Just followed you back, sorry for not having noticed it before (right now I am still on both socials)
Tim Parks is now noted!

Ha! Funny you mention this! A friend of mine has something in the works (more a battle than the whole thing).
As for me, I need to study more of Risorgimento. And the book goes on the list. Thanks!

And all of the above seems very very well documented, with copious sources and studies, which games on the subject can expand and complement or even choose to contradict as a thesis.
I think the abundance of “models” (games) is also worth exploring for what each has to say.

I think it is also an interesting study in how the armies involved “came of age” during the conflict itself.
Finally, the actual territory it was fought in seems to have given more than a chance to see surprise moves being attempted and counter-moves being devised, hence why I like operational games

2) by many accounts, the ACW represents the first war in which the first Industrial Revolution played a key role. Many technological changes took place while the war was on and you can see them being more and more incorporated in how the North fought (and the South tried to adapt)

In the western theater, the distances represent a first in what would become a new way to wage war, especially the sheer scale of the logistics involved for the North, coupled with the role of the Mississippi River: a barrier but also an avenue.

1) the dramatic change in scale between the eastern and western theater. In the former, the two state capitals lie almost at a slingshot from one another, yet neither was seriously threatened before the end (maybe Washington in 1862).

For a start, it is a conflict I had always been ignorant about (even if I did my high school senior year in the USA). When I started studying about it, I discovered two things that I think I can now say have fascinated me.

With the one on the left, my ACW collection has almost reached the (current) end.
I blame @fredserval.bsky.social Homo Ludens « We Intend to Move on Your Works » podcast by @drcrossbows.bsky.social & @pierrevj.bsky.social
The one on the right is because I am a completist and just love GCACW!

This one.
Although the game system is not borrowing all that is presented in the book (the challenge of formations maneuver above all).

I bought a few other “tactical” systems to try out (I tend to prefer operational for ACW), but this is the one that holds the most promise…and the only one that has in its bibliography one of the tactical ACW books I have appreciated the most.

Punched and sorted in @cube4me.bsky.social trays.
Playing it will be a whole different matter 😢
I will maybe solo it just to get the rules down well…

Thanks for the heads-up!
Look Away promises to be the most up to date of the series, hence the interest, but I am afraid it is a bit too much for my current gaming bandwidth.
But I did get Columbia’s Shiloh in the end (I have yet to post pictures though).

Congratulations Liz!!

Sometimes I buy an artifact after I designed a game.

Other times I buy an artifact in order to design the game 👇🏻

It truly is!
And we know who to thank!

I am just a bit perplexed by the Notoriety table since it seems it awards more points when defeating Union forces rather than destroying infrastructure and hitting non-combat units.
Nevertheless I am also getting a free geography lesson, which is just great! 😊

I got Ambush years ago when I was trying to acquire all the solitaire games published in the 90s, but while I recognize the huge effort with the paragraphs and sleeves etc, the game play fell a bit flat for me (especially the convoluted mechanics for initiative).
Mosby so far is enjoyable.

Victory Games’ Mosby’s Raiders finally makes it on the table!
This is the end of Turn 2 (Turn 1 went by with 0 recruits for Mosby).
A couple of close calls with strong Federal patrols, but in the end I managed almost a 3 notoriety.

A great game for sure!!!

a silver car with the word allen on the back is driving down a street ALT: a silver car with the word allen on the back is driving down a street

Ouch!!
Whenever you get there, say hi to all those I know but that don’t know me 😄

a man in a suit has his hand on his head ALT: a man in a suit has his hand on his head

Watching the posts from #CircleDC and getting depressed 😔
My gaming time has shrunk so much it feels like I am not practicing it anymore…I still buy games and read the rules, but playing feels distant.

Border Wars?

nothing, just a hand-drawn Monopoly board from East Germany, where it was illegal

It’s an impressive package all around: the game, the articles, etc.

Anybody know any historical gaming groups in New Orleans?

In da house!!!

BTW: it’s Gela like Gelato (I hear a lot of “hard” G’s like in Geek…and it makes the place unrecognizable to an Italian! 🤗)

They should ban those posts from social media…

To punch or not to punch?
That is the question…
Whether ‘tis nobler in mind to suffer the eardogs and misregistering of old counters, or to contemplate the box on the shelf of shame and thus not playing them.

To wait, to contemplate - no more, for it is ACW and solitaire.