American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Gentlemen:

Some of you have heard of the Tessier style of game. For those of you who have not, you’re about to be given an opportunity that will change the way you look at these games.

Imagine yourself a mid-level commander in a Civil War battle. You receive your orders from higher up and have to interpret them. You send orders to your troops and hope they reach their intended audience - and pray they are carried out as you intended. You may not know for some time if the courier actually made it or not, or if your orders were understood the way you intended them. If things don’t go the way you expect, you may have to go there yourself and give some lower-level officer some ‘gentle guidance’.

In this style of multi-player battle, players do not move individual units. Instead, a Game Master acts as the go-between, receiving and passing along orders and carrying them out (or not, depending!). As a player, you will assume the role and persona of a specific officer on the field. (That is, if you are assigned General Thomas J. Jackson, you will send and sign orders with his name, not your own.) No player will know the real identity of any other (and it would be considered extremely poor sportsmanship to try and find out!).

You will generally have one week to get your orders sent to us, and we will usually play one turn a week, so this is a long-term commitment. But it shouldn’t take much time on your part each week.

For more details, see the web site General Miller has put together: http://btc.thealleghenyblues.com/

General Ken Miller has run two games of this sort in the past, and he has graciously agreed to tutor me in the fine art of Game Mastering. The scenario we came up with has positions for two Union and four Rebel players. If you are interested in one of these positions DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POST! Instead, send an email to General Miller and to me. Our email addresses are listed in the DoR.

Any questions should be sent to General Miller and me, as well. We will answer them and, if we feel the questions are pertinent to others, we may answer them here.

Again, if you are interested in participating, DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POST. Send an email to the two of us:

Dwmallo01 – AT – Yahoo – DOT – com
Kmiller_USA – AT – Yahoo – DOT – com

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General 'Dee Dubya' Mallory
Chief of the Armies, CSA

Gentlemen,

FYI: I neglected to mention that we will be using a modified scenario from the Gettysburg game for this session. In order to watch the replay, all players will need to have the latest version (3.0) of John Tiller's "Campaign: Gettysburg".

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General 'Dee Dubya' Mallory
Chief of the Armies, CSA