Sharpsburg: Landscape Turned Red is a two player area-impulse game simulating the great battle of Antietam as it is known in the north, or the battle of Sharpsburg in the south. One player takes command of the Union Army under General George B. McClellan and the other, the Army of the Confederate States of America under Robert E Lee.
Many historical works use phrases like "McClellan outnumbered Lee 2 to 1", or "Lee had his back to the Potomac", "McClellan had plenty of time", "He should have destroyed Lee's entire army!" and so on. The design highlights the fundamental problem (that all sides shared) was their inability to coordinate and move every single unit of their command in unison.
The game shows how hard it was to completely destroy an enemy army, no matter what the numbers. While the Union army outnumbers the Confederates, in this game, numbers count ‘for something', but not everything. Players will come to understand that Sharpsburg is not the complete ‘cakewalk' gamers think it should be.
Sharpsburg: Landscape Turned Red and issue #64 of ATO:
Map - One full color 22" x 34" area mapsheet
Counters - 176 full color 5/8" die-cut pieces
Rules length - 12 pages
Charts and tables - 2 pages
Complexity - Medium
How challenging is it solitaire? - Average
Design - Gilbert Collins
Development - Russ Lockwood
Graphics - Mark Mahaffey
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