Hold the high ground, use the woods, turn a flank. Fight Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Grant's long road to Appomattox on the period surveys, and learn how the war was really fought.
Free on iPhone and iPad, with twelve battles included. Coming soon to the Mac.
Never played a wargame? Start on the Drill Field. Seven guided lessons take you from your first order to taking an enemy flag, and each one waits until you have actually done it.
Then keep the Field Manual open beside you: ten short chapters on how the game works and how the war was fought, from Hardee's drill to Little Round Top.
Every battle is short: five minutes to break the line or hold it. Play either side, at three levels of difficulty.
Gettysburg day by day, Antietam hour by hour from the Cornfield to Burnside's Bridge, and both days at Shiloh. Eight scenarios on the period surveys, with more than two hundred named commands placed where the surveys put them.
Follow Ulysses S. Grant from Fort Donelson to Appomattox: Champion Hill, the assault on Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, the Wilderness, the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania, and the last attack of Lee's army.
Each campaign is a one-time purchase, or buy both together for less. Purchases restore on all your devices.
Every battle sits where it was fought on Colton's 1862 map. March a campaign in order and the army you finish one battle with is the army you start the next.
Nothing here is decoration. These are the rules the battles run on.
A line fights to its front. Fire into a flank does half again as much harm; into the rear, two and a half times. Pin them from the front, then go around.
Troops on the move manage scattered shots at a third of their strength. A halted line delivers full volleys.
Woods, stone walls, sunken roads and earthworks double a unit's protection or more. High ground adds reach. Men who hold still dig in.
Guns unlimber before they fire, double their bite with canister at close range, and cannot see into woods. Infantry that reach a battery overrun it.
Column marches 40% faster but bleeds under fire. Skirmish order halves both losses and firepower. Line fights hardest.
Units break when morale goes, and rally near flags, generals and friends. About three and a half minutes of steady fire empties a cartridge box.
Play on the surveys the armies and historians drew, from Bachelder's Gettysburg to Michler's survey of the Wilderness, or switch to a quiet documentary-style map drawn from the same ground.
Every campaign battle ends with the history: what happened, why it mattered, and the words of the people who were there.
The after-action report counts your losses in men, scaled to the armies that really fought, and sets them beside the real casualty figures. Win the day, or change history.
Made for history readers, students and teachers as much as for wargamers.
The Mac version is a full desktop game, not a phone app in a window. Click to select, drag or right-click to order, scroll to zoom, shift-click to build a brigade, and a key for every command. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Yes. Twelve battles, the Drill Field and the Field Manual are free, with no time limits or energy meters. The Historical Campaigns and Grant's Campaigns are optional one-time purchases.
Five minutes on the clock. The attacker has to break the line before nightfall; the defender has to hold at least one flag with a quarter of the army left.
Yes. Every battle can be fought from either side, against a Green, Regular or Veteran enemy.
Yes. Purchases are tied to your Apple ID and restore on every iPhone, iPad and Mac you sign in to.
No. There are no accounts and no analytics in the app. See the privacy policy.
The maps, the commands and their positions come from the period surveys and official records. Strengths are the game's own counters, scaled back to real numbers in the after-action report.
Free on iPhone and iPad. Coming soon to the Mac.