Grant - The Western Campaign of 1862 (Compass Games): First Look
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- A first look at the game Grant - The Western Campaign of 1862, published by Compass Games and designed by Jon Southard. This point-to-point American Civil War wargame covers the campaign on the western Union armies in western Tennessee in 1862.
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Thank you for the excellent first look video. I am very interested in the ACW Western and Trans Mississippi campaigns. This game looks very interesting. How the combined arms aspects of naval and land forces is treated in this game will be interesting to see.. I look forward to seeing your game play video.
Thanks. I visited Shiloh and Stone's River with my son in December and that really sparked additional interest for the Western campaign for me. In wargaming there's always been a lot of focus on the Eastern theater, but seeing Grant's development as a commander (and Sherman's too for that matter) in the West is interesting.
I've been on the ACW kick for a while now, really looking forward to more playthroughs on this one to decide if I want to give it a try - with Compass prices being what they are in the UK I'm a bit more choosey in what I get from them...
I've been getting more and more into ACW myself (and Napoleonics as well) after so much of my gaming was focused on WWII. I can understand the pricing issues, inflation has really hit hard and shipping costs are extravagant, even domestically here in the US.
@@HexedAndCountered Yeah, GMT has an agreement with some European shops (Second Chance for UK and Udo Grebe for EU) that helps to mitigate those costs, but for Compass/MMP they are usually deal breakers
Yes, I've just been on the Second Chance website to check this out, where it's still only pre-order status. I am quite tempted as it's a reasonable price for a Compass game, but Second Chance pre-order can mean next week or, alternatively, this year next year sometime never 😅 so I might hold fire a while.
I've been hesitant in purchasing Compass titles for years and I live in the US. 😄
Price not only being a concern but also wariness of picking up something with rules issues or mounds of errata & misprints.
Perhaps the latter is better in recent years, I don't know since it's been awhile since I last checked. GMT seems to have been heading into those same issues what with all the 2nd editions, reprints, and Update packs coming out so soon afterward to fix the originals. Nobody's perfect but there can be patterns.
This game as a House Divided feel and look to it. I would probably enjoy it but I’ve spend a bit too much since Christmas and I also want to dive into another system that is catching my interest, I will have to past on it for now, maybe another time
I can certainly understand that!
This one's a complete redesign of the 80s game Grant Moves South from the same designer (Jon Southard). Having played his Carrier Battle: Philippine Sea game, I'm looking forward to giving it a go.
Kind of funny. Technically, rather than playing just Grant you are actually in the role of playing Halleck because he was the theater commander. However the Halleck chit just says "Halleck Interference".
That's true. You have both Grant's and Buell's armies, both under Halleck. Of course, calling it "Halleck: Campaign in the West 1862" probably wouldn't catch anyone's attention, lol.
@@HexedAndCountered It most definitely would not get much attention. hehe
Thanks for the video. This one is on my buy list, but I have to admit I’m a little disappointed in the map. It looks like a playtest map to me. Fwiw. I’m looking forward to a play through. Cheers.
Thanks - I can see that. My guess is it boiled down to function over form due to the scale of the theater, the need to make the counters fit, and also be able to display adjacent areas, particularly with the rivers since those need to have flow directions for upriver/downriver as well as junctions where one flows into another, etc.