loadingnano.blogg.se - february 2023

This game and its predecessors from MadMinute Games are the best tactical level Civil War games on the market today.

Six single player scenarios covering the battle.

Three five mile maps covering The Pipe Creek Line in Carroll County, MD.

This package depicts the fictional Battle of Pipe Creek had the Union army retreated to the Pipe Creek Line after the fighting on July 1st. Buford had been cautioned not to bring on, was already under way in the town of Gettysburg. The line of course had to be abandoned as the general engagement which both Gen. Gen George Gordon Meade when he assumed command of The Army of The Potomac on June 28th, 1863.īy July 1st, Meade’s Pipe Creek Line was nearly complete with five of the seven corps in position.

The Pipe Creek line was the proposed defensive position chosen by Maj. The Union army needed a strong defensive position to meet the threat and to defend Baltimore and Washingon. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was on the move to invade the north. Here are some details of that smaller add-on:ĭuring the month of June 1863, Gen. I completely missed this, but last summer NorbSoftDev released Scourge of War: Pipe Creek, a $10 map pack for SoW: Gettysburg. The South Mountain battlefield is particularly scenic, as I’m sure you can imagine! Second, let’s look at a few screenshots of various areas in Scourge of War: Antietam. I want to start you off with a really cool video comparing real images taken just after the battle with the game’s depiction of those areas. Note that you MUST own the original Scourge of War: Gettysburg to be able to play the map pack. In late December 2o11, they launched Scourge of War: Antietam, a massive $20 map/scenario pack add-on for Scourge of War: Gettysburg.

For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it is a tactical level real-time game where you command anything from a brigade to an army.

With that said, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the makers of Scourge of War: Gettysburg have been busy in my absence with the release of two new map packs for the game. I did not work on Antietam or Pipe Creek, and paid the full amount for both add-on map/scenario packs.Ī growing young family makes it difficult if not impossible to find time to play wargames, and I found this to be very true over the past few years. Full Disclosure: I worked on the Scourge of War: Gettysburg game for a period of time, completing OOBs for the first two days before leaving due to the birth of my son Brock in late 2008.