Sail and Steam Navies is a PDF set of rules designed for 1/600 scale miniatures, but has information for use with 1/1200 scale miniatures. The period covered is 1840 to 1880 when most warships were equipped with sails as well as steam power. The basic rules are 40 pages long, with charts, markers/templates, an example of play, and conversion information...
As the battle of Chancellorsville raged, a Union corps was dispatched to hit the vulnerable Confederate army from behind. The flanking column was delayed by a single Confederate brigade at Salem Church. The battle grew as Confederate arrived first to firm up the front, then to turn the tables on the Federals. The flankers became flanked, then had to fight...
You're standing lookout on the deck of the Union warship USS Cumberland anchored in Hampton Roads. The cold morning air bites through your coat. Through the fog laying over the bay you see a shape moving, you take it as nothing, seeing things from a late watch. You take a swig of coffee from your canteen to clear your head. Suddenly you see the shape move...
Sam Grant covers the western theater of the American Civil War around the Mississippi area from 1862-1864. It comes with a beautiful card-stock map from Vicksburg to Cincinnati 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 combat with...
"Rules for Wild West and Civil War. These is a very simple wargame for play on beach or in backyard, with plastic toy soldiers. The focus is on a fast-action game, easy to learn and easy to play. Our game is for small battles, only - with armies of 100 men or less on each side." The players must supply the appropriate Cowboy and Indian or Civil War toy...
Savage Station, took place on June 29, 1862, as the fourth of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. The main body of the Union Army of the Potomac began a general withdrawal toward the James River. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder pursued along the railroad and the Williamsburg Road and struck Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose...
Scum of the Earth. Black Powder gaming for the rest of us. "Sire, the reinforcements have arrived on our left flank!" "Excellent Windsor, let's give these French degenerates what for" "But Sire, their uniforms... " "What about their uniforms?" "They look... well Sire, I swear they look like Austrians" "By God man, if they are shooting at the French, what...
Scum of the Earth: Rules Pack This expansion pack to 'Scum of the Earth adds rules for new unit types: Pistoleer cavalry, Swordsmen, Musketeers, Frontier infantry, Forlorn hope and Partisans. You also get optional and variant rules covering: Cavalry pursuits, Forced marches, Street fighting, passage of time and commander blinders. We round out the content...
A SOLITAIRE effort to parry Abraham Lincoln and the powerful Union military and political efforts to subdue and conquer the Confederacy. You command the military, political and industrial forces of the South as you try to become the Confederate States of America, from Secession in 1861 to Appomattox Court House (or a different outcome?). You have a variety...
"Second Bull Run 1862" is an American Civil War board wargame for two players that simulates the main battle of the "Northern Virginia Campaign" during the summer of 1862 between General Lee for the South and General Pope for the North. Despite being outnumbered, Lee wins the 3-day combat and takes advantage of his good defensive position before launching...
May 3rd, 1863 is a somewhat forgotten day in ACW history but it had 21,357 casualties and was the second bloodiest day of the American Civil War. Part of that day's butcher bill involved General John Sedgwick's VI Corps. General hooker was losing possession of the Chancellorsville Crossroads and he ordered Sedgwick to advance out of the Fredericksburg...