Battle Report - Lee vs. Grant

Working on 1864

I have been working on 1864 and am slowly putting the thing together.  This one will feature not only generals from the last major year of the war, but also campaigns.  There will be special rules for generals moving around the board on a campaign, how to link them with battles, and will include the campaigns for the Atlanta and the Overland campaigns.

I also finished the cover when I built it for the talk at Celesticon.  Here it is:

Command Combat: Civil War - 1863 released

The second expansion for Command Combat: Civil War is now available on the website, and at this location:

https://www.createspace.com/4354880

As with the 1862 expansion, 1863 focuses on the elements of the Civil War that were most prevalent in 1863.  This time, that means larger armies.

Just as 1862 saw a large use of siege equipment, forts, and the navy, 1863 focuses on the larger bodies of men that came together.  For the first two years of the war, individual corps fought often fought one another away from the main armies.  As 1863 came around, major generals allowed less and less of this individualized movement, forming stronger armies and larger bodies of men at arms.  This expansion provides rules for army generals who give each corps specialized objectives, such as capturing a road, breaking through enemy lines, and capturing or killing enemy generals.

Also, as with 1862, there are new generals with specialized rules, and some return generals with new rules associated with them.  The game also provides specialized regiments, which can be placed into brigades, that give them extra benefits.

The book also includes the battles of Gettysburg, Champion Hill, and Chickamauga.

1863 and Gettysburg to Premier at Historicon

Next week we will be premiering the 1863 expansion at Historicon, and playing the Battle of Gettysburg.  This event will show off some of the new rules in the expansion, as well as the elements of the recently released Gettysburg battlepack.

This will be my first trip to Historicon, so it should be very exciting.  The convention is held in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is the sight of two major battles of the Civil War.  I will try to take a tour of the battlefield at some point, but may be gaming too much to have a chance.

If you will be at Historicon, please come visit and join us for our game.

http://www.historicon.org/

Battle of Gettysburg Battlepack Released

The long-awaited Battle of Gettysburg Battlepack has just been released.  In this battlepack, players choose one of the three days of the battle, and duke it out using the generals and units of those times.  The player can then put the maps from all three days together to play the entire battle using special army rules and stats for Lee and Meade.

The Battle of Gettysburg Battlepack is available on Wargame Vault:

http://sww.wargamevault.com/product/115932/Command-Combat-Civil-War---The-Battle-of-Gettysburg

On paperback on Amazon, or at:

https://www.createspace.com/4326048

And, as always, you can find it at the website:

www.commandcombat.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!

Command Combat to be at Orccon

I will be at Orccon putting on the Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas.  This con takes place in Los Angeles near LAX on Presidents Day Weekend.  Here is the website for the convention:

http://www.strategicon.net/

It's one of the Strategicon events, and one of the best, I think.  Come join us!  We will be there at these times:

Friday: 3:00 -9:00
Saturday: Noon - 6:00

We'll probably be doing the second day on Friday and the third day on Saturday.

The Second Battle of Bull Run - Miniatures reenactment

This is a miniatures reenactment of the Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas, the second day.

Command Comabt at SoCal Smackdown this weekend

We will be at SoCal Smackdown this Saturday and Sunday.  We will have a booth where we will be selling all sorts of goodies for Command Combat: Civil War, and we will also have a game of the Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas starting at noon.  Everyone who participates gets a copy of the battle pack for Second Bull Run/Manassas.

http://www.socalsmackdown.com/

Come enjoy the games!

Battle of Antietam - Game play (Battle Cry)

This is a battle report of a game using the Antietam scenario in the board game Battle Cry.

The Battle of Antietam - Game reenactment

This reenactment uses the game Battle Cry to reenact the Battle of Antietam.