To Take Washington: Jubal Early’s Summer 1864 Campaign is the third game in the Series: Line of Battle (MMP) series and covers Jubal Early’s campaign during the summer of 1864. From June into July, Old Jube swept out of the Shenandoah Valley and across the Potomac River to advance on Washington DC. By threatening the Federal capital, Early and the...
“Great stir in camp this evening. General Lyon has issued an order that this night shall decide the fate of Southern Missouri…We are going to march on them tonight.” --August 9th, 1861 Diary entry by William Branson, Iowan of the Muscatine Volunteer Infantry. “I will gladly give up my life for victory.” --General Nathaniel Lyon, around 1:00 AM, August...
Major General John Pope took command of the new Army of Virginia, and he wanted to bring a more aggressive posture to the Federal command. When Stonewall Jackson's Confederate wing moved north around the Union flank, Pope seized the opportunity to attack and attempt to destroy Jackson's force. Robert E. Lee, in overall command of the southern army in the...
Morgan's A'Comin' is the fourth game in the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc. (from the publisher) Rebel raider John H. Morgan defies orders, crossing the Ohio River in the summer of 1863 to bring war to the Yankees! All across the Midwest his incursion results in numerous alarms, property damage, and Union fears that he will link up with Robert E....
"Mosby's Raiders: Guerilla Warfare in the Civil War" is an Operational level Solitaire board-wargame that puts you in command of the Partisan Rangers. Your mission is to infiltrate enemy lines to disrupt the Union War effort. As you succeed in your operations, your notoriety grows and the Union devotes additional troops to stopping you. You select the...
It's early on July 1st, 1863, and Union Brigadier General John Buford’s 1st Reserve Cavalry Division is deployed to the west of the town of Gettysburg battling unidentified Confederate infantry advancing on the town. All morning long, the men in gray have pressured the Union cavalry. Help finally arrives in the form of I Corps commander Major Gen. John...
Pipe Creek is an expansion for A Most Fearful Sacrifice (AMFS), The Three Days of Gettysburg using a fresh method of simulating Civil War combat with the award-winning Black Swan system introduced in AMFS. Though only using a portion of the forces that fought at Gettysburg, Pipe Creek adds most of the cavalry that fought at the East Cavalry Field and...
"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees" - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson before his death Mr. Lincoln's War is a historical game which captures the epic struggle of the American Civil War. From their first major battle at Bull Run in 1861, through the campaigns of Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Atlanta and until the final days at...
From the contents: Mr. Lincoln's War is an historical game which captures the epic struggle of the American Civil War. Mr. Lincoln's War is organized into two games, the Army of the Tennessee, which deals with the western theater, and The Army of the Potomac, which deals with the war in Virginia. Each game has four short campaign scenarios that recreate...
From the contents: Mr. Lincoln's War is an historical wargame which captures the epic struggle of the American Civil War. Mr. Lincoln's War is organized into two games, The Army of the Tennessee, which deals with the Western theater, and The Army of the Potomac, which deals with the war in Virginia. Each game has four short campaign scenarios that recreate...
May 10th, 1864. A solid month of fighting found Grant no closer to the destruction of Lee's army than when his offensive started. Indeed, his losses exceeded Lee's by nearly two thirds. After escaping disaster in the Wilderness (when arguably only the wounding of Confederate General James Longstreet salvaged a stalemate from sure defeat), Grant now found...