Chancellorsville (first edition) (1961)

Chancellorsville was the third "Tournament" wargame from Avalon Hill. It marked the introduction of hex based maps to the hobby (contemporaneously with D-Day and Gettysburg) It also marked an unfortunate experiment in early wargame map graphics -- instead of using illustrations to depict terrain features, the hexes were simply filled with a single color. The result was more mosaic than map.

After a couple of years, Chancellorsville was dropped from the Avalon Hill line. In 1974, Avalon Hill released Randall Reed's revision of the game. However, by the mid 1980's Chancellorsville had vanished from the Avalon Hill catalog.

Re-implemented by:

• Chancellorsville

from The Avalon Hill Company History, 1980

Chancellorsville (1961) Discontinued 1963, Revised 1974
Designed by Charles Roberts
1974 Design by Randall Reed

The Reed revision used a completely different game system although the order of battle remained the same.

Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List:

• The GENERAL Vol.1,No.3
  • The Question Box - D-Day, Chancellorsville, Tactics II, Dispatcher, Stalingrad

• The GENERAL Vol.1,No.5
  • The Question Box - Midway, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Baseball Strategy, Stalingrad, Tactics II