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Folks into historical board wargaming may be interested in this...
Last Full Measure is a hex-and-counter game system of Civil War battles that depicts CW battles at a scale of 250 yards to a hex and 100 men to a strength-point. It functions as a brigade scaled game, but uses regiments to deploy those brigades. It's an "intermediate level" rules-set that anyone familiar with the old Avalon Hills classic will have no trouble picking up. While regiments are used, this isn't a regimental scale game along the lines of GMT's Great Battles series, or The Gamer's Line of Battle series; this is a more zoomed out and simpler system.
The games are "print-and-play" and free-of-charge, just download the files, have them printed, mount, cut, and play. They do require some ability and stamina to produce; Gettysburg has over 1,000 counters, but anyone that can handle a utility knife and a straight edge can handle it; ie; it's no more difficult than making good cartridges.
I produced this system for myself to game the battles that interested me, game companies won't cover; and I'm making it available to anyone that's interested.
At the moment completed battles available are:
Cross Keys & Port Republic
South Mountain
Brandy Station
Second Manassas
Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville (The Ashby's Gap Turnpike)
Hanover (PA)
Gettysburg
In the works and nearly ready are:
First Manassas
1st & 2nd Kernstown
Chickamauga
Bentonville
The rules, charts, tables, maps, and counters, all the files you need are in PDF format, and available at: Uhlan Games.
All the games are also available as ZunTzu files, and I'm trying to learn how to stuff them into Vassal.
opening set-up for Second Manassas (screenshot from ZunTzu)
Last Full Measure is a hex-and-counter game system of Civil War battles that depicts CW battles at a scale of 250 yards to a hex and 100 men to a strength-point. It functions as a brigade scaled game, but uses regiments to deploy those brigades. It's an "intermediate level" rules-set that anyone familiar with the old Avalon Hills classic will have no trouble picking up. While regiments are used, this isn't a regimental scale game along the lines of GMT's Great Battles series, or The Gamer's Line of Battle series; this is a more zoomed out and simpler system.
The games are "print-and-play" and free-of-charge, just download the files, have them printed, mount, cut, and play. They do require some ability and stamina to produce; Gettysburg has over 1,000 counters, but anyone that can handle a utility knife and a straight edge can handle it; ie; it's no more difficult than making good cartridges.
I produced this system for myself to game the battles that interested me, game companies won't cover; and I'm making it available to anyone that's interested.
At the moment completed battles available are:
Cross Keys & Port Republic
South Mountain
Brandy Station
Second Manassas
Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville (The Ashby's Gap Turnpike)
Hanover (PA)
Gettysburg
In the works and nearly ready are:
First Manassas
1st & 2nd Kernstown
Chickamauga
Bentonville
The rules, charts, tables, maps, and counters, all the files you need are in PDF format, and available at: Uhlan Games.
All the games are also available as ZunTzu files, and I'm trying to learn how to stuff them into Vassal.
opening set-up for Second Manassas (screenshot from ZunTzu)
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