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This is a game that was specifically played so that players could follow the mechanics of the game. I go through virtually all the activations explaining the various issues and modifiers. It is a tutorial that you can come back to in order to check how things are done.
In this particular battle set in the American Civil War, the two forces came on like shadows feeling their way toward a village that did not care who owned it. The Confederates were few, worn into hard shapes by earlier fights, and they dragged a light gun as if it were an old companion. Across the field, the Union massed in larger bodies — green troops, stiff in their newness, their faces still unmarked by the grammar of battle.
Both armies began off the field, as though the land itself had not yet decided to admit them. Captain Robert McElwain, a Southern man with the look of one who had learned too much from gun‑smoke, moved his veterans with a quiet certainty. Opposite him, Captain Robert Hale brought on his great blue columns, the men stumbling forward with the earnest confusion of recruits. It was, in a way, a battle of Bobs, though neither found humour in the fact.
Side A wore the Union blue; Side B the Confederate grey. They entered the field by degrees, each step a negotiation with fear and duty. What followed in the pictures is simply the truth of how they came on, and how the village waited for whichever side proved stubborn enough to claim it.
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