2025Kip Allen, Edward Curran, Irad B. Hardy, Tom Walczyk, John Young
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1 - 2 players60 - 120 minMedium weight
Lee Moves North: The Confederate Summer Offensive, 1862 & 1863
1972John Young
2 players
180 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
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Lee Moves North: The Confederate Summer Offensive, 1862 and 1863 covers both of Robert E. Lee's summer offenses (1862 & 1863) at the corps/division level using hidden deployment of units and dummy counters and one week turns. Confederate forces must go on the attack to win while the Union army struggles to protect Washington, DC and Baltimore. The map is very basic and players each have about 20 units each to control, creating a game that focuses on Civil War-era strategy rather than details and chrome. Confederate units are divisions while Union units are corps; and cavalry are represented by brigades. Rules cover dummies units, cavalry probes and screens, forced marches, rail movement, and leadership and command issues while the units take losses by steps. Although not visually appealing, “Lee Moves North” is a playable and subtle game of two Civil War campaigns at the operational level. Uses a system similar to SPI's The Wilderness Campaign: Lee vs. Grant, 1864.
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Lee Moves North: The Confederate Summer Offensive, 1862 & 1863 has 2 videos from 1 creator: 1 how-to-play guide and 1 playthrough. They date from August 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Lee Moves North - Reading the manual" by Nathan Wailes Gaming, which runs 1 h 52 min.
To see it played, watch "Lee Moves North - 1862 scenario - First time playing" by Nathan Wailes Gaming.
If you like it, try Blue & Gray Deluxe Edition, Dreadnought: Surface Combat in the Battleship Era, 1906-45, The Fall of Rome and Blue & Gray II: Four Civil War Battles, also by John Young.
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- Videos
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- Creators
- 1
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2 players120 minMedium weight
About Lee Moves North: The Confederate Summer Offensive, 1862 & 1863
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Lee Moves North: The Confederate Summer Offensive, 1862 and 1863 covers both of Robert E. Lee's summer offenses (1862 & 1863) at the corps/division level using hidden deployment of units and dummy counters and one week turns. Confederate forces must go on the attack to win while the Union army struggles to protect Washington, DC and Baltimore. The map is very basic and players each have about 20 units each to control, creating a game that focuses on Civil War-era strategy rather than details and chrome. Confederate units are divisions while Union units are corps; and cavalry are represented by brigades. Rules cover dummies units, cavalry probes and screens, forced marches, rail movement, and leadership and command issues while the units take losses by steps. Although not visually appealing, “Lee Moves North” is a playable and subtle game of two Civil War campaigns at the operational level. Uses a system similar to SPI's The Wilderness Campaign: Lee vs. Grant, 1864.
Designer
John Young
Artist
Redmond Aksel Simonsen
Publisher
SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)
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Mechanics
Dice RollingGrid MovementHex GridArea Movement