Description
Command the armies of the Union or Confederacy in a sweeping Civil War simulation that blends grand strategy, operational maneuver, and battlefield tactics. Build armies, manage production, and pursue your own path to victory as history unfolds across an open-ended sandbox campaign. Uncertainty reigns supreme. Fog of War conceals enemy intentions, Activation Chits create the friction and delays of command, and distant armies may “March to the Sound of the Guns” to reinforce a desperate battle underway.
When armies collide, the action shifts to an immersive Battle Board where leadership, terrain, reserves, and timing determine victory or defeat. Every battle becomes a dramatic test of skill, nerve, and command. The result is a richly historical Civil War experience where no two campaigns unfold the same way.
The Struggle for Union provides players with more of a sandbox approach to a Civil War simulation. To that end, Basic Resource Points (or Production Points) allow players to build their forces as they see fit and craft their own approaches to winning the game and have fun going down different force pool paths. Another fundamental decision was to enable players to accomplish the historical progress of the war with the least amount of rule exceptions. It was an important aspect of the design to have common rules and tables that governed most game elements, so once players learn them, they can be applied to most game situations.
Best played by 2–4 players, each playing a combination of Union and Confederate Eastern and Western Theaters.
Product Information:
- Complexity: Medium/High (8/10)
- Playing Time: 1-6 hours for a scenario, 20-30 hours for the full campaign
- Solitaire Suitability: Medium (Chit-pull activation)
- Players: 2-4
- Map Scale: Varies depending on terrain and theater
- Time Scale: Seasonal, 5 turns per year
- Unit Scale: Brigades, Divisions, Corps, and groups of irregulars
- Game Design: Mark Melenovsky
- Game Developer: John DiCicco
- Game Artist: Ilya Kudriashov
Game Components:
- 2 MOUNTED Mapboards – 22×34″
- 6 Countersheets
- 66 Cards
- 8 Dice (4 grey, 4 blue)
- 4 Player Theater Cards
- 2 Army Cards
- 2 Battleboards
- 4 Reference Cards
- 1 VP Chart
- 1 Rulebook
- 1 Example of Play & Scenario Book
