On July 16, 1861, the federal Army of the Republic was ordered to Richmond to capture the Confederate capitol. The two armies met at a railroad junction town called Manassas near a stream called Bull Run. Now the commanders of the opposing forces can re-live and re-fight that famous battle. The board is stylized representation based on actual maps. The map...
Description from the designer: A card based strategy card game where players are trying to secure the most cities as possible before the fight between the North and South is over. Players will obtain cities as they go and try to hold as many as possible by placing defense cards to protect and keep them. Other players will use attack cards to attack the...
"June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed." Thus read the last diary entry, found in the pocket of a dead Union soldier. He had made the entry himself, while all around him, other soldiers were writing names and home addresses on slips of paper and pinning them to the back of their coats. These veteran soldiers knew what was coming, although it seems their...
The game is one of five in the War for Southern Independence Series. This is a simulation of the First Battle of the Civil War in the West: Oak Hills (also known as Wilson's Creek)in August 1861. The game uses a a bombardment chart and a single d10 combat system with modifications for terrain and odds. Units are counters of infantry, cavalry, and...
"Objective: Atlanta is a strategic simulation or 'wargame' that recreates one of the classic strategic campaigns of the American Civil War. In the actual campaign, the Union took Atlanta before the 1864 Presidential election to help Lincoln become re-elected. The scope of the game is such that the most important factors present in the actual campaign are...
Description from the publisher: Designer John Theissen has another compact operational sandbox for ACW gamers to play around in. While the game has some similarities to his MORE AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDES, important differences in scale and emphasis result in a unique experience that's specific to the factors that doomed the Union's 1864 Red River Campaign. Each...
Olustee, is a simulation about The Battle of Olustee was fought on February 20, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the only major battle fought in Florida during the war. Union General Truman Seymour had landed troops at Jacksonville, aiming chiefly to disrupt Confederate food supply. Meeting little resistance, he proceeded towards the state...
On Bloody Ground - The American Civil War, includes four complete army lists to enable players to build Early War Union, Early War Confederate, Late War Union or Late War Confederate armies. A 54 page A4 perfect bound mass combat rulebook with common sense rules for movement, shooting and combat, along with a command and orders structure which produces a...
This is the sixth game in the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series. It covers the Peninsula campaign. (from the back of the box:) On to Richmond! is an exciting game of strategy and maneuver. McClellan has overwhelming force at first, but Richmond is a long way off and the rainy season has just begun. Meanwhile reinforcements from all over the...
(from MMP website :) The Skirmisher #1 is the premiere issue of the support magazine for the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series of games by Joe Balkoski, Ed Beach and Chris Withers. The Skirmisher is [...] an occasional magazine that contains [...] new articles, scenarios, player aids, rules errata, and other helpful items have been collected...