Scourge of War Boards

<t>Okay I give up on this one. I have made several attempts to make this work for the Union commander and cannot get out of the minus point scoring. I have played it set to custom with couriers at Bde level and above. The trouble begins almost immediately getting Birney's division formed up to take ...

<t>Yeah this is a tough one. I have played it about six times and just this last time achieved a victory, but a costly one as I lost over half of McLaws' division in casualties and three Brigade commanders. As Longstreet said regarding the Chancellorsville battles the victories are way too costly fo...

<t>Thank you. It is a fantastic game. I cut my ACW teeth on Avalon Hill's Board Game, Gettysburg, and I played Talonsoft's version and some of Sid Meir's Gettysburg (only the demo). I have been away from gaming for awhile but I came across SOW and read some reviews which were all good. I bought Chan...

<t>My first victory in SOW Chancellorsville. I applied the custom option with couriers set to Brigade level and had no problems communicating with subordinates. The lead brigade deployed in movement to contact with skirmishers and encounter the enemy immediately. Brought up my other brigade (only tw...

<t>I have played Scenario #2 three times. The first two were disasters in that I could not withdraw infantry and artillery in an orderly fashion once they became engaged with the enemy ( a no doubt realistic thing but still troubling). So the last time I simply moved Gibbs arty into reserve immediat...