Lee wets himself, aka Grant Takes Command

[jimmy olsen]

2000yds/hex.

So one nautical mile 

[sbr]

2000yds/hex.

So one nautical mile 

It is a land battle. 

[Berkut]

You guys don't even realize my pain when I see that someone has posted in my thread, but it turns out they didn't really.

[PDH]

If I were the Union I would try some ahistorical tactics - perhaps throwing thousands and thousands of men at the Confederate entrenchments in an attempt to wear them down through a process of merciless attrition.

[Caliga]

This game looks awesome.  I've never really liked any battle-level Civil War games but I want something to play other than For The People. 

[Berkut]

This game looks awesome.  I've never really liked any battle-level Civil War games but I want something to play other than For The People. 

So far I very much like it. It is starting to look rather ugly in the Wilderness though. We are both shoving a lot of troops into a rather small area.

Why this is bad for the Union:
Will it end up with me just slamming into his dug in lines, in a brutal battle of attrition that I will lose - are we doing Cold Harbor in the first week of the campaign???

Why this is bad for the South:
Is he over-concentrating? I have more units - is the ANV going to get "bottled up" in the Wilderness?

[Berkut]

Situation in the Wilderness.



This is towards the "end" of turn 3 - most units are at 3 or 4 fatigue, so more action is not likely today. As you can see, it is very concentrated, and Burnsides Corps is moving in. However, Hill's corp is off to the south still, so the Confederates do have a reserve still.

[Berkut]

Cavalry having fun!

The cav has been active further West. Stuart feinted into Madison county, and Sheridan responded by trying to bring in overwhelming force to stomp on some of the isolated Confederate units.


I think I have surrounded and wiped out Stuart and the regiment with him.

[Caliga]

*checks* This game is teh expensive. 

[Berkut]

Yeah, it si out of print, and since GCACW is distributed by MMP, I would not hold your breath waiting for a reprint.

I got very lucky, and picked up a copy from BGG in trade for another game.

[Tamas]

What's the scale of these hexes? 1/2 a mile?

Looks like roughly an inch to me.

i lolled

[Caliga]

http://www.multimanpublishing.com/preorder/viewGame.php?id=70

Ooooh they're going west, freaking awesome  , to bad they didn't start with Shiloh though

Will probably order this today.

[Berkut]

I am not sure Shiloh would be a very good game at this scale - the entire battle lasted two turns.

That entire campaign though, could be pretty awesome - hard though, since much of the decision  making was very strategic, and you would have to have some rules to deal with how the Union army could make the amphibious moves they did. Not sure how that would work out...

[Caliga]

Well these are campaign games in any event. 

I guess in my mind that game would have to cover from Fts. Henry and Donelson thru the capture of Memphis and Nashville to the Seige of Corinth to be complete.  The geographic scale of that would be enormous though (maybe too big).

[Habbaku]

Of course, by having the other day end incredibly early, I am cursed to have the current day go on forever.