Blue & Gray (1975)

Blue & Gray – 4 civil war battles where players maneuver colorful card board counters on three color maps of the actual battle sites. A hexagonal grid superimposed upon each map regulates the deployment, movement, and battle engagement of each unit. The colorful counters represent the infantry, cavalry, and artillery units that actually fought at each battle. A roll of the dies on simple probability charts determines each combat’s outcome.
The updated and revised rules booklet clearly and concisely presents the player with playing rules, a short history of each battle, and other information needed to recreate America’s epic struggle of brother against brother.

Includes scenarios for:
• Shiloh – The forerunner of costly Civil War tactics
• Antietam – a setback for Lee after a string of Victories
• Chickamauga – the Confederates seek to avenge the Union’s capture of
Chattanooga
• Cemetery Hill – overlooking Gettysburg, determined Confederates couldn’t
capture it in three days

Components:
Rulebooks: Rules of Play - 16 pages
Player Reference - 20 pages
Map: 1 – 2 sided Map sheet
Counters: 400 counters

Extras: 1 Errata sheet in the form of a printed out E-mail
1 storage box
Simple, hex-and-counter, introductory wargame. Some of the scenarios do a good job of representing civil war tactics.
Includes scenarios for:

• Shiloh
• Antietam (or both Bull Runs in the DG edition)
• Chickamauga
• Cemetery Hill (Gettysburg)

Belonging to same rule system than Blue & Gray II and S&T games Road to Richmond, The Road To Vicksburg: The Battle of Champion Hill.
The initial series was then later updated with Savage Station / Olustee, The Atlanta Campaign and Seven Days Battles.

Also published in Command Magazine Japan #83 on 20 Oct 2008.

Magazine References:

Moves Article Index:

• Number 25, February/March 1976
  • Blue & Gray "Scenarios and Variants: Complicating Blue & Gray" (Variant), Mahroni Young
• Number 27, June/July 1976
  • Blue & Gray - "Conservative Tactics" (Strategy), Joe Angiolillo
• Number 85, Jan/Feb 1996
  • Blue & Gray - "Cemetary Hill: Corrections, Analysis and Historicity" (Strategy, Errata), Doug Burmeister

Strategy & Tactics Article Index

• Number 98, November/december 1984
  • "New Blue & Gray Game Variants: Expanded Rules for the Blue & Gray Game" (Variants), Steve Winter

Online Play

• Hexwar: http://www.hexwar.com (Turn based - subscription required)