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Players compete against the computer's artificial intelligence or against another player via modem. Players may try a variety of individual scenarios, or refight the entire battle of First or Second Bull Run (known as Manassas in the South). Players can also fight the related skirmishes of Blackburn's Ford and Brawner's Farm (also known as ...
It simulated combat at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, using both a video version of miniature wargaming and board gaming. Terrain hex maps are 3D or 2D with various scales and sizes. The basic platform for the Battleground series involves individual infantry and cavalry regiments, artillery batteries, and commanders. All are rated for strength ...
[2] [3] It was announced in June 1998 for a fall 1998 release. [4] TalonSoft developed Chickamauga with an upgraded 32-bit version of the series' game engine. [1] [5] It is the fifth Battleground title to cover the American Civil War. [1] The game reached gold status in December 1998. [6] TalonSoft announced that only 5,000 copies of ...
Bull Run to Chancellorsville is a tactical wargame in which the player takes command in the first American Civil War battles. Volume I includes six battles from the Civil War, in which two players may manage the Confederate and Union armies, or a single player can play against the computer managing the other army with the option of selecting from three handicap levels to add to each side.
This version of the game is free to play. The same game mechanics were later used in Memoir '44, published by Days of Wonder, Commands & Colors: Ancients, published by GMT Games, and Battle Lore, published by Fantasy Flight Games. A new, updated version was published in 2013 by Wizards of the Coast for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Players can customize uniforms, maps, sounds, and units. This aspect of tweaking the game proved vital to Civil War aficionados looking for historically accurate models. This ultimately led to the creation of other famous battles such as the Battle of Fredericksburg, the First Battle of Bull Run, the Peninsula Campaign, and more.
There are two playable factions available in this game, the Confederacy and the Union (although foreign intervention is a possibility). The campaign map for the strategic level stretches from Minnesota to Texas and from Maine to Florida. Battle maps for the tactical level are made of terrain hexes which correspond to how far a unit can move.
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]