Vedette · The American Civil War · 1861–1865 · In preparation

Signal Officer

signal officer, n. — the officer who watched the field from a signal station and sent what he saw by flag, and by torch after dark.

The American Civil War, at the size of your table.

Seventeen battles from the sources, from First Bull Run (First Manassas) to Franklin, cut into sixty-five engagements, each with its ground, both orders of battle, the men in command and the objectives on one sheet. And a theatre — Maryland, July 1863 — that builds a new action every time you ask. Any table, any rules.

Signal Officer · coming soonNot yet on sale, and no date is promised.
Confederate regiments with their colours crowding up to a stone wall, Union troops close beyond — figures on Andy’s table
Confederate gun crews at their pieces on the grass, a Union battery and colour beyond — figures on Andy’s table
Zouaves in red and Confederates in grey around a stone bridge over a stream — figures on Andy’s table

What is in it

Seventeen battles, sixty-five engagements

The great battles are too big for any table, so each is cut into the engagements a table can hold, in the order they were fought. Each is a game on its own; the result of one says what comes next.

BattleFoughtEng.The engagements
First Bull Run (First Manassas)21 July 18613
three engagementsMatthews Hill · Henry House Hill · Chinn Ridge
Shiloh6 April 18624
four engagementsPrentiss's camps · The Hornets' Nest · The Peach Orchard · Grant's last line
Gaines' Mill27 June 18623
three engagementsBoatswain's Swamp · The Watt house · McGehee's hill
Second Bull Run (Second Manassas)28 to 30 August 18624
four engagementsBrawner's Farm · The Deep Cut · Chinn Ridge · Henry House Hill
Antietam17 September 18624
four engagementsThe Cornfield · The West Woods · The Sunken Road · The Lower Bridge
Perryville8 October 18624
four engagementsPeters Hill · The Open Knob · The Bottom house · The Dixville crossroads
Fredericksburg13 December 18624
four engagementsThe boggy wood · The Slaughter Pen · The stone wall · Hazel Run and the last light
Stones River (Murfreesboro)31 December 1862 to 2 January 18634
four engagementsThe Franklin road · The Slaughter Pen · The Round Forest · McFadden's Ford
Chancellorsville1 to 3 May 18634
four engagementsThe Turnpike ridge · Talley's farm · Dowdall's Tavern · Hazel Grove
Champion Hill16 May 18634
four engagementsThe crest and the Crossroads · The ravines and the Jackson road · The hill of death · The Raymond road
Gettysburg1 July 18633
three engagementsWilloughby Run and the Railroad Cut · McPherson's Ridge in the afternoon · The Seminary
Chickamauga18 September 18634
four engagementsAlexander's Bridge · Viniard Field and Wilder's ditch · Dyer Field · Horseshoe Ridge
The Wilderness5 and 6 May 18644
four engagementsSaunders Field · The swell · The Widow Tapp field · The unfinished railroad
Spotsylvania Court House8 to 12 May 18644
four engagementsLaurel Hill · The Doles salient · The East Angle · The Bloody Angle
Atlanta22 July 18644
four engagementsSweeny's Field · The Flat Shoals Road · The Railroad Cut · Bald Hill at Dusk
Cedar Creek19 October 18644
four engagementsThoburn's Works · The Pike at the Cooley Lane · Cemetery Hill · Middle Marsh Brook
Franklin30 November 18644
four engagementsWagner's Line · The Carter House · The Cotton Gin · Johnson's Night Attack
Seventeen battles65Each engagement is cut to the table: 12 ft, with 8 and 10 ft cuts.
Union infantry under the Stars and Stripes at a stone wall, Confederates and Zouaves pressing in on them — figures on Andy’s table
Union colours at the wall: figures on Andy’s table.

Signal Officer is in preparation. Not yet on sale, and no date is promised. The app is built and its seventeen battles are in it. More generated theatres are being built.

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