Mosby's Confederacy

Mosby's Confederacy is a strategy game that combines turn-based planning and resource management with real-time tactical combat. You command John Singleton Mosby’s small bands of skirmishers, scouts and guerrilla fighters on missions to reconnoitre, ambush Union soldiers, steal supplies and harass a larger, better-armed force.

Campaign and towns

Missions and objectives are randomized, so you must adapt your plans from one game to the next. You recruit soldiers from local towns, whose support affects which units are available for specific missions. Your interactions with towns and the casualties you send home change the region, while the war makes it increasingly difficult to keep towns confident, supportive and willing to provide recruits.

Between battles, you can invest in towns to establish field hospitals, stables and munitions caches. These facilities help keep your forces fit and ready to fight. Campaign progress is tracked, and you receive a full report of your accomplishments when it ends.

Build your force

Each campaign begins with a small group of veteran units and raw recruits whose homes are chosen at random. Units have different base stats and gain attributes as they earn battlefield experience. You develop them into Rangers, Riflemen, Cavalrymen and Scouts, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Your soldiers are individual fighters rather than expendable, nameless units. You choose which ones to bring into each mission, then complete it with that force: there are no buildings that spawn replacements during battle.

Tactical missions

Combat takes place in real time, with randomized enemy concentrations and objectives. Reconnaissance and stealth are central to your approach as you carry out opportunistic missions against Union forces.