War Between The States Spi Board Game

War Between The States SPI Board Game Double Plastic Flat Tray Pack Game Excellent Condition counters clipped Box Excellent Condition A Great Highly Rated Game From the Estate of an Avid Collector War Between the States , 1861-1865, simulates the American Civil War from the opening shots at Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. War Between the States uses three maps to cover the major theaters of operation from Galveston, Texas, to St. Joseph, Missouri, and from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jacksonville, Florida. A total of 1200 counters represent various units and game effects. Game turns represent the passage of a week of real-world time, with "cycles" intervening during which players carry out such routines as production, blockade, construction, politics, etc. Each game turn is divided into two player turns, during which one player or the other may move his ground and naval combat units on the map and attack his opponent. The game can be played as a huge campaign using all three maps and simulating the entire war from beginning to end. That requires hundreds of man-hours. Operational level simulation of the American Civil War 1861-1865. Players encompass elements of both grand strategy and tactics. Units cover land, rail and naval. 1,200 die-cut counters, 3 map sections, many charts including Confederate and Union production spirals. This is one of SPI's monster games! The interesting aspect of this simulation is players can ( and perhaps should) follow the same grand strategies of the actual war. The Union needs to build and consolidate, then as the Confederates cannot protect everything, slice off the areas they can't hold. Finally, as the gulf in resources widens, the Union can press and press hard. Built with historical inputs that yield realistic results, War Between the States provides a simulation level that feels 'right.'  That is pretty high praise!