Play the Campaign!

4/6/2016

The wait has been long, it is true. But after more than a year of development and play-testing, our first campaign supplement is finally available for download!

As you may have heard for the last few months, Gibraltar of the West and all necessary game components are 100% free. The campaign system is fast, fun, and includes some innovative concepts that will allow players to link multiple Altar of Freedom battles through free-ranging map movement. If you'd like a quick introduction to some of the mechanics in this campaign, refer to our January preview.

For a photo-filled AAR of the campaign in action, you can now see how one of our Vicksburg operations resolved in the club. And finally, if you simply can't wait to get started on your own campaign, download everything you need now.

12 Comments

Mitch

4/6/2016 04:04:37 pm

OK...this is really cool and well worth the wait. Thanks for the work. Looking forward to others....huzzah!

Andy Terry

4/9/2016 07:18:25 am

Thanks for this. It is really professional and looks great. Now to getting the troops ready.

Skipper

5/3/2016 12:20:05 pm

I was looking for a good scenario to introduce this game and while double blind is my preferred method, this might be perfect for a good introductory day.

Fortunately, I just placed an order from Baccus which should give me the necessary troops to run this campaign. So with a little luck, I'll have it ready to run early next month.

Really looking forward to seeing more of this.

Will Corlett

4/10/2016 06:04:01 am

Thank you , this is really well done - can I ask what software was used to map this , I have used hexographer in the past?

So stoked, we had to get everything set up and played through the campaign this Friday/Saturday, it was a blast. - I acted as umpire this time around

McClernand;'s card came early and Grant struggled to get anything moving, allowing Pemberton to dictate the pace.

It ended afrer three campaign days, with a massive pitched battle , to the South West of Edwards Station. To be fair I misread the end of battle rules and so after the first day neither side had broke, so we rolled off as per the minor skirmish table and the scores were tied. I house ruled that the armies had the option to stay in place rather than retreat and the any units not yet moved on the map could do so (no staff rolls).and be eligible to roll as reinforcement day 2 of the battle

This led to a further concentration of forces throughout day 2, with Pemberton just having enough to launch the decisive assualt against Sherman's Corps. The Union forces were forced to retreat and forfeited - they could make no progress against Vicksburg or Jackson.

Very easy to set up and use and look forward to more in the future. It does seem easy to scale up and so the grand strategic sweep of the the East is a real option - Peninsula anyone?

GRW

4/10/2016 04:25:35 pm

Will--prepare for your mind to be blown...I made the map in Microsoft Paint. Old school Paint.

Glad you guys had a good first go at the campaign. One of the reasons such a simple campaign system took so long to design is scalability. It needed to work for small campaigns like this, as well as some of the really big campaigns with armies three or four times the size. A much larger eastern theater campaign is currently in the pipeline.

will

4/11/2016 12:23:00 pm

Thanks for the reply GRW,

There was me thinking you had a fancy map editor and it was good old paint, there on every PC but so often forgotten.

Matt Breeze

4/10/2016 08:53:12 pm

This mini-campaign is lovely and a true joy to play! Thank you for all the time and work you put into it. I have one question though. What happens if one of your generals is killed in a battle? Is he gone for the rest of the campaign?

GRW

4/11/2016 06:36:24 am

Great question, Matt. The rules for replacing a general are the same as in the core rules--a new general is automatically created with half the PP and no traits. If you need to know the name of this officer, it would typically be the senior division commander from that corps.

Andy Lamkowski

5/19/2016 09:33:36 am

Great rules, scenario books, top class website and now a free campaign. Perfect" I'm having fun running Vicksburg via email for my brother and a chum. One query that has popped up is does a division lose any remaining movement when it contacts and brushes aside an opposing picket unit. Similarly what happens to the winner of a minor skirmish is any remaining movement lost?

GRW

5/25/2016 01:15:09 pm

Andy--minor skirmishes end an attacker's movement. The division occupies the space and that's it. Pickets should be brushed aside and do not stop movement (they have no combat value and can't actually fight in the game).

11/18/2016 01:34:36 am

Loved the game and artwork.
Played it 3 times - always a CSA victory so I think the victory conditions are pretty tough on the USA - especially for a campaign they actually won.! Also during play I found that units moved very opportunistically to bypass enemy units - so seemed more like panzers interpentrating infantry lines rather than foot slogging columns. Anyway just my impression. Still a very good game and definately lots of options and variants.

Also can anyone clarify a couple of questions?
What happens when a units retreat is "blocked" by a friendly unit - seems very harsh it must be destroyed.
I am assuming troops cant attack over destroyed bridges but can they repair them if the opposite bank is occupied by the enemy?

JPJ

11/8/2020 06:03:02 am

Dear developer, I loved your initiative, my cousin and I are starting in wargaming, we always play other games like totalwar, but this was the first board game, I as a union had 1 victory and 2 victories as CSA we already played the gettysburg campaign, I hope that we can play more of your campaigns, thanks;)

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