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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.
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.
Civil War is a two-player wargame in which one player controls Union forces and the other controls Confederate forces. Like other wargames produced by Avalon Hill, Civil War uses a hex grid map and a Combat Results Table to adjudicate battles. But unlike other wargames, it uses plastic tokens rather than cardboard counters. [1]
A strategy game of hypothetical WW III land combat in Eastern Germany Battle for Normandy: 1982: AppII, ATR, C64, DOS, TRS80 A simulation of the famous World War II battle on D-Day [2] The Battle of Shiloh: 1981: AppII, ATR, TRS80 A simulation of the first grand battle of the American Civil War Battle of Antietam: 1985: AppII, ATR, C64, DOS
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.
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 ...
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.
Cemetery Hill, subtitled "The Battle of Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1863", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1975 as part of the "quadrigame" Blue & Gray: Four American Civil War Battles that simulated four battles of the American Civil War. Cemetery Hill was later released as a stand-alone "folio" game.