Command Combat: Civil War - 1864 Generals Preview 5

Here's the last preview of Command Combat: Civil War - 1864.  It comes out on Sunday on Wargame Vault and Amazon.

Battle Report - Lee vs. Grant

1864 Preview - Barlow

Set-up Miniature Shots

These were some set-ups done for some of the books that were created using terrain by Shawn Hendrix.

Command Combat: Civil War at Fort MacArthur Days

A while back we showed Command Combat: Civil War at Fort MacArthur Days.  It's an impressive event where reenactors from every era gather to show what they can do.  Their World War II event even had fighter planes flying overhead!  HMGS Pacific Southwest were showing several of their games at the event, and we were lucky enough to be one of them.  These are pictures of our game, the HMGS booth, and the event.

Wilson's Creek at Kubla Con

Craig Robertson will be putting on Wilson's Creek using the Command Combat: Civil War rules at Kubla Con in San Francisco this weekend.  Check it out at:

http://www.kublacon.com/

Sneak Peak at Command Combat: Civil War - 1863

I am hard at work on the expansions for Command Combat: Civil War.  The remaining three year expansions, which include 1863, 1864, and 1865, and the Gettysburg battlepack will all be released during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and will be premiered at Historicon in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1863 is, of course, the first one I'm working on.  It focuses on larger scale armies and army commanders, since that was the year when battles grew into the mammoth conflicts that are so famous.

The scenarios will primarily be the larger ones, such as Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, etc.

I chose Jackson and Sherman for the cover for their own reasons.  It is, of course, Jackson's last opportunity to appear on a cover, and 1863 was the year of his most astonishing victory at Chancellorsville.  Sherman is on it because this is the year when he rose up to prominence.  Of course, it's also the year Grant made the same rise to power, but he'll be on the 1864 cover, so Sherman gets this one.

As mentioned earlier, the main rule additions will center around holding larger battles, so they will introduce the army general into the game and provide him with orders that he sends to corps generals.  These orders will be in the form of objectives.  So instead of beginning the battle with set objectives, they will be given out, or possibly changed, by the army generals.  Turns will take place primarily by corps as well, so that the game doesn't get bogged down with moving every single division by their own turns.

In addition to going large, the game will also go small.  Certain special regiments will be added, such as 54th Massachusetts, which was the first black regiment to see active duty.

The generals, too, will change.  One example is Lee, whose special ability will be "Know the enemy" which allows him to utilize his opponent general's special ability once per game.  He will also have other abilities, but that's the surprise!