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Gettysburg is a board wargame produced by Avalon Hill in 1958 that re-enacts the American Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The game rules were groundbreaking in several respects, and the game, revised several times, was a bestseller for Avalon Hill for several decades.
Gettysburg: 1958, [3] 1961, 1964, 1977, 1988, 1989 The 1958 Gettysburg was Avalon Hill's first game to market (not Tactics or Tactics II). [8] Gladiator: 1981 Gold! 1981 Greed: 1986 Guadalcanal: 1966 Land Combat Guadalcanal: 1992 Naval Combat Guns of August: 1981 Gunslinger: 1983 Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage: 1996 Hexagony: 1980 History of the ...
The first game published by the company under the name of "Avalon Hill" was Gettysburg, published in 1958, it was also the first board wargame to simulate a historical battle. AH published two other games that year, the second edition of Tactics , titled Tactics II , and the railroad game Dispatcher .
The game was republished by Avalon Hill in 1982 and titled Little Round Top. Background [ edit ] On July 2, 1863, the second day of the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, the Union army was arrayed along a ridge called Cemetery Hill.
Chancellorsville and its sister game Gettysburg were designed by Charles S. Roberts, and were published by Avalon Hill in 1961 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. They were the first wargames to use a hex grid.
Charles Swann Roberts (February 3, 1930 – August 20, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland) was a wargame designer, railroad historian, and businessman.He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first commercially successful modern wargame in 1952 (), the first wargaming company in 1954 (Avalon Hill), and designed the first board wargame based upon an actual historical battle ().
Terrible Swift Sword: Battle of Gettysburg Game (often abbreviated TSS) is a grand tactical regimental level board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. A second edition was published by TSR in 1986.
Civil War is an early strategic board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1961 that simulates the American Civil War.Unlike other games produced by Avalon Hill during this period such as Gettysburg, Civil War did not sell well and was dropped from production two years later.