
- CPU: 1.0 GHz
- RAM: 1024 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 230 MB
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- Browser: Internet Explorer 7 or later
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Horrible Game
I played almost the full hour. This game is absolutely terrible. The game is kind of like playing Risk against the computer, except that you have almost no chance of successfully winning anything, ever. It seems that every element about this game is weighted heavily against the player, and since the tutorial is useless and there are no instructions or help, its impossible to win. If you like to fight losing battles and enjoy struggling in vain, this is the game for you! Otherwise (like your player will often do in this game) beat a hasty retreat.
I suggest saving yourself plenty of frustration and don't even bother with this game. Wish I had a third hand so I could give it three thumbs down.
May 29, 2012
Up For A Challenge
It is a Risk type game. I learned From watching what the computer did on its turns. I suggest u put the computer on weak and yourself on the strongest possible at the beginning. Even then good luck.
Always try to take a town state as you need 2 towns to get any gold. Get the state with the lighthouse and the wharf to recieve reinforcements unfortunately they seem to be random. Spend your 2 gold asap on protective cavalry to protect against the indians and mexicans and then buy units as soon as u get 3 gold You will need them and even then u may not win.
I enjoyed the attacking fort when you attack a town but its awkward aiming and watching the cover countdown and when your man stood up it wasn't noticable till he died. But I managed to win a few.
I have to admit i gave up during the trial hour
May 29, 2012
What a big bang(not)
I played the demo for around 30 minutes, to only find out, the computer runs the game. Sometimes I would win the battle, and other times I could not. I thought it would be a good strategy game, but no luck. I have to give a thumbs down on this one. Not worth the time.
May 29, 2012
Fun little Strategy Game (but...)
Was JUST Ok ..For My taste, it was too Arcade-ish.. If it were less so, & more Strategy, I would buy, but Battles are too dependent on Hand-eye Coordination for an OLD half-blind Geezer as myself
Great map, & good Idea, just not to my Tastes;)
May 29, 2012
Excellent game with some strange negatives
Well, I find myself (happily) going against the flow here.
Despite its unfortunate topic choice (and a couple of minor offenses), this is a much more fun and challenging game than we usually find at BFG.
A hybrid of Risk (turn based), action RPG, and shooting gallery, this game was just downright tough! You choose to play one of three soldiers (not sure what the third one is--but it doesn't really matter because the setting is just an excuse for a Risk-like map of the US). You take turns taking over states, in some of which you can find forts, train stations, and docks--all important to your strategy.
If you don't keep track, however, your enemy can get strong while you aren't looking. While it's important to increase your army size, it's also important to give the men better arms, and practice your shooting skills.
When you confront an enemy force (or they confront you), your cavalry, foot soldiers and heavy guns face their battalion of the same. Choose a group to attack and set them in motion, while trying to keep your guys out of the way of their cannons.
If your fort is attacked when the battalion is away in another state, you play a shooting gallery game. It's fast and you are handicapped by only being able to stay under cover for a short period of time.
A quick play of this game kicked my tuckus!! For those of us with an RPG jones, this looks to have a ton of replay value.
Now...the big BUT in the room--it can be a bit offensive in some ways (this war was decided a long time ago, Mexican's attack if you get to Texas, Indians attack if you get to Oklahoma or Missouri--not sure which). But if you can get past the horrible stereotypes, the gameplay mechanic is actually quite good.
May 29, 2012
Don't even bother
Absolute train wreck of a game. No documentation, no clarity to what you can do, why you would want to do something, or anything else. I am surprised that BFG would even put this dreck in their catalog. The turn based game is slanted immediately toward one side, the "real time" combat is unwieldy, and you have no idea what units do, who they should target. I never even got to the fort attack mini-game, as I dropped out and uninstalled this. Add to this that you can take the port and try and defend it, but probably won't get anything from it most of the time if you do. Mexicans and Indians may or may not attack, but if they do, you lose your unit automatically.
May 29, 2012
??? :-S
Probably a strategy game. I figured out that you can either play as a Yankee or Confederate, but that is about all I could figure out. So I went for Yankee, got some territory and could move my two soldiers to different areas. This I did to trumpets blasting that I would associate more with gladiators in the arena rather than the Civil War. Once my two figures stood on different areas of the map, I clicked 'ok' (or 'continue') and then the enemy did the same. Then I could see the enemy's train moving in a smaller window and some sort of hatch opened and somebody fell out. My turn again and I moved my two guys to different areas...again and the ones I stood on before had my flag on them, so I can only assume that I had conquered this territory. Then my train moved and a guy fell out of the hatch for a reason I can't fathom. I could see a ship belonging to the enemy delivering supplies.
There was a 'shop' in which I could've bought something (more troops, weapons...)if I had managed to get some gold.
Eventually me and my enemy 'met' on the same plot on the map. A new scene came up and I found myself on what I think is supposed to be a battlefield. Fighting began and I quickly lost all my troops. "Why?" you may ask and all can I say is: "I haven't got the foggiest idea." But I think I can safely say it may be because there weren't any proper instructions to the game. At least I didn't come across any. I didn't even know which states of America were mine, into which I moved my two guys, let alone what sort of advantages or disadvantages any of my actions would result into.
It felt as if I played the rough idea of something that may have been a great game if it had been finished.
I suggest to give it a spin and perhaps somebody can make more sense out of it.
I can't recommend or not recommend this game, as I really don't know what this is supposed to be about.
May 29, 2012
Not worth my Time
Wow what can I say the download took longer than the time it took me to realise this was an awful game. I think the main reason I didn't like it was because there was absolutely no tutorial, so wasn't real sure on what to do or the objective of the game.
Usually I just buy games on bigfish without trialling them first certainly glad I played the trial. Can not recommend this game at all.
May 29, 2012
What a dumb game!
I just wasted my time downloading this game, don't waste your time! The directions are lacking, was confused on how to play. Just overall boring.
May 29, 2012
Not a bad game but not great
I really wanted this game to be like the old North vs South on the NES. It was not.
You have no autonomous control over your troops. The controls are sticky and not very smooth. There is no accounting for how troops would fight in a realistic situation. Many times I had entire groups of calvary wiped out by infantry.
Game play was slow and there is no way to speed things up in the options menu. After seeing things a couple of times you get the gist but there is no way to skip watching the same cheesy cut scenes.
Also, it was insanely difficult to get anything done. Everytime I would think I was on top of things the Indians or Mexicans would wipe out my troops and I'd wind up fighting several "months" of skirmishes just to get back to the same position. Several times I had the South backed up against the wall only to lose several battles in a row and I was never able to feel I was doing something to turn the tide of battle. Line the troops up, point them at an enemy and click. If they live then you win, they die you lose.
Like the title says, it really not a bad game but it does make you slog through a bunch of slow reacting scenes and repetitive cut scenes to get to the heart of the game.
I'm going to recommend this game with some reservations. If you liked Landgrabbers then you should like this game.
May 29, 2012
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