Vicksburg was the key. Holding it meant "holding the South together," with access to all the western men, food, horses, supplies... and Mexican ports. Holding it also meant the Mississippi River could not be freely used by the North, for transporting troops and supplies, nor by Midwestern farmers, for shipping exported goods. Can you, as the Federal...
Subtitled "The American Go Game." Campaign! was published in 1961 to reflect on the War Between the States. The game board is made up of squares 18 long and 15 wide, with various "battlefields" interspersed among the blocks. Each player starts with 72 wooden discs. Each turn, a player rolls the dice and adds discs to his or her lines, attempting to...
Campaigns In The Valley is the name given to the common rules for two games, "Sheridan In the Valley" and "Stonewall In the Valley". These games cover the 1862 and 1864 campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley. The games are designed to show the campaigns on an operational level. Game includes one map and 150 counters. (source: rules introduction and user's...
From the box: Strategic-operational simulation of warfare in the eastern theater. The game offers ten scenarios covering fighting between Union and Confederate forces in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania between 1861 and 1865. Each turn represents about five days of real time; each hex an area of roughly four miles across. Players are faced with the...
Campaigns of the Civil War: Vicksburg and Chancellorsville is a wargame that simulates two critical events of the American Civil War through a game system with a map divided into strategic squares. While this game is designed especially for solitaire play, it can accommodate a second player. Individual counters represents divisions, brigades, leaders...
One of 9 games released by Helen Of Toy Game Company that graced many a comic book from the late 50's into the early 80's. Cannon Ball is a classic Comic Book War Game with a Civil War theme. The Comic Book Ad claims the game was dedicated to the "Fighting Heroes" of the Battle of Chickamauga,where "34,400 troops were killed or wounded." Cannon Ball seems...
Carnage & Glory II is an easy to learn and easy to play computer moderated rule system suitable for both the novice and experienced player. There are no complex charts or book-keeping and accounting required as Carnage & Glory II maintains all the relevant information regarding the status of the combat units and general officers within the system database....
Casemate & Cannon brings the Age of Steam to the fingertips of the Armchair Admiral. The rules were designed for maneuver and engaging large fleets and squadrons into Close Action. A complete and comprehensive Fleet system designed for detail and fast play. - allows for a 20 ship game to be completed in 2-3 hours - can be used with any scale and no...
Cedar Creek 1864 is a small simulation of an American Civil war battle fought in October 19th 1864 between five Confederate divisions (Ramseur, Pegram, Evans, Kershaw and Wharton) and nine Union divisions (Wheaton, Getty, Keiffer, Mcmillan, Birge,Thoburn, Hayes, Merrit and Custer). The wargame is based on the rules of Bull Run 1861 (Vae Victis 89), the...
Strategy & Tactics magazine #86. American Civil War battle of the same name. 'Stonewall' Jackson against political general Nathaniel Banks as a prelude to Bull Run, August 9, 1862. A meeting engagement, Banks launches a spoiling attack against a superior CSA force and then has to conduct a fighting withdrawal to survive. The game uses the Great Battles of...
"Cemetery Hill is a simulation, on an operational level, of the gattle between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia at the town of Gettysburg, PA. The game covers the period from 1 July to 4 July, 1863, when these two armies fought the bloodiest battle in American history to that point. The game system is an adaption fo the popular...
"A Simulation Study of Operational Warfare from 1840-1900." A set of rules for wargaming miniature battles from the second half of the nineteenth century. The rulebook includes army lists for many wars from the last half of the nineteenth century, making the rules suitable for a variety of situations ranging from Colonial Conflicts to the American Civil...