American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

News from the good folks at JTS about a July sale, upcoming updates & free demos, and your final chance to migrate older HPS games over to the JTS version:

John Tiller Software would like to announce our upcoming sale. From July 1st - July 19th every title that has been out longer than 12 months will be on sale in our store for $29.95. No order minimums to receive the discount pricing. The only games not included in this are:
Japan '46
Campaign Shenandoah
Wolfpack
Wellington's Peninsular War
Serbia '14

More Updates coming: Prior to the sale kicking off we plan on releasing updates for all three games in the First World War Campaigns series as well as Campaign Waterloo. So keep an eye on our site for those announcements. We also have a couple of new, free, demos for other series nearing the completion mark.

Closing remarks: And finally, we want to address the migration process for old HPS customers. We are closing the window on this offer, with June 30th being the last day to take advantage of it - so if you still have games to migrate to the JTS version contact Support@johntillersoftware.com soon. You can simply send a picture of your games, or I can find you in the HPS database if you bought directly from them.

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Gen. Scott Eichelberger, ACWGC
Commander, 3rd Division (“PA Reserves”)
V Corps, AotP
UMA Superintendent 2020-2021
Union Cabinet Secretary 2020-2022

Glad I waited.

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I remain,

Davis, R., Lt Gen.
VMI Class of 2011
3d Cavalry Brigade, 3d Division, III Corps
'Partisan Rangers'
Army Of Alabama
CSA

So which one of the latest releases would be recommended.....Campaign Shenandoah or Campaign Petersburg?

Petersburgs seems like a larger version of Overland and Shenandoah looks like a large cavalry engagement (w Stonewall troops to support).

Would be curious to hear some comparisons of the two and recommendations.

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Union War Dog!
MG. Derek Hampel
Cmdr. Second Div., XV Corps
Army of the Tennessee

Hi,

Both have some good scenarios. The Petersburg game has fewer battles and more variants on battles. Shenandoah has more different battles but more seem to be one-sided. Of the two I like Shenandoah a bit better but you will get value from both.

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MG Mike Mihalik
Forrest's Cavalry Corps
AoWest/CSA

I did play test work on Overland and also did some work on Petersburg in the early stages, dropped out due to real life issues.
Worked on the last stages of testing for Shenandoah which introduced the new variable Objective VP's which made it interesting.
There are some scenarios where you have to get the objectives early to win or hold them as the VP's can accumulate per turn sometimes to one side, sometimes to both.

Petersburg is the continuation of Overland and has similar situations, if you have and like Overland it would be a good choice.
I don't currently own it as I didn't feel my limited work on it justified a free copy and I was retired from the club when it came out and taking a break from the ACW games.
Trying to decide whether I should pick it up during the sale to complete my ACW collection as I already picked up a couple games from the other series.

Shenandoah has a lot of smaller, shorter battles, the majority of the scenarios are one day affairs of 40 or less turns.
Covering both the 1862 battles as well as the 1864 campaigns of both sides it has more fluid battles and several short campaigns.
The 1864 campaign gives the Union player a chance to play with a large effective cavalry force, something few of the games allow.
Did a lot of play test work on this one both solitaire, against the AI and some pbem games.
This one got me back into the ACW games and prompted my return to the ACWGC although I haven't played it a lot since playtesting it.
Since my return to the club have limited myself to 1-2 games as I continue to play some of the other Tiller series.

For what it's worth that's my take on them, as usual the best advice is pick the one that interests you the most.
If you have all the other games you might want to pick up both to complete your collection.

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Gen. Ken Miller



The McKeesport Union Guard

3/1/II
AotP

Derek <salute>

The short answer is: Buy them all Each and every one. Do not delay.

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Walter A. Dortch
Commanding -/4/V AotP
UA Cabinet Secretary
UA Operations Officer
UA Wolverine Team Leader

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General Ernie Sands
President ACWGC -Sept 2015- Dec 2020
7th Brigade, 1st Division, XVI Corps, AoT
ACWGC Records Site Admin

"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."

I didn't buy them all, but I got enough to qualify for the bulk discount... 7 games for under $25 a pop.

Now I can get my tail kicked from Keystone to Show Me

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Lt. Colonel Mike Terhune
New River Greys - 24th Virginia Infantry
Army of Northern Virginia
I/4/4

"Up, men, to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia
MG George E. Pickett, July 3, 1863

Fld. Lt. Terhune...my exact sentiments. LOL My moniker "Cannon Fodder" is well earned. LOL

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Colonel Jason "Skeedaddle" Campbell
The Mahoning 4th Brigade
3rd Division
2nd Corp
AoT
"Let's fill up our canteens, boys. Some of us will be in hell before nightfall and we'll need the water"