Blue vs. Gray is an interesting card-wargame that covers the whole span of the Civil War at the strategic level. Each side has its own deck of cards which includes leaders, units and special actions and events. Through the use of cards a map of the entire South slowly is revealed as the war progresses. Players have to manage their forces through an...
A Civil War themed diceless strategy game played on an 8x8 grid or chess board. Each player builds a custom army of sixteen units composed of a General and an assortment of five other regiment sized units: Cavalry, Infantry, Riflemen, Artillery, and Mortar. Optional rules are provided for terrain (hills and forts), elite units, experienced units, and...
Bobby Lee covers the eastern theater of the American Civil War around the Virginia area from 1861-1865. It comes with a beautiful card-stock map of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Eastern Virginia and heaps of wooden blocks for the North and South. The game utilizes both a strategic layer of the conflict but also provides a slightly more tactical layer of...
One of the most violent and decisive naval battles of the American Civil War. Players use a standard deck of cards to activate their ships and fortress batteries and resolve combat (gunnery, ramming and torpedo/mine). Play is very interactive and intense, but without any of the tedious record keeping of many naval games. A Bold Fight also plays well...
Bonaparte allows you to set battles in the era of the black powder with 28mm soldiers for two or more players. Easy but not stupid, fast but accurate, the game mechanics allow you to play a game in a couple of hours. It contains army lists not just for the Napoleonic wars but also for the French-Indian war, the American revolution, the American civil war...
Bonnie Blue Flag Fast play rules, extensively tried and tested by League of Gentlemen Wargamers, whose ranks contain not a few wargaming authors. Any scale of figures, no need for re-basing. As a rough guide, 3-5 28mm figures per base, 6 bases per infantry regiment. A typical game involving a four Regiment strong Infantry brigade with a Battery of guns...
My Dear McClellan, if you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. – Abraham Lincoln Borrowing The Army is a pair of rulesets and a map. These rules allow you to refight the major campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. Put yourself in the shoes of Jackson, Lee and Grant and refight history; hopefully you can...
Just after Chancellorsville, the biggest cavalry engagement occurred on June 9, 1863. Reorganized Union forces under Pleasanton engaged JEB Stuart's Confederate Cavalry. This game was recently published in the new Panzerschreck issue #14. This is a 9 turn game on a small map with 10 units per side. Should play quickly. The game has initiative, disruption...
A simulation of the Battle of Brandy Station between the newly reorganized Cavalry Corps of the Union Army and the battle hardened veterans of J.E.B Stuarts Confederate Cavalry Division. The Battle of Brandy Station was largest cavalry battle in history. The mapboard is a TIME/SPACE GRID map consisting of sectors (squares) with movement numbers printed on...
The Battle of Antietam was the single bloodiest day in American military history. It was fought with a ferocity unsurpassed by anything the men who battled there encountered before or afterwards! Recreate the struggle to contain the Confederacy’s first invasion of the north. These scenarios are designed to be used with almost any American Civil War...
A solitaire (Player Confederate or Player Union) and 2-Player (Confederate v. Union) game covering the opening engagement of the Second Battle of Manassas. It is late in the afternoon, and Jackson has surprised a Union column marching along the Warrenton Turnpike. Two of the most famous Brigades to fight in the Civil War are about to meet. The Stonewall...