Right now, the blast-from-the-past-blasting dev is attempting to crowdfund the project via its own website, but I wouldn't be surprised Battle Cry popped up on Kickstarter or Indiegogo before too much longer. Obviously, though, it'll be fairly incredible if Flying Squirrel pulls it off. So basically, each map is its own gametype. The game has respawns to better simulate the large scale battles of the era.' The objectives are a set of goal each side has to complete in order to win the map, and they vary from mission to mission to give the game greater diversity. Each one has a historical set up in terms of map, factions, units available and objectives. 'Instead of selecting a game mode, a map, and factions, you choose an engagement. But what will you actually be trying to accomplish? Well, that's a bit less, er, concrete. Muskets rule the day, and they'll be complimented by a familiar directional attack/block system. We have the technology.Д¬ombat, meanwhile, will be heavily inspired by Mount & Blade. Instead, players will be encouraged to run their own match-based servers - reinforced by Flying Squirrel's 'own new and original network engine.' We can rebuild the Civil War, they essentially say. For instance, Battle Cry of Freedom isn't a persistent sandbox MMO or anything like that. But then, Napoleonic Wars was a damn impressive mod-turned-expansion, so it's not like this team's staffed with eyes-bigger-than-their-stomachs amateurs.ДЄnd some other goals do sound a bit more manageable than their nearly sim-level counterparts. By my incredibly thorough and meticulously re-checked calculations, that's teensy tiny. Will it work? Can it work? More after the break.Д¬urrently, Flying Squirrel's a four-person team. Oh, and the entire environment will be destructible. Meanwhile, the plan is to include every type of not-so-modern warfighter imaginable - from soldiers to artillery to musicians. Flying Squirrel is feverishly loading its musket and shooting for 500-plus player battles across five-by-five kilometer maps that are based on satellite images of actual locations. And so far, the (admittedly over-simplified) label sticks.

That's roughly how Flying Squirrel Entertainment - they of Mount & Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars - are describing their upcoming American Civil War opus, Battle Cry of Freedom.

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