Category: Civil War Games – New
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Gary Grigsby’s War Between the States Nearing Completion
(Hat tip to Eddy Sterckx at the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical usenet group for the following.) A new 2by3Games developer’s journal entry was posted on March 31, 2008. On pages 2 and 3, Joel Billings discusses the new Civil War wargame entitled War Between The States (or WBTS for short) and a possible release date of some time […]
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MMP Has Barren Victory II Available for Preorder
I completely missed this one, but Multiman Publishing is now offering Barren Victory II (BVII) for preorder. BVII, which covers Chickamauga, is the latest entry in the Civil War Brigade Series (CWBS). The game looks a little pricey with an $82 preorder price, but Chickamauga is a larger battle, even at the brigade level. The […]
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GMT Games Announces a New GBACW Game on Murfreesboro (Stones River)
I received an interesting email from GMT Games last weekend offering a new game called Dead of Winter (DoW) in their “P500” program. Dead of Winter covers the late 1862 (and early 1863) battle of Murfreesboro (or Stones River). Designed by Dave Powell with an assist from Richard Berg, DoW is the newest game in […]
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Campaign Antietam Screen Shots: South Mountain
Now that I’ve had HPS‘ newly released Campaign Antietam for over a week, I wanted to post some screenshots of the various battlefields covered in the game over the course of a few posts. Despite being given the name “Campaign Antietam”, the game actually covers quite a few more battlefields, including First Bull Run (including […]
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Designer Notes for HPS’ Campaign Antietam
Hat tip to Rich Hamilton at his Gamesquad HPS Simulations blog for posting the Designer Notes for Campaign Antietam and another hat tip to Eddy Sterckx for pointing me in that direction. For those wondering what these games are all about, I have also posted the notes here. For those of you who do not […]
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Discussion of HPS’ Campaign Antietam at the Mason-Dixon Tavern
There is currently a nice discussion ongoing about HPS Simulations‘ new Civil War Battles game Campaign Antietam at the Mason-Dixon Tavern message board. The board is the official forum of the American Civil War Game Club, a group of wargamers who play all of the HPS Civil War games as well as their predecessors, the […]
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HPS Releases Campaign Antietam and Mexican-American War
HPS Simulations today released the latest title in their Civil War Battles series, Campaign Antietam, along with Mexican-American War, a title which should be of some interest to Civil War wargamers. The games are selling initially at an introductory rate of $39.95, but will eventually revert to the standard price of $49.95. Details on Antietam […]