A 2-player card game representing the American Civil War in both East and West theaters. Cards represent key generals and events during the period of 1861-1865. Each player plays their own deck of cards with the Union objective of capturing three key victory cities (Richmond, Atlanta, Vicksburg) and the Confederates trying to prevent this. Resource Events...
Solo American civil war card game. Every turn draw cards until you have four cards in your hand, you decide when to play the good and bad ones. But end a turn with four cards and you lose. Primarily you place cards into play, pushing toward the enemy general. Use flanking,charging, artillery with your line formations. Free print and play, 40 cards in all...
Battle for Gettysburg: The First Day The game comes with one colour map (in two pieces about 22" x 17"). 120 counters (mounted not cut), rule book and charts. Formations (Divisions for the Confederates, Corps for the Union) activate on chit pull, each formation then may Fire, Move and Final Fire with Defensive Fire occurring at the completion of Movement....
From the game box. "Close Quarters Combat Board Game" "Victor or vanquished. Which will you be?" "Since the dawn of civilization, mysterious forces have plucked the ancient armies from their savage battlefields, and placed them on the Battle Grid of eternity. Caught in a maelstrom of space and time, they fight countless battles with the enemies from many...
Battle Hymn Vol. One includes two games: Gettysburg: The Tide Turns and Pea Ridge: The Struggle for Missouri. Battle Hymn is a new brigade-level game system that simulates the chaos of the America Civil War using a simple activation system combined with a detailed combat system. The system’s designer, Eric Lee Smith, originated the “chit-pull” activation...
Battle Hymn: Volume Two is the long-anticipated sequel game release to Volume One and includes two complete games: Shiloh and Bentonville. Battle Hymn is the new brigade-level system based upon the latest research into Civil War combat. This new entry introduces a new solitaire system to the series and an extension map for Gettysburg (Volume One) for a...
Interesting game in the Avalon Hill mode published in 1960. Mounted mapboard and cardboard counters. As described in the rules: Battle of Atlanta War Centennial Game is a war game featuring the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, and also includes other war games centered around the East Tennessee and Northern Georgia battles of 1863-1864. These are games that both...
On November 6th, 1861, rebels in Columbus, Kentucky, celebrated the election of President Jefferson Davis. That same day, General Ulysses S. Grant moved against General Polk on the opposite side of the Mississippi. This was to be Grant's first aggressive action of the war. Grant landed 3,000 men, supported by artillery and cavalry two miles southeast of...
The Battle of Bentonville: Johnston's Last Stand is a grand-tactical simulation of the Battle of Bentonville, which was fought in eastern North Carolina on 19-21 March 1865. A self published wargame developed in the late 1970's and published in 1980. Designed by Eric D. France, developed by Michael Scott and printed by Dixie Press in Gulfport, MS. This was...
The Battle of Bentonville (March 19-21, 1865) was the largest Civil War battle in North Carolina and the last major battle between the armies under William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston. The Confederate General Johnston was ordered to stop the Union Army from advancing on Bentonville and hoped to destroy Sherman’s Union army in piecemeal. This game...
A self-published, SPI quality (circa 1974), wargame of the American Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, 20 Sept., 1863. A legal-sized white envelope with a b&w sketch of the battle containing: 2 8 1/2" x 11" typewritten pages of rules (SPI ACW Quad complexity) 1 page of Order of Battle and Set-up 1 page with Combat Results Table and Terrain Effects Chart...