The Road to Atlanta: Regimental Wargame Scenarios for the Atlanta Campaign May-June 1864

The Road to Atlanta:
Regimental Wargame Scenarios
for the Atlanta Campaign May-June 1864

The Atlanta Campaign was a decisive moment in the American Civil War. From Rocky Face Ridge to the slopes of Kennesaw Mountain, fight your way south just as the generals and soldiers did. See if you can do better on the game table!

These scenarios are designed to be used with almost any American Civil War regimental or brigade level set of rules. Rules are included for figures based on 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100 historic men per figure/stand. Times are given for 10, 15, and 20 minutes per game turn. Maps are in full color, as are the numerous color photographs of the modern battlefield.

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"The Road to Atlanta: Regimental Wargame Scenarios for the Atlanta Campaign May-June 1864 is a well-designed scenario book on the Atlanta Campaign which allows users of many ACW miniatures rules sets to quickly and easily set up games in their format. The color maps are professionally designed with views showing all units and no units so you can better see how to create the playing surface. The Orders of Battle provide both PFDE and figure strengths for easy conversion to any basing model. Ratings are based on a four point system with suggestions for how to convert these to other ratings systems. Butkovich picks a wide variety of scenarios from the possible list, including skirmishes and a cavalry action but also giving users some of the major actions of the major battles of the campaign, including Resaca and Kennesaw Mountain. If you’re a miniature war gamer using any rules set and any basing model, you’ll find that this scenario book works for you with very little conversion needed. Anyone interested in the Atlanta Campaign, even non-war gamers, will find value in this book."

Brett Schulte, editor of The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed – Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War

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"If you are an ACW gamer interested in the Atlanta Campaign, this book should be on your “must have list”! I’m a die hard “Johnny Reb” player and I can guarantee that I will have the rolling hills and pine woods of north Georgia set up on my gaming table very soon!

Cory – Content Manager, Editor and Gamer Guru at Cigar Box Battle.

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"Talented game master and author Brad Butkovich of Historic Imagination is back with another regimental-level Civil War scenario book for use with popular miniatures rules sets. Brad is an excellent researcher with a number of similar scenario books in print, as well as non-fiction Civil War books such as his outstanding account of the 1864 Battle of Pickett’s Mill in Georgia. He has become one of the leading experts on wargaming the 1863 and 1864 fighting in northern Georgia and Tennessee."

Scott L. Mingus Sr, editor of Charge! the newsletter for the Johnny Reb Gaming Society

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