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Date published: 4/1/1977

Designed by: Irad Hardy

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Data: A brigade and division level game with a 66" x 34" map of the Confederacy and border regions and weekly turns.

Comments:
The interesting aspect of this simulation is players can (and perhaps should) follow the same grand strategies of the actual war. The Union needs to build and consolidate, then as the Confederates cannot protect everything, slice off the areas they can't hold. Finally, as the gulf in resources widens, the Union can press and press hard.

Built with historical inputs that yield realistic results, War Between the States provides a simulation level that feels 'right.'  That is pretty high praise.

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Magazine Issue # Date Yr Article Type Article Name Author Author2 PageNumber
Moves 27 Jun/Jul 1976 Works in Progress Designer's Notes
 

 
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Moves 29 Oct/Nov 1976 Works in Progress Designer's Notes
 

 
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Moves 29 Oct/Nov 1976 Advertisements Advertisement: Pre-Publication Offer for War Between the States
 

 
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Moves 35 Oct/Nov 1977 Errata War Between the States
 

 
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Moves 35 Oct/Nov 1977 Operational Analysis War Between the States: Building the Blue Tide and the Gray Levee Jeffery M. Bishop
 
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Moves 38 Apl/May 1978 Review Playback
 

 
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Moves 39 Jun/Jul 1978 Review On the American Civil War: A Review of the Subject as a Game John D. Shelby
 
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Moves 46 Aug/Sep 1979 Replay Moves in English Nicky Palmer
 
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Moves 46 Aug/Sep 1979 Errata War Between the States Nicky Palmer
 
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Moves 54 Dec/Jan 1981 Review Civil War Survey: Capsule Critiques of Games in Print Steve List
 
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Strategy & Tactics 56 May/Jun 1976 Works in Progress Outgoing Mail: Works in Progress SPI Staff
 
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Strategy & Tactics 60 Jan/Feb 1977 Advertisements War Between the States Notice I. B. Hardy
 
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Strategy & Tactics 61 Mar/Apl 1977 Advertisements FP Ad: War Between the States SPI Staff
 
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Strategy & Tactics 63 Jul/Aug 1977 Works in Progress Outgoing Mail - Works in Progress Brad Hessel
 
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Strategy & Tactics 67 Mar/Apl 1978 Other Type Outgoing Mail: Notes from Underground David Isby
 
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Strategy & Tactics 75 Jul/Aug 1979 Other Type SPI Bestseller List
 

 
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