But I do like a good strategy game, the practice of shunting little toy soldiers about and watching as long bits of geometry engulf other, smaller bits of geometry.

I don’t know much about this period of American history, except that Abraham Lincoln was the goodie and Clint Eastwood won the war by blowing up a bridge with a Mexican friend. This week, he attempts to become a renowned tactician for the Union in Ultimate General: Civil War.

Every week we dispatch Brendan onto the battlefields of early access alongside a battalion of eager troops.