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Here's an introduction to the game:
War of Rights is a multiplayer game set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862. Campfire Games is devoted to presenting the gruesome and glorious elements of the period, while maintaining the highest level of historical accuracy and realism as is possible with the wonders of CRYENGINE.
Players in the game will be able to play on multiple battlefields of the campaign, from the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the Siege of Harper's Ferry took place, to the ridgelines of South Mountain, and to the meandering waters of Antietam Creek at the Battle of Antietam. Additionally, players will also be able to choose from a list of regiments that fought in each battle as well as what rank to fight as, whether they want to slog it out as a lowly private, or if you want to orchestrate the carnage and mayhem as a major general.
Uniforms and bodily features will all be customizable for other players to see as you march and fight in the lines of battle according to the tactics of the period. As a General, you will operate in your headquarters equiped with a map of the battlefield and constantly receiving reports of friendly and enemy positions. Send out new orders to the regiments to move forward, or fall back - all in real time. The orders will move down the chain of command, to the Colonels, Majors, down to the Captains in charge of the individual regiments, all of whom have the option to follow the orders of their trusted commander, or rebel against his wishes and fight as you see fit.
Each map contains a period reconstruction of the buildings, farms, forests, roads & rocks that existed so players can fight through the streets of Harper's Ferry, in the wooded heights of Fox's Gap at South Mountain, or in the wheatfields and Bloody Lanes of Antietam. Players can feel the whiz of deadly shot and shell fly by their bodies, or hit their comrades or themselves as they scream in a bloody hail from their wounds. Limbs will fly and blood will be spilt once again as Campfire Games brings the fighting of the Civil War right to the player's computer screen!
Will you heed the Union call against the traitors? Or will you fight to defend your family and livelyhood with the Confederacy? You decide!
Here's a few recently released ingame screenshots from the battle of Antietam as well as a bit of background info:
The retreat of the Louisiana Brigade
When the Union infantry rushed towards Miller's Cornfield, they drove the Louisiana Brigade back to the West Woods. Along that brigade was the famous 1st Louisiana Infantry, which had a company of Hay's Wheat Tigers attached.
When they finally reached the Hagerstown Pike, the soldiers faced each other across the chest-high rail fences that lined along the road and traded volleys at point blank range. Two regiments of Union sharpshooters joined in the fight and poured a heavy fire into the left flank, while a battery of cannons unlimbered 75 yards from the road and raked the Tigers’ line.
In less than half an hour, both Louisiana brigades had been shattered.
Two days after this slaughter took place, Alexander Gardner began taking his battlefield photographs and made the most famous photo of the war, displaying the casualties of this fight.
Reinforcements for the Sunken road
While the Confederates got heavily attacked at the Sunken Road, Brigadier General Wright's brigade got the order to send fresh reinforcements.
The 44th Alabama and the 3rd Georgia formed at Gen. Longstreet's headquarter at Piper Farm and dressed their battle lines. In addition, skirmishers were sent out infront of the main line to fight the enemy pickets.
It was during this advance, when soldiers of Wright's brigade saw General Longstreet himself, helping to shoot a 12lb Napoleon near the Apple Orchard.
Fight at the East Woods
The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, together with the attached men of Collis' Independent Company - the "Zouaves d'Afrique" - fighting confederates near Millers Cornfield.
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