Description
- Flanks of Gettysburg is a two-player game simulating the two brigade sized flank attacks on Little Round Top and Culps Hill on July 2, 1863.
- Each assault is a separate game based on a chit-pull system that can be completed in several hours.
- Historically the Union bested rebel forces on both flanks because it fed enough reinforcements in to stem the gray tide but that is not to say that the rebels dont stand a chance.
- As an evolution of designer John Poniske's Ball's Bluff game, Flanks of Gettysburg includes sharp-shooters, more detailed small armos range, slope effects, expanded rally and melee rules, officer casualty variations, and demoralization.
- 1-2 Players | Ages 14+ | 2-3 Hours Playing Time
In the Summer of 1863 General Robert E. Lee led the spirited Army of Northern Virginia, flush with success from the previous year, north into Pennsylvania. There, on July 1st, the vanguard of his 71,000 men met and defeated a smaller Union holding force outside of the small crossroads town of Gettysburg. As night fell, both sides were reinforced and Lee made plans to attack a variety of points all along the Union fishhook defensive positions. The two assaults that held the most promise concerned the high ground on either side of the Federal Line.