Grand Tactician: The Civil War (1861-1865) News

• fixed: reloading saves clears stock of newly constructed supply depots
  
• refix: sea raiders perk does not blockade neutral IIP’s and may lead to inability to save the game
  
• supply depots now reduce their stock if they have not supplied troops for a longer time
  
• rating rebalanced to slightly higher levels, overall supply costs slightly lowered
  
• fixed: sometimes units are not firing on nearby enemies
  
• fixed: deactivated buttons in siege combats
  

• AI now defends more carefully and watches out better for nearby enemies
  
• fixed: units joining an autoresolved battle are not stopping but continue movement
  
• fixed: potentially wrong faction in naval battles when reloading while a battle rages
  
• added enhanced info panel for autoresolved battles (land battles, siege combat, fort bombardment, naval engagements)
  
• fixed: Diplomacy I selected in summer 61 scenario leading to wrongly assigned weapon types
  
• fixed: loading of saved tutorials fails if FOW options were changed
  
• playing manual battles in campaign tutorial is now not possible anymore
  
• fixed: LTGen act does not promote commander in chief to LTGen
  
• assumed fixed: playing background music twice while inspecting campaign after a won campaign
  
• fixed: multiple garrisons may take part in siege combat
  
• added drop down list below the alarm icons on top to directly access the autoresolve-panel
  
• fixed: wrong correlation between availability of weapons on the markets and equippable units
  
• removed: high combat intensity in sieges if besieging unit has offensive stance activated
  
• fixed: regualars act may add a Minnesota brigade to CSA armies
  
• newspaper messages can now be deactivated in options menu
  
• added to options menu: keep game paused after closing panels
  
• fixed: sea raiders perk not blocking trade nodes
  
• added: damages of forts through siege combat
  
• logics changed: increase of stock of supply depots now lead to immediate expenses, shown as separate position in finances tab
  
• supply depots are now fully filled at scenario start to prevent huge spikes in expenses at start
  
• fixed: provision and coal stock for fleets too high
  
• arms agents/security measures: number of weapons in stock is increased/reduced (before: only markets were affected)
  
• fixed: ship names for newly constructed ships are resetted when reloading
  
• fixed: capturing ships not working
  
• fixed: naval battles may triggered several times as AI cannot retreat out of the enemy fleet range
  
• fixed: when removing a ship name completely a new one cannot be entered
  
• commander exp now increased in naval combats and fort bombardments
  

• AI bonus now also applies to loss resilience
  
• AI now acts slightly faster and tries to avoid direct assaults on entrenchments
  
• added quickinfo about locked map functions when HQ papers are opened
  
• fixed: disappearing morale icon tooltips
  
• fixed: retreat time too short for AI although units fully engaged
  
• player can now use the arrow keys to browse through the army hierarchies
  
• AI is now forming up in double lines to deploy quicker
  
• AI acts more aggressive in battles
  
• AI reduces maneuvers in front of the enemy
  
• improved behavior for group commanders whose subordinates are all routed
  
• fixed: move at signal, on time sometimes carried out immediately
  

• updated: manual is now searchable
  

• fixed: ammo consumption too high in autoresolved battles
  
• reduced effect of debt and negative surplus on rating slightly
  
• added positive effects on AI rating when using higher difficulty
  
• fixed: economy report cumulates monthly founded companies
  
• now showing also killed and wounded brigade commanders in officer loss report
  
• fixed: upgrade of greyed out (not available) weapons possible
  
• added certain weapons to initial stock
  
• commanders may now be promoted manually
  
• fixed: construction icon prevents setting waypoints
  
• tidying up: fort names and conditions are now visible on map only if mouse is close
  
• army icons are now always placed in front of buildings, towns or IIP’s
  
• fixed/enhanced: tooltips and updating numbers for minimized unit panel stats
  
• improved drag and drop behavior, especially for fleets
  
• added campaign tutorial
  
• added workaround for units whose campaign stances are greyed out though no order is delivered anymore
  
• fixed: raiding enemy installations in allied states does not lower own support anymore
  
• fixed: support influence king cotton not counting for allied but for slave states
  
• rebalanced high effect of raiding on state support
  
• changed logic for drag- and dropping of ships: now the full space is used on both sides (except ship list)
  
• probably fixed: empty groups and fleets are not removed, officers not promoted when leaving the military panel via other top panels (eg. strategy, trade etc.)
  
• commanders now can only be promoted if they are active
  
• fixed: captured weapons now also show up if no tech is available
  
• fixed config bug in prefs that probably led to low reinforcement speed
  
• fixed issue that could have led to permanent increase of the number of wounded through reloading saves, though not resetting the numbers in older saves
  
• now preventing replacement of wounded/killed commanders of dummy garrisons
  
• no contract expiries happen for units that are engaged
  

• added approximate restrictions to line of fire for units
  
• fixed issues with blocking own units in line of fire
  
• commander initiative off now prevents units from wheeling
  
• commander initiative default can now be turned on/off for all units in main menu options menu
  
• deadly volley: units need to be at fire range 50% instead of 25% in order to gain perk experience
  
• fixed: Battle end screen showing “Courier to xxx” instead of army name if McDowell commands
  
• fixed: rare exception when cavalry units are linked and battle is reloaded
  
• fixed: potential freeze of units in Chickamauga historical battle when entering day 2#
  
• added auto-resizing of sprite numbers for huge battles that could have resulted in stuck loading or memory crashes, note: further improvements planned later
  
• added battle hints for certain unit events below top panel, can be deactivated in options menu
  
• added battle tutorial
  
• fixed: submenus of bottom panel sometimes auto-close while a unit is selected
  
• fixed: timed movement & bombardment on 2nd day starting immediately
  

• game is now paused while newspaper, message log and dispatches are opened
  
• added tutorials for campaigns and battles
  
• fixed: some game options are now automatically adjusted for tutorials to prevent stuck tutorial situations
  
• added auto pop up for patch notes in main menu
  

After just over a year in Steam's Early Access programme, Oliver Keppelmüller's ambitious American Civil War grand strategy game/RTS Grand Tactician launches today in version 1.0. The full launch adds a raft of new features and fixes, and prepares the historic strategy game for its planned slate of post-launch content.

As we've noted, version 1.0 of Grand Tactician adds two more campaign starts and six new historical real-time battles to fight. There are other upgrades to look forward to as well, however: Keppelmüller's team has made Grand Tactician easier to understand through a series of new tooltips and a range of tutorial videos, which are accessible within the game client.

There's also a new 'field manual' in Grand Tactician, which you can pull up at any time by clicking a question mark icon located near the compass in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and it's packed with information about the campaign screen, tactical battles, and army management. Another nice touch is a scalable UI - there's an option to turn on 'historical' fonts, if you'd like to read dispatches styled to look like officers' elegant cursive handwriting in the mid-1800s.

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