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The Dragon and The Cross

2023-04-21T08:38:58-04:00

Vendor: Kuro Neko Design Workshop
Type: Board Games
Price: 92.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	Kuro Neko Design Workshop
Players	1-2
Additional Info	258115/dragon-and-cross http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258115/dragon-and-cross/forums/63

The Dragon and The Cross is a remake of Manchu: The Taiping Rebellion (S&T #116). This remake is newly added event cards.

Battles For the Shenandoah: A Death Valley Expansion

2022-10-30T23:31:01-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Greg Laubach
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Expansion For	Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah
Additional Info	334358/battles-shenandoah-death-valley-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/334358/battles-shenandoah-death-valley-expansion/forums/63

The Game: Battles for the Shenandoah: A Death Valley Expansion contains four battle games with multiple scenarios.

McDowell, May 8, 1862
2nd Winchester, June 13, 14, and 15, 1863
Piedmont, June 5, 1864
Cool Spring, July 18, 1864

Experienced players will be able to play many of the scenarios in one sitting. The game reflects the development of the cavalry and the changes in infantry and artillery organization and tactics from 1862 through 1864.

TIME SCALE: Each Turn = 1 Hour
MAP SCALE: 145 Yards Per Hex with 25-Foot or 50-Foot Elevations
UNIT SCALE: 50 Men or 1 Cannon per Strength Point

COMPONENTS
560 counters
Two 17” x 22” double-sided maps
Two 11” x 17” double-sided maps
One 8 1/2” x 11” map
One Battle booklet
Eight Activation and Turn Record charts
One Terrain Effects Chart
One Range Effects Chart

The remaining components necessary for play can be found in GMT’s Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah. These include the Player Aid Cards, the 2nd Disorder Chart, the game markers, four maps, and a ten-sided die. The GBACW Series Rules can be found on the GMT website.

Great Battles of Julius Caesar: Deluxe Edition

2022-07-04T07:09:48-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 114.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-360 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	323529/great-battles-julius-caesar-deluxe-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/323529/great-battles-julius-caesar-deluxe-edition/forums/63

We are proud to bring back in print two classic Great Battles of History titles in a deluxe treatment (like we did with Great Battles of Alexander and SPQR). Great Battles of Julius Caesar combines Caesar: The Civil Wars, published in 1994, and Caesar: Conquest of Gaul, published in 1996 and reprinted in 2006, into a single package along with the battles that were published as separate modules.

Great Battles of Julius Caesar will have a single rulebook brought up to the production standards of the latest GBoH titles, written so that all the land battles in the original games can be played from single rule book. The one naval battle has its own rule book.

The scenario book features 20 (!!) battles presented in a chronological order that traces the evolution of the Roman military system from early battles against various foreign foes, Caesar’s wars in Gaul followed by Caesar’s wars against his Roman rivals, and culminating with the Roman invasion of Britain a century later.

—description from the publisher

Successors: Giant Playing Mat

2022-06-04T12:20:04-04:00

Vendor: PHALANX
Type: Playmat
Price: 81.95

Alexander the Great is dead. All his most loyal generals tribute their respect to their dead king, staring at his ring, a symbol of great power... and the war of the succession is soon to come! Successors is one of the best multiplayer strategy games ever published and this new fourth edition published by Phalanx promises to become the best edition ever of this classic boardgame.

To help all the players to have the game under control, Phalanx will provide the Successors – Giant Playing Mat, an accessory set that contains 1 giant neoprene playing mat, one side printed in eco-leather) (1260 x 840 mm, 2 mm thick size) with enlarged playing areas for an easier gameplay.

With this essential game component, the game will always be well organized and in every moment every player can play their moves and actions having a perfect knowledge of the current game situation.

So prepare your armies, sharpen the blade of your tactical sixth sense, and whet your appetite for claiming your right to Alexander’s throne. There can only be one true Successor!

Contents:

1260 x 840 mm, 2 mm thick, one side printed eco-leather playing mat.

Desert Fox Deluxe

2022-03-07T05:46:25-05:00

Vendor: Decision Games (I)
Type: Board Games
Price: 134.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Chris Perello
Publisher	Decision Games (I)
Players	2
Playtime	180-2880 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	182499/desert-fox-deluxe http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/182499/desert-fox-deluxe/forums/63

Desert Fox Deluxe is a combination of two previously published games covering parts of the North African campaign–Desert Fox and Trail of the Fox–expanded with additional rules, units, and maps to cover the entire war in the North African desert from the Italian invasion of Egypt in 1940 to the final Allied clearance of Africa in 1943. The map scale is 10 miles per hex, turns cover one month each, while units are mostly regiments and brigades, with specialist battalions and a few Italian and Vichy French divisions. The turn sequence is built around a pair of move-fight impulses for each player, with separate phases for events altering the situation (like the frequent Commonwealth campaigns elsewhere in the Middle East), application of air and naval power, and initiative determination. Logistics is the paramount consideration given the vast distances. Fast and furious action alternates with quiet periods as both sides strive to build up forces and supplies.

Components: Three 17" x 22", two 8.5" x 22", one 11" x 17" map & 560 counters

S&T #300, August 2016

Boxed edition in 2019 added cards to better depict the impact of off map events (like Greece, and East Africa) on reinforcement and withdrawals. 20 cards for the Axis and 28 cards for the Allies. Also adds a Support Booklet, and a Campaign Analysis Booklet.

Into the Woods: The Battle of Shiloh

2022-01-12T14:38:40-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 54.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Richard Whitaker
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Suggested Age	16 and up
Additional Info	300036/woods-battle-shiloh http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/300036/woods-battle-shiloh/forums/63

"Into the Woods: the Battle of Shiloh" is the eighth installment of the Great Battles of the American Civil War (GBACW) series, published by GMT Games.

The Great Battles of the American Civil War Series:
This series is one of the hobby’s longest-lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental level Gettysburg game – Terrible Swift Sword (SPI) – designed by Richard Berg in 1976. Under GMT, the rules system has remained stable, but has shown remarkable flexibility to allow each game to smoothly incorporate additional rules to reflect the historical battles. The series relies on interactive chit-pull mechanics to simulate the often chaotic nature of the 19th Century battlefield at the regimental level.

Into the Woods: the Battle of Shiloh includes ten scenarios. They range from division level contests on half sized maps to two-map battles depicting both the first and second day of the struggle. Experienced players will be able to play many of the scenarios in one sitting. The game reflects the Confederate surprise, the "greenness" of many units on both sides, as well as the unique role Albert Sidney Johnston played in the Confederate attack.

TIME SCALE: Each Turn = 1 Hour
MAP SCALE: 110 Yards Per Hex with 20-Foot Elevations
UNIT SCALE: 50 Men or 1 Cannon per Strength Point

COMPONENTS

1120 counters
Two 22” x 34” double-sided maps
One GBACW series rules booklet
One Battle booklet
Two Activation and Turn Record charts
Two Player Aid Cards
Two Terrain Effects Charts
Two 2nd Disorder Charts
Two 10-sided dice (blue and grey)

-description from publisher's website

Successors (Fourth Edition)

2021-12-27T09:13:41-05:00

Vendor: PHALANX
Type: Board Games
Price: 104.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Simonitch
Publisher	PHALANX
Players	2-5
Playtime	300 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessories	Successors: Giant Playing Mat
Additional Info	325348/successors-fourth-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/325348/successors-fourth-edition/forums/63

When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left no clear heir to the immense empire he had conquered. It was not long after his death that the Macedonian generals began to war among themselves over who would be the regent or successor to Alexander's empire. By 305 BC they had given up on succession and began to carve out their own kingdoms. Successors is a 2-4 player game based on those wars.

Successors was first published in 1997 by Avalon Hill. Some years later a second edition rulebook was published that gave more options for the Tyche cards. Successors III built on the foundation of the Successors II rules set plus expansion cards that appeared in the Boardgamer.

The fourth edition of Successors includes more generals, more scenarios, new Tyche cards, plenty of new components, and a changed map, with Libya and Cyrene being merged.

Simple Great Battles of History (2nd Edition)

2021-03-19T11:40:23-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 27.95

Designers	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playing Time	90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Caesar: Conquest of Gaul CAESAR: The Great Battles of Julius Caesar – The Civil Wars 48-45 B.C. Cataphract The Great Battles of Alexander The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition SPQR

Simple GBoH 2nd Edition Highlights

The ZOC Rules were modified to address some odd looking situations that can arise during play, and to simplify the rules language. ZOC effects have been aligned with the standard game. Shock is now mandatory for active units that have enemy units in their ZOC; being in an enemy ZOC is not relevant.
An In Command unit may leave a hex adjacent to an enemy unit, but cannot move adjacent to an enemy unit during that Player Turn. Out of Command units are pinned to the hex they are in if adjacent to enemy unit but may change facing.
Two-hex units may Reverse Face in reaction to enemy movement in a similar manner to single-hex units, albeit with a higher cost of failure.
Offensive Javelin Missile Fire is limited to H&R Tactics and defensive (reaction) Javelin Missile Fire as Return Fire against H&R Javelin fire only.
Elephant Screens are now active in Reaction Fire.
The Elephant Rampage DR generated by a Missile hit has been removed; Elephant units incur 2 Hits instead (as do Chariot units). Elephants do not Retreat from Shock, but instead incur 2 Hits.
Weapons System Matrix reworked to better reflect the results from the standard game tables. Certain types (Archers, etc.) are no longer Shock capable.
Shock Resolution & Results: Hits and Moving DRMs have been eliminated along with the Reduction result.
Column Movement rules brought up to date.

Playbook Changes

SPQR, Alexander (including the two new scenarios), and Caesar/Gaul scenarios modified to match the current editions of those volumes.
Most scenarios have modifications to the Formation charts, Seizure Ratings, and/or special rules.
Summary page with modifications to Simple GBoH scenarios published in other volumes/modules and C3i

Simple Great Battles of History (Simple GBoH) allows gamers to recreate the significant battles of the ancient Western world covered by GMT's Great Battles of History (GBoH) Series. Simple GBoH is designed for players who want a faster, less die-roll-heavy version of the GBoH system, while retaining as much of the historical flavor and insight of the original rules. These rules and its companion playbook cover all the battles published in Deluxe Great Battles of Alexander, SPQR, Caesar: The Civil Wars, Caesar: Conquest of Gaul, Cataphract, and all their related modules. The battles presented in C3i are published in the Simple GBoH Battle Manual.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This rules book is self-contained; you do not need the original GBoH rulebooks to play this version...although the former does contain interesting Design and Historical notes. Most of the rules and mechanics which are part and parcel of all previous GBoH series land battles have either been changed or are not here anymore.

Game Components

OTHER

16-page Rule Book
52-page Play Book
1 11x17" Charts and Tables folio

Men of Iron Tri-Pack

2020-04-22T22:27:05-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 91.95

Designers	Richard H. Berg Jack Polonka Mike Lemick Ralph Shelton
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Playing Time	60-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	293959/men-iron-tri-pack http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/293959/men-iron-tri-pack/forums/63

The first three games in the Men of Iron Series: Men of Iron, Infidel, and Blood & Roses, plus the Battle of Agincourt from C3i #22.

The game that started it all, Men of Iron, covers the re-emergence of infantry in the early 14th century, along with a more perceptive understanding of the value of combined-arms warfare and the effective use of defensive terrain. The scenarios highlight the key elements that made these battles so fascinating: the defensive power of the longbow, especially when used in coordination with dismounted, or even mounted, men-at-arms. Agincourt covers Henry V’s famous victory during the Hundred Years War.

The second volume in the Men of Iron series, Infidel, focuses on the major battles of the early Crusades era between Christians and the Muslims. This is a period that saw cavalry reign supreme and pitted the European mounted, armored men-at-arms - which relied on furious and direct charges with sword and lance - against the Eastern European/Turkish light cavalry tactics - focusing on the efficiency of its mounted archers.

Blood & Roses focuses on the battles of the Wars of the Roses in England, between 1455 and 1487. This was warfare in which most men were truly "of iron", heavily and totally armored to such a point that their mobility was suspect. It also featured the introduction of gunpowder – mostly field artillery – in noticeable numbers. And while many English men-at-arms were mounted, they did so almost entirely for transport. Most fighting was on foot … and it was quite vicious.

There will be a series rulebook, with a few rules still applying only to a specific game, and the games will have all errata applied to their battle book. The color setups a la Blood & Roses and Arquebus: Men of Iron Volume IV will show up in all battle books. Men of Iron will see some battle changes, a few of which will involve new/changed counters.

The series is designed for quick learning and easy play. Game rules are short, there are no turns - play is continual, with opportunities to steal play from your opponent - and combat resolution is a single dieroll. Playing time is about 1-to-3 hours per battle.

The series is also for the gamer who enjoys playing solitaire. The system is designed for both individual and face-to-face play without any loss in insight or fun. It allows a player or players to see what happened in these famous battles and why. There are no purpose-built solitaire rules, but many players play that way.

The units feature longbows, crossbows, men-at-arms (mounted, dismounted, and unhorsed), hobilars, genitors, nasty Scots with axes, slingers, pike infantry, knights, heavy cavalry, medium cavalry, light cavalry archers, archers, camp followers, handgunners, and artillery! And the commanders! The great English King, Edward III and his son, The Black Prince, William Wallace and The Bruce, Captal de Buch. Crusaders Stephen of Blois, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond of Toulouse, Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, the leper King Baldwin IV, Raynald of Chatillon, and King Richard I. Saracen leaders Kilij Arslan, Kerbogha, Atabeg of Mosul, Fatimid Vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, Soqman the Artukid of Diyar-Bakr and Aleppo, and Saladin. King Henry VI, Richard, Duke of York, King Edward IV, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, King Richard III, and Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond (and founder of the Tudor dynasty).

The battles included in the Men of Iron tri-pack are:

Dorylaeum – Northwest Anatolia, 1 July 1097 - The Crusader line of march, including the people’s Crusade and Peter the hermit, as well as all the great 1st Crusade Leaders, are “ambushed” by Kilij Arslan and his crack Seljuk cavalry.
Antioch – Northern Syrian, 28 June 1098 - The exhausted, starving and depleted Crusaders – they had few horses left – have just taken Antioch and are now faced with a large Turkish army, under Kerbogha, sent to retake the city.
Ascalon – Southern Palestine, 12 August 1099 - The Crusaders, having seized Jerusalem, turn south to fend off the suddenly active large army of the Fatimids, with their crack Mamluk heavy cavalry.
Harran – Crusader Kingdom of Antioch/Edessa, 7 May 1104 - Baldwin II of Edessa seeks to maintain control of his little kingdom in northern Syria, something Soqman, Atabeg of Damascus, is not happy to allow. One of the first major Crusader defeats.
Montgisard – Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, 25 November 1177 - Saladin attempts to destroy a small army from the Kingdom of Jerusalem with an army more than five times its size. Though there are only 400 knights, the Crusaders are led by the remarkable Baldwin IV, The Leper King. The outcome - one of the greatest Crusader victories. See if you can carry off this stunning upset!
Arsuf - Ayyubid Kingdom of Jerusalem, 7 September 1191 - The classic battle between Richard I Lionheart and the Ayyubid Army of Saladin highlighting the major facets of each army in an unusual moving battle.
Falkirk - Scotland, 22 July 1298 - Wallace's great disaster, despite his massive schiltron. Good infantry is fine, but it needs support. The ultimate solitaire scenario.
Courtrai - Flanders, 11 July 1302 - The Battle of the Golden Spurs. The Flemish shook the elite French army with one of the earliest displays of the power of solid infantry using defensive positions.
Bannockburn - Scotland, 23-24 June 1314 - Robert the Bruce's famous triumph over a numerically superior, but literally bogged down English army.
Crecy - France, 26 August 1346 - The first great battle of the Hundred Years War. It showed that infantry, supported by archers, could defeat the best knights in Europe.
Poitiers - France, 19 September 1356 - The French fight dismounted this time and almost win. But the longbow, and solid English infantry prevail again.
Najera - Castile, 3 April 1367 - The Black Prince goes to Spain with a marvelous combined arms force to further English plans of "expansion".
Agincourt – Artois, 25 October 1415 – Henry V wins a mighty victory against the flower of French chivalry.
1st St. Albans – Herefordshire, 22 May 1455 - Marks the first major engagement in the Wars of the Roses. Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated the Lancastrians under Edmund, Duke of Somerset, who was killed during the battle. York also captured Henry VI and forced Henry to appoint him Constable of England
Blore Heath – Staffordshire, 23 September 1459 - Greatly outnumbered Yorkist infantry used the longbow and a defensive position to drive off the Lancastrian Men-at-Arms.
2nd St. Albans – Herefordshire, 17 February 1461 - The Lancastrians drove the Yorkists out of the town and then destroyed Warwick’s strangely deployed army, even when sturdily defended by hedges, caltrops and spiked netting.
Towton – Yorkshire, 29 March 1461 - Easily biggest battle in the box and the biggest in the entire series. It uses over 200 combat units and, much like the actual battle, will probably take a long time to play. It is mostly crash and bash, with little room for maneuver, all fought in a blinding snowstorm!!
Barnet – Greater London Area, 14 April 1471 - A classic battle of planned deployments, but overlapping wings, cries of treason in the lines, fog of war (actual fog), and the excellent use of reserves.
Tewksbury – Gloucestershire, 4 May 1471 - A battle that shows one of the key terrain features of the battles in this era, extensive hedges and thick underbrush in otherwise clear fields.
Bosworth – Leicestershire, 22 August 1485 - The best-known battle of the wars and the tragic (I think) death of King Richard III in a battle he should have won. Using the latest information as to where the battle took place, let’s see if you can cancel out the Tudor dynasty.

—description from the publisher

Cataphract (2nd Printing)

2019-12-27T07:50:48-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 84.95

Designers	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	360 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	1999 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Boardgame Nominee
Expansion	Simple Great Battles of History (2nd Edition)
Additional Info	1883/cataphract http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1883/cataphract/forums/63

Cataphract is defined as a heavily armored cavalryman modelled either on the Sarmatians (cataphractarius) or the Persians (clibanarius). He was the ultimate mounted armored warrior of the ancient world, trained in both shock and missile combat.

Cataphract portrays the development of the art of war wrought by the early Byzantine Empire, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, under his great Generals, Belisarius and Narses. During this period the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, for a brief period of time, re-captured a large portion of what was formerly the Western Roman Empire. Although successful in its attempts to reconquer Italy and North Africa, the Byzantine Empire's resources were insufficient to hold on to its gains.

Cataphract covers all the major battles that defined this era. To place these battles in their proper historical context, the Campaign Game, Justinian, is enclosed, which covers the quest to reconquer the Roman Empire under one ruler.

Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah

2019-09-04T13:21:40-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Greg Laubach
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	300-1200 mins
Suggested Age	16 and up
Expansion	Battles For the Shenandoah: A Death Valley Expansion
Additional Info	240905/death-valley-battles-shenandoah http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/240905/death-valley-battles-shenandoah/forums/63

Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah is the seventh installment of the Great Battles of the American Civil War (GBACW) series, published by GMT Games.

Death Valley: Battles for the Shenandoah contains eight battle games with multiple scenarios. They range from division level contests on half sized maps to two map battles between armies. Experienced players will be able to play many of the scenarios in one sitting. The rules compare the development of the cavalry, and the changes in infantry and artillery organization and tactics in 1862 and 1864.

Three Battles of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862
In a campaign still studied in military academies, Confederate General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson engaged and defeated the Union forces pursuing him. Greatly outnumbered and at times facing three Union armies, Jackson defeated them all within ten weeks, at one point completely freeing the Shenandoah Valley of Union forces. Three battles from Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign are featured.

Kernstown, March 23, 1862
Winchester, May 25, 1862
Cross Keys and Port Republic, June 8-9, 1862

Five Battles of the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864

New Market, May 15, 1864
2nd Kernstown, July 24, 1864
3rd Winchester, September 19, 1864
Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864
Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864

The Great Battles of the American Civil War Series:

This series is one of the hobby’s longest-lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental level Gettysburg game – Terrible Swift Sword (SPI) – designed by Richard Berg in 1976. Under GMT, the rules system has remained stable, but has shown remarkable flexibility to allow each game to smoothly incorporate additional rules to reflect the historical battles. The series relies on interactive chit-pull mechanics to simulate the oftentimes-chaotic nature of the 19th Century battlefield at the regimental level.

Changes have been made to the series rules for Death Valley in order to enhance their clarity and simulation value. Veteran players will find the revised rules to be very familiar, with the main differences being in the user-friendliness of the rulebook, as well as how the game "feels", especially for players versed in Civil War tactics.

Components:
1960 counters
Three 22" x 34" double-sided maps
Two 17" x 22" double-sided maps
One GBACW series rules booklet
Two Battle booklets
Sixteen Activation and Turn Record charts
Two Player Aid Cards
One Terrain Effects Chart
One 2nd Disorder Chart
Two 10-sided dice

TIME SCALE: Each Turn = 1 Hour
MAP SCALE: 145 Yards Per Hex with 25-Foot Elevations
UNIT SCALE: 50 Men or 1 Cannon per Strength Point

description from GMT website

Diadochoi: Great Battles of Alexander Module

2019-03-19T14:14:42-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 19.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	240 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion for	The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition

Diadochoi covers the four major battles that took place during the early Diadochoi wars at the end of the 4th Century BC as Alexander the Great's marshals jostled and fought for position and control of his vast empire. Each of the diadochoi, the so-called 'successors', sought to expand upon and improve the Macedonian system of warfare so brilliantly used by Alexander. Ultimately, all they succeeded in doing was to rigidly formalize its elements, adding only hordes of elephants, the ultimate expression of which was the massive battle of Ipsus, the largest known elephant battle in history."

Expansion module for the Great Battles of Alexander, Deluxe Edition. Part of the Great Battles of History (GBoH) series.

SPQR (Deluxe Edition) (2nd Printing)

2018-09-25T15:38:07-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 104.95

Designers	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	240 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	Simple Great Battles of History (2nd Edition)
Additional Info	21551/spqr-deluxe-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21551/spqr-deluxe-edition/forums/63

SPQR Deluxe Edition
19 Battles! (including 5 from the Barbarian module)
6 doublesided maps
6 counter sheets
Rules for SPQR and Modules

Battles (and the modules they appeared in originally):

Beneventum, Bagradas, Cannae, Zama, and Cynocephalae (SPQR)
Baecula, Ilipa (Africanus)
Trebbia, Metaurus (Consul for Rome)
Magnesia (War Elephant)
Heraclea, Asculum (Pyrrhic Victory)
Muthul River, Cirta (Jugurtha)
NEW 6/18/18 All battles from the Barbarian! module

Medieval

2018-07-04T13:23:18-04:00

Vendor: HGN Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Ralph Shelton
Publisher	HGN Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	90-180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	227502/medieval http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/227502/medieval/forums/63

Wage war, unleash the plague, excommunicate the unworthy, and drive back the Mongol hordes.

You are the head of a cabal—bent on controlling provinces, kingdoms, and of the Medieval world through skulduggery and outright conquest.

The object? Spread your influence by controlling regions of Europe, the East, and North Africa—all while driving back the Mongol hordes.

Your turn consists of playing action cards (some mandatory some optional), collecting income and attacking opponents. All with the goal of acquiring more provinces. Provinces provide income for you and are how the game is won. The game ends after the 7th attack by the Mongols (a non-player power that attacks from the East).

This second edition of Medieval features a full-on graphic and component overhaul of the original, mounted map (in lieu of cards), streamlined rules, and new optional rules for games with one, two, and six players.

Battles with the Gringos, Mexico 1846-62

2018-03-28T19:29:38-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 8.95

Designer	John Alsen Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	180 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Gringo!
Additional Info	26646/battles-gringos-mexico-1846-62 http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26646/battles-gringos-mexico-1846-62/forums/63

For everyone who enjoyed all the battles in GRINGO, as well as any gamer who is looking for small, interesting, unusual and fast-playing battles of any era, here is a module that provides all of that.

Battles with the Gringos fills in most of the blanks - the important battles we had to leave out - for our coverage of The Mexican War. And, in addition to providing the usual rules clarifications and updates, we have added a rule for using Skirmishers that will be usable in all games in the GBACW system.

But it's the battles that make the game, and we have four half-map engagements that are each different, each with its own, unusual terrain, each with a set of problems facing both players. And each battle takes only a couple of hours, as well as being very playable solitaire.

Palo Alto: May 8, 1846. The opening battle of the war, what looks to be a straightforward Napoleonic battle line special but ends up nothing of the sort, thanks to Ringgold's "flying artillery", grass fires, and a cast of most unusual characters.

Resaca de la Palma: May 9, 1846. A numerically superior Mexican force in an extremely strong defensive position, mostly hidden from the incoming Americans. One of the most unusual battlefields in gaming, the scenario is given a variety of gaming possibilities as well as two-player hidden deployment.
Contreras: August 20, 1847. An assumedly unassailable and unapproachable Mexican position is trumped by some great scouting work by a young Robert E. Lee, resulting in a Mexican rout. But it did not have to happen that way. Maybe Santa Anna will use his reserves to negate the American attack. Maybe it will turn out completely differently.

Puebla: May 5, 1862. A venture into another way, for the battle that resulted in the well-known Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo. A strong division of veteran French soldiers, fighting for the Emperor Maximilian, attack a nicely-defended Mexican position right outside this important, of-fought-over city. Cavalry charges, assaults on forts, and a rather prescient use of trenches result in a nicely balanced game.
Components

Two 33"x22" mapsheets (each with 2 battles)
One sheet of counters
Battle Rules

You will need GRINGO to play the battles herein.

Simple GBoH

2018-01-15T19:49:20-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 21.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	1347/simple-gboh http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1347/simple-gboh/forums/63

A significant simplification of GMT's popular Great Battles of History series, this is a set of rules that allows you to play scenarios from many of the various GBOH games and their expansion modules. Many of the more fiddly aspects of the system have been dramatically simplified (shock combat, missile combat, orderly withdrawal, elephants, leader activation), or eliminated entirely (rout/rally, individual orders, strategy ratings, momentum, trumping). The rules for SGBOH are the same across all the GBOH settings, so there is no problem moving from game to game. Scenarios also play much faster, from 1-3 hours instead of the old 4 hrs and up. Scenarios provided list approximate playing times as well as balance assessments for all the scenarios (of 53 scenarios, 11 are rated as "even").

Note that this is not a standalone game; ownership of at least one GBOH title is required.

Games that only require SGBOH rules (have SGBOH scenarios and game-specific rules included)
- Chandragupta
- Chariots of Fire
- Devil's Horsemen
- Hoplite

Games requiring SGBOH playbook
- Alexander
- SPQR
- Caesar: The Civil Wars
- Caesar: Conquest of Gaul
- Cataphract

Games requiring SGBOH battle manual
- Many C3i scenarios from above

Games that are not supported by SGBOH
- Ran
- Samurai
- Lion of the North
- War Galley
- Caesar in Alexandria - but it is very SGBOH-like apparently
- Siege of Alesia

Contents:

- Simple Great Battles of History Rules (Nov. 2004 edition has updates for several scenarios)
- Simple Great Battles of History Charts
- Simple Great Battles of History Playbook containing SGBOH scenarios for Alexander, SPQR, Julius Caesar, Conquest of Gaul and Cataphract.

GMT in March, 2017 released a new Second Edition of Simple GBoH.

Arquebus: Men of Iron Volume IV

2017-10-24T17:28:19-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	60-300 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	198087/arquebus-men-iron-volume-iv http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/198087/arquebus-men-iron-volume-iv/forums/63

From the publisher:

Northern Italy - and especially Milan - at the end of the 15th century was the brutal focal point for power and control between France and the Imperialist empires of Venice and Spain. And the battles fought for this prize are a record of the changing face of how war was fought.

At the start of the 'war', the main forces were mounted men-at-arms and a tightly packed and closed formation of pike, especially as represented by the Swiss. But as battle churned into battle, that slowly changed. Firepower, in the form of the arquebus (an early musket) became increasingly prevalent and dominant, forcing the closed pike formations to open up, as the Spanish did (with sword and buckler), and the reliance on heavily mounted cavalry to decrease.

Arquebus shows all of this in true die-rolling glory, featuring 8 major battles: Fornovo, Cerignola, Agnadello, Ravenna, Marignano, Bicocca, Pavia, and Ceresole. These are all really great game-players, with all but two of them half-mappers playable in 3 hours or less. The other two are the 'tiny' page-sized (8" x 11") Cerignola and the big one-mapper, the major, final battle of Pavia. Pavia was a crushing defeat wherein France lost over 50% of its army and almost all of its nobility of command, including her king, Francis I, who was captured. But for gamers, Pavia is wonderful gameplay, with units all over the greatly detailed map, much maneuver and many tough decisions to make.

Arquebus uses the popular "Men of Iron" mechanics with much concentration on detail of weaponry, from the differences between closed formation and open, to the decline of the Swiss (pas d'argent? pas de Suisse), and the rise of the German Landsknecht, the major force in warfare of the era and, ironically, the best-dressed men in Europe. Yes, Landsknecht uniforms literally set the fashion trend at the time for the entire western world.

Dead of Winter (second edition) (GMT Games)

2017-08-17T23:15:53-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 33.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg David A. Powell
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	35477/dead-winter-second-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35477/dead-winter-second-edition/forums/63

Dead of Winter is GMT’s recreation of Richard Berg’s “Great Battles of the American Civil War series” series title on the battle of Murfreesboro; also known as The Battle of Stone’s River to Union Veterans. Perhaps one of the most evenly matched battles of the war, Murfreesboro/Stone’s River pitted the Federal Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Starke Rosecrans against the Confederate Army of Tennessee captained by General Braxton Bragg. With near parity of numbers (each side fielded roughly 40,000 men) and remarkably similar battle plans, both armies grappled in the December cold for control of Middle Tennessee.

The Series:

The GBACW Series is one of the hobby’s longest lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental Level Gettysburg game - Terrible Swift Sword - created by Richard Berg in 1976. Since then, the series has undergone numerous system evolutions, always seeking to enhance the player’s illusion of reality. Today, the series relies on inter-active chit-pull mechanics to simulate the sometimes chaotic nature of the 19th Century battlefield. GMT's Red Badge Of Courage and Gringo! Are the two most recent releases in this classic line of games.

The Game:
Dead of Winter II completely revisits this battle. The old version needed a face-lift. The biggest change is in returning the ground scale to 110 yards per hex. While going to the larger scale means an increase in maps, the added elbow room allows for much more historical unit frontages and more playable stacking.
One Introductory and ten regular scenarios examine every aspect of the historical battle and present the players with several plausible alternative situations based on events leading up to the actual engagement. Scenario sizes range from one-half of one map and an hour to play, to all four maps and many enjoyable gaming hours. Also included are a number of optional forces that could have plausibly been brought into the fight; Keep your opponent guessing as to what he will face next with this interesting range of options.

The Team:
While Richard Berg remains the final authority for all things GBACW, and John Alsen continues his invaluable role in the development of each title, Dead of Winter II adds one more well-known gaming name to the mix: Designer Dave Powell. Dave has designed more than a dozen civil war simulation games with The Gamers, Inc, (now owned by MMP.) Dave has always loved the GBACW since the moment he first opened the box for TSS, and welcomed the chance to bring his design talents and historical skills to the Dead of Winter project.

Game Design: Dave Powell
Series Design: Richard H. Berg
Developer: John Alsen

Pax Romana

2015-08-31T02:56:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 65.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	600 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2006 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Boardgame Nominee 2006 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee 2007 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	17393/pax-romana https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/8038/pax-romana/reviews

How did Rome get to be Rome? Why did the Glory That Was Greece fade? What stopped Carthage from making an empire of the Mediterranean? Could the Seleucids really have conquered the western world?

PAX ROMANA covers Europe from 300 BC through the end of the 1st century BC, when control of the Mediterranean was in a state of flux with four empires possible. The emphasis is on strategic operations, from raising armies to colonizing outlying areas, to fighting barbarian incursions, to maintaining political stability at home.
PAX uses a unique marker-oriented play sequence that provides surprise and opportunity, plus a deck of unusual cards that provide the historical background of events and calamities within which the players must operate.

PAX provides wide variety of scenarios, from fast-playing, one-sitting two-player games to vivid recreations of the entire era with four players. The game works well with 2, 3 or 4 players, and is designed to be playable solitaire for those interested in the historical view it provides. Scenarios range from The Punic Wars, through the Eastern Med conflicts between the Greeks and the Seleucids, all the way up to the entire 10 turn game, covering 300 years of history. In addition, there are two versions of PAX: the Standard Game, designed for fast play, and the Advanced version, which adds in much tangential history and allows for a more introspective examination of the era.

PAX ROMANA includes one gamemap, 55 cards, 400+ counters, and a host of play aids and charts to keep things organized.

Genesis: Empires and Kingdoms of the Ancient Middle East

2015-08-10T04:24:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2-5
Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	450-600 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Honors	2015 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	86177/genesis-bronze-age https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/893449/genesis-bronze-age/reviews

Genesis is a game covering the turbulent Late Bronze Age in the Middle East, where kingdoms rose and fell while establishing many of the systems and ways of life that underwrite Western Civilization. Genesis is not a simulation of events during this era. Much like its ancestor game, Pax Romana, Genesis is a game that provides the players with the historical dramatis personae and allows them to forge their own empires. It also has a great emphasis on the control of the important trade routes and commercial centers and the building of the spectacular monuments these civilizations left for posterity and wonder. Genesis can be played by from one to five gamers.

Each player represents one of the major Mesopotamian Bronze Age empires: Egypt, The Hittites, The Mitanni, Assyria, Babylonia. There are several “minor” kingdoms that come into play through the use of the Event Cards: Arzawa (Apasa. Milawata, Mallarima, Mira, Hindawa, Hapalla, ), Canaan (Hazor, Qatna, Meggido and Kadesh), and Elam (Susa).

Each is trying to expand its economic reach, allowing them to build their empire to greater levels . . . .and this will mean coming into inimical contact with each other. Gods play a major role, as do the great caravan centers of the age,bringing in luxury items from as far away as what would be Afghanistan. And then there are the peasants and slaves which who can be most useful (some times), as well as the great techno advantages in chariotry.

Blood & Roses

2015-06-08T18:54:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 50.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	120 mins
Honors	2014 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	132019/blood-roses http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1311870/blood-roses/reviews

Blood & Roses focuses on the battles of the Wars of the Roses in England, between 1455 and 1487. This was warfare in which most men were truly "of iron", heavily and totally armored to such a point that their mobility was suspect. It was also the introduction of gunpowder – mostly field artillery – in noticeable numbers. And while many English men-at-arms were mounted, they did so almost entirely for transport. Most fighting was on foot … and it was quite vicious.

Historical Note: The game’s title refers to the heavy casualty rates and the names given to many of the fields after the battles: Bloody Meadow, Bloody Field, et al.

Blood & Roses is designed for quick learning and easy play. Game rules are short, there are no "turns" - play is Continual, with ample opportunities to steal play from your opponent - and combat resolution is a single dieroll. Playing time is about 1-2 hours, per battle.

Battles:

1st St. Albans (22 May 1455) marks the first major engagement in the Wars of the Roses. Richard, Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, defeated the Lancastrians under Edmund, Duke of Somerset, who was killed during the battle. York also captured Henry VI and forced Henry to appoint him Constable of England.
Blore Heath (23 September, 1459) where greatly outnumbered Yorkist infantry used the longbow and a defensive position to drive off the Lancastrian Men-at-Arms.
2nd St. Albans (17 February, 1461) where the Lancastrians drove the Yorkists out of the town and then destroyed Warwick’s strangely deployed army, even when sturdily defended by hedges, caltrops and spiked netting.
Towton (29 March, 1461) is easily biggest battle in the box and the biggest in the entire series. It uses over 200 combat units and, much like the actual battle, will probably take a long time to play. It is mostly crash and bash, with little room for maneuver, all fought in a blinding snowstorm!!
Barnet (14 April, 1471) a classic battle of planned deployments, but overlapping wings, cries of treason in the lines, fog of war (actual fog), and the excellent use of reserves.
Tewksbury (4 May, 1471) a battle that shows one of the key terrain features of the battles in this era, extensive hedges and thick underbrush in otherwise clear fields.
Bosworth(22 August, 1485) the best-known battle of the wars and the tragic (I think) death of King Richard III in a battle he should have won. Using the latest information as to where the battle took place, let’s see if you can cancel out the Tudor dynasty.

Each game includes:

Two double-sided 22" x 32"game-maps
2.5 sheets of counters
Rules Booklet
Battle Book
Charts and Play Aids
2 ten-sided dice

Designer: RICHARD H. BERG
Developer: Ralph Shelton

Hoplite

2015-06-08T14:29:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2-9
Playtime	240 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Honors	2014 Golden Geek Best Wargame Nominee
Additional Info	145975/hoplite http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1436445/hoplite/reviews

Hoplite, the 15th volume in the Great Battles of History series of games, allows players to recreate classic battles from the pre-Alexandrian Persian-Hellenistic Age, the heyday of the Hoplite (heavy infantry fighting in packed formation). This period is often considered to feature the birth of Western Warfare, as opposed to the Persian/Eastern style, which relied on archery , light cavalry, and mobility.

Exactly how hoplite warfare was fought – what really happened when “the bell rang” – is highly disputed by ancient military historians, even today. Hoplite allows you to test out your theories (well, our theories, using your dice) with eleven of the great battles of this era, from the Battle of Leuctra, featuring the huge 60-man deep phalanx of Beotarch Epaminondas to the classic confrontations with the Persian missile-armed troops against the classic Greek hoplite phalanxes.

Hoplite uses detailed mechanics meant to convey all the possibilities of this style of warfare, from The Hellenic Law of Inertia, to Drift to the Right, to the special capabilities of the Persian Light Cavalry (Harassment and Dispersal) to three different levels of Hoplite advance to Combat (the Run Don’t Walk rules) and a whole lot more. We even still have some good old chariots!

And you get to fight what was the biggest land battle in European history up until Napoleonic times, the immense Battle of Plataea (truly the deciding engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars): two maps and about 250 combat counters covering The Greek Contingents from 26 City-States under Pausanias, Spartan Regent and General, vs. The Persians, Medes, Asians (Bactrians, Scythians, Indians and a whole lot of others) and seven Medized Greek city-states, under Mardonius, Persian Commander and son-in-law of The Great King, Darius I.

The package includes Simple GBoH versions for each of the battles along with special rules that highlight the hoplite style of warfare.

Hoplite is the ultimate board game simulation on the birth of Western Warfare. And it lets you see how we stack up with the latest (June 2013) book on the subject:

Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, Donald Kagan (Editor), Gregory F. Viggiano (Editor)

Components:

3 22 x 34" back printed maps
4 Counter Sheets (1,120 1/2" counters)
1 Rules Book
1 Scenario Book
2 player aid folio cards (standard rules)
1 player aid card (Simple GBoH rules)
1 ten-sided die
plastic counter storage bags

Game scale: 100 yards per hex

Players: 1 to 4 – Plataea (no solo rules; Plataea could hold up to nine actually)

Playing Time: 1 ½ to 8 hours

Battles:

Cunaxa
Delium
Ephesus
Leuctra
Mantinea
Marathon
Mycale
Plataea
Nemea
Coronea
Tanagra

Simple GBoH Battle Manual

2015-06-08T14:04:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman Rodger B. MacGowan
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	2
Playtime	25 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	25603/simple-gboh-battle-manual https://boardgamegeek.com/forum/81351/simple-gboh-battle-manual/reviews

This special C3i Magazine (RBM) publication contains Simple GBoH versions of every GBoH battle that has been included in the back issues of C3i Magazine from issue No. 1 through 14, and also the "C3i - SPQR Player's Guide".

Fifty five GBoH battles are featured in this new publication. These scenarios run the gamut from the early hoplite battles from the Persian Wars (Marathon, Plataea) through the Roman disaster at Teutoburg Forest during the reign of Augustus Caesar.

The C3i "SimpleGBoH Battle Manual" consists of a playbook in the same style as the original SBGoH packet, plus a sheet of 259 counters to include the additional leaders needed to play the C3i scenarios, along with the few markers that are unique to the Simple GBoH system. Also included is a completely updated rule book/charts folio incorporating the latest errata and clarifications.

Although the rules are self-contained, one must have copies of the appropriate Great Battles of History game and/or module as well as the C3i article (the articles for the out of print back issues of C3i Magazine are available free, as PDF files, at the GMT Games website). And note that the original SGBoH packet is still available, providing conversions for the previously published GBoH games and modules.

The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition (New Edition)

2015-04-19T01:18:00-04:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 119.95

Designers	Richard H. Berg Mark Herman
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	240 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansions	Phalanx: Great Battles of Alexander Module Diadochoi: Great Battles of Alexander Module Simple Great Battles of History (2nd Edition)
Honors	1991 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	11057/great-battles-alexander-deluxe-edition http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/20035/great-battles-alexander-deluxe-edition/reviews

Note on Expanded Deluxe Edition 2nd Printing: This edition will be identical to the previous version except that any known errata will be corrected AND the out of print Tyrant module will be included at no additional cost!

The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition, the updated, expanded, full-color-enhanced version of the best-selling, multi-award-winning game system that started the Great Battles of History series, includes new game counters, maps, packaging, battles, and scenarios that cover all the major battles from the original game and the Juggernaut module, plus five additional battles ... ten in all. The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition is virtually the complete history of Alexander the Great and the Macedonian art of war.

Game features:

Third Edition rules, with many changes and additions
New maps for The Granicus and Chaeronea, plus an expanded Gaugamela map
Armies for the Danubian tribes, Illyrians, Greeks, Persians, Scythians, and Indians
Eighteen new Macedonian Commanders
New Restricted Line Command system for Persians, Indians and Greeks
Wing Commanders and Macedonian Contingent Commanders
Cavalry Shock Formations: The Companion Wedge and the Thessalian Diamond
The Persian Immortals and Kinsmen, Macedonian artillery, cataphracted cavalry ... and cataphracted elephants!

Components:

720 full-color two-sided counters (43 full-color two-sided double-size counters)
Three full-color double-sided 22x34" map sheets
One 10-sided die
32-page Rule Book
24-page Scenario Book
Player Aid Cards: Two 8.5x11" cards showing game charts & tables

TIME SCALE: 20 minutes per turn
MAP SCALE: 70 yards per hex
UNIT SCALE: 100 men per strength point
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: One to four

Twin Peaks

2014-11-08T02:07:00-05:00

Vendor: GMT Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 39.95

Designer	Richard H. Berg
Publisher	GMT Games
Players	1-6
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	149793/twin-peaks http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1499699/twin-peaks/reviews

Twin Peaks is the seventh installment in the Great Battles of the American Civil War (GBACW) series, published by GMT Games. Two full battles are included:

Cedar Mountain
August 9th, 1862. With the Peninsular Campaign winding down, Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Maj. Gens. Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill to attack Maj. Gen. John Pope’s new Federal Army of Virginia with 27,000 troops.

Gen. John Pope, hoping to draw attention away from Maj. Gen. George McClellan’s withdrawal from the Peninsula, moved against the rail junction at Gordonsville, Va. Stonewall Jackson found USA Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks’s division isolated. Jackson crossed the Rapidan River to engage. Pope ordered Brig. Gen. James Ricketts’s division to unite with Banks’s forces on high ground near Cedar Run, seven miles south of the town of Culpeper. These two forces met in the afternoon heat.

South Mountain
September 14th, 1862. After the CSA success at Second Bull Run Gen. Robert E. Lee believed the demoralized USA armies could not respond to any bold action. Thusly, he planned a campaign to raid Maryland and Pennsylvania and to threaten Washington D.C. itself. Once again Lee confidently divided his army to both move north and neutralize the large Union garrison at Harper’s Ferry.

However, the Union Army under Gen. George B. McClellan was quick to recover from the Bull Run defeat and was already in pursuit of Lee. The gods of war smiled on the Union troops as a copy of Lee’s orders fell into Union hands. An attack through the lightly held gaps at South Mountain would cut Lee’s army in two and perhaps end the war. At 6:00 am the Union Army moved.

The Great Battles of the American Civil War Series:
This series is one of the hobby’s longest lived design concepts, springing from the legendary regimental level Gettysburg game -Terrible Swift Sword (SPI)- designed by Richard Berg in 1976. Under GMT, the rules system has remained stable but has shown remarkable flexibility to allow each game to smoothly incorporate additional rules to reflect the historical battles. The series relies on interactive chit-pull mechanics to simulate the oftentimes chaotic nature of the 19th Century battlefield at the regimental level.

The Game:
Twin Peaks contains two battle games each with its own full size map on one double-sided mapsheet. Experienced players will be able to play either in one sitting. Both battles highlight the effects of fatigue from the late summer heat and the difficult terrain. The optional fatigue rules are mandatory in both battles. The Cedar Mountain battle also includes optional units which could have joined the battle.