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Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill in 1958 that re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The game rules were groundbreaking in several respects, and the game, revised several times, was a bestseller for Avalon Hill for several decades.
A battle scene. The game allows the player to control either the Confederate or Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.It can be played as single scenarios, or as a campaign of linked scenarios, either recounting the original history or exploring alternative possibilities.
He concluded by giving Pickett's Charge a grade of "B", saying, "This game takes a new approach to the portrayal of Civil War combat, and in some cases is not as successful as it could be." [2] In 1993, Edward Linenthal noted that copies of Pickett's Charge were for sale in a Gettysburg hobby and souvenir shop more than a decade after its ...
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Players may try a variety of 25 individual scenarios, or refight the entire Battle of Gettysburg. A Fog of War option enhances playing against the computer, as it hides units that are not in direct view of the enemy. The game features video clips of battle reenactments, as well as Civil War music by folk singer Bobby Horton.
Terrible Swift Sword: Battle of Gettysburg Game (often abbreviated TSS) is a grand tactical regimental level board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. A second edition was published by TSR in 1986.
Lee vs. Meade, subtitled "The Battle of Gettysburg", is a board wargame published by Rand Game Associates (RGA) in 1974 that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Description
Lee at the Crossroads is a two-player board wargame that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg, using some rules that were unique for 1980. Unlike most board wargames of the time that resolve combat results based on the ratio of attacking strength to defending strength plus a die roll, damage is instead assigned as fixed percentages of each unit's strength based on a unit's quality classification ...