I had Terrible Swift Sword but I sold it off. Gettysburg at the regimental level, except perhaps for the first day, is perhaps a good game for war gaming lifers at San Quentin but is beyond the time I can give to any hobby. I will have to be content with the movie:
Very interesting. Donald, what’s your evaluation of Avalon Hill’s original Gettysburg game? I used to play it as a teenager on summer vacation but lost touch with it after starting college. We had fun with it but we enjoyed AH’s D-Day more. I don’t remember why, exactly. 🤷🏻♂️
A good player game. Not too realistic, but for when it came out not too bad. AH also did a game on Chancellorsville which came out in that era. Hard to find. I have it and the improvement in historicity was striking. Not good, but much better.
Oh just the sight of an Avalon Hill box brings back good memories….
Optimist – Memories of back when I thought that dice were all six-sided.
“Things will get out of hand. That’s why we have orders…”
Heth might have exclaimed “It’s those damned Black Hats” and the rest of the Iron Brigade that prevented him from immediately taking the field on July 1 without becoming fully engaged just throwing excuses for not following Lee’s orders to A.P. Hill, Of course, he had a tendency to follow the maxim “Ready, Fire, Aim…” so it was very much consistent with his aggressive, albeit not always prudent approach to command. He was a lucky guy. That might explain it. Not many people got shot in the head and lived to tell about it in that war.
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Heth and Lee were close personal friends, but Lee never allowed such facts to cloud his command decisions. The Confederates had a good day on July 1. In hindsight Lee should have rested his army on July 2 and then begun maneuvering his army between Gettysburg and Washington, hoping to force Meade to fight an open field battle to protect Washington. The absence of Stuart, of course, narrowed his options.