Civil War Generals 2: Grant, Lee, Sherman is a Windows 95 and 3.1 compatible Windows PC game made by Sierra. It remains one of the few and in my opinion the best Civil War games ever made. A turn-based strategy game, you can choose to play as the Confederacy or the Union in individual battles or campaigns. From the Battle of Gettysburg to the East and West Theaters, my personal favorite was called The Civil War, which spanned the entire Civil War.
The choice of a campaign linked the battles together so that their results in one battle had a determinable effect in the next. For example, when the battle ended after the maximum number of turns expired or the enemy was completely annihilated, you will be taken to a victory screen where it will indicate Major Victory, Minor Victory, Draw, Minor Defeat, and Major Defeat. The result is based on the number of victory points, casualties suffered, supply gained, etc. and unleash an alternate battle. For example, the Bull Run battle has 5 Alternates depending on the option you received with a Grand Victory that brings a 128-turn battle and a massive map. Other alternatives include shorter turns and smaller maps, even unit size differences.
After the victory screen came buying new weapons for his troops, seeing his hospitalized generals, and seeing the experience gained for units that had minimal casualties. All these different but intertwined conditions make it a complicated but fun strategy war game. In the advanced options, you even have a chance to affect line of sight and fog of war, which means that some guns can only fire if they see the target. The height of the terrain could deny you a shot from an enemy just a couple of hexes away.
Anyway, I could go on about the fun game, but there is something even more important to cover. Originally designed for Windows 3.1, the game crashes immediately after a battle ends when selecting a campaign if you have not patched the game. A fairly easy solution if it weren’t for the fact that the patch is almost non-existent, except in some places. When you install the patch, it’s a matter of running the game and possibly downloading a Wing.dll file from another site if you get a sound-based error message. Once these steps have been completed, all you need to do is go to Windows Explorer, find the ..exe file, and under Properties, select “Make Windows 95 Compatible”. Then the game should work properly.