Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel is a Tactical level board-wargame of the bloodiest single-day battle in the American Civil War. Game turns are sequential, with each player moving, firing artillery, and then having two rounds of combat, each in turn. Also provided are rules for solitaire play. Victory is determined by victory points earned by the Union...
"Antietam Campaign" is a Grand Tactical hex-and-counter wargame for 2 players. With less than six pages of rules, it is very adept in it role as an introduction to gaming the American Civil War. The developer’s notes indicate that it is a modified installment of the Blue & Gray (SPI) system. The games comes with three scenarios, from nine to thirteen turns...
Blue & Gray: Four Civil War Battles is a Tactical level board-wargame where players maneuver colorful card board counters on three color maps of the actual battle sites. A hexagonal grid superimposed upon each map regulates the deployment, movement, and battle engagement of each unit. The colorful counters represent the infantry, cavalry, and artillery...
Conflicts in American History: The Civil War - Module 1 is a SPI published soapbox size wargame consisting of 9 copies of Antietam and 9 copies of Cemetery Hill both wargames from their Blue & Gray series. There is an additional teachers instruction booklet, 2 historical briefings booklets, two test questions booklets and one Bulletin board poster to...
The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict and a defining event in the history of the United States. The tragedy of the conflict was amplified by the fact the battles were brutally fought with Napoleonic tactics while using new and more lethal weaponry. As a result, over the course of nearly four full years of war, roughly 700,000 Americans were...
April's Harvest: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862, is the ninth game of the Civil War Brigade (CWB) Series from The Gamers. April 6, 1862: The Confederacy must strike back at a host of Union armies that have virtually captured vital Tennessee. The South masses its forces under charismatic Albert Sidney Johnston to strike Union troops encamped at...
Aragon 1938 (Aragón ’38) is a two player wargame simulating the Nationalist Spring 1938 offensive in Eastern Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia, from March to May 1938. Historically, the Nationalist armies (reinforced by an Italian motorized corps and German air units) inflicted a major defeat to the Ejército Popular de la República (EPR), reaching the...
Army of the Potomac: Campaigns of 1862 and 1864 is the second volume in the Civil War Heritage series and the follow-up game to the innovative and acclaimed Rebel Fury. Army of the Potomac uses the same core rules as Rebel Fury, so players familiar with Rebel Fury will be able to jump right into the action. Each battle in Army of the Potomac is...
From the box of Third Edition: ¡Arriba España! is a simulation game on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9. The game is for two players, one representing the left-wing coalition government of the Spanish Republic (the Government Player), and the other the alliance of right-wing forces that rose in revolt against it (the Rebel Player). Third Edition, reissued...
Just like the name suggests, The Art of War pays homage to the legendary treatise by Sun Zi, in how it attempts to capture and emulate its essence of extolling the depth of strategy and tactics in actual warfare, within a medieval-fantasy setting. The objective of the game is won threefold, to either destroy all 7 Resource Areas of the opponent, to defeat...
Wargame of the Asturias Front in the Spanish Civil War. Asturias 1936-1937 can be played on full campaign or one of the three scenarios: Insurrection, Grado Corridor and Final Offensive. Asturias was the last Loyalist stronghold in the Northern Front, so the Nationalist player will try to break the defensive lines and reach Oviedo and Gijon to win this...