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Jun 16, 2023·Playthrough·40:13·452·Watch on YouTube

Our God Was My Shield (American Civil War Operational Series #1) - Playthrough

Hexed And Countered

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Watch “Our God Was My Shield (American Civil War Operational Series #1) - Playthrough,” a gameplay video on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Hexed And Countered on YouTube:

First, a caveat: this isn't a full playthrough - I only play one full turn, so you might consider this more of a play example. Now that that's out of the way, the pertinent info: this is a game designed by John Theissen, published by Hollandspiele and is the first in a series covering campaigns of the American Civil War at an operational level. This one covers the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, which is where Stonewall Jackson really earned his reputation as one of the CSA's top generals. The game has some interesting mechanics and plays as more of a sandbox with a lot of operational latitude on both sides. The second game in the series is also available from Hollandspiele and I plan on doing something on that one as well. It's called Mac and Lee and covers McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Peninsula where the goal was to capture Richmond (it didn't work out that way). BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/326092/our-god-was-my-shield-jacksons-valley-campaign Hollandspiele: https://hollandspiele.com/products/our-god-was-my-shield

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Our God Was My Shield: Jackson's Valley Campaign

Our God Was My Shield: Jackson's Valley Campaign

2021·John Theissen

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Some unboxings. Our God Was My Shield: Jackson's Valley Campaign is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.

2 players
150 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Our God Was My Shield: Jackson's Valley Campaign, from BoardGameGeek:

Our God Was My Shield is the first game in John Theissen's American Civil War Operational Series (ACWOS). This series of streamlined card-assisted operational sandboxes builds on Mr. Theissen's work in titles such as More Aggressive Attitudes, Objective Shreveport, and Hood's Last Gamble. Those games had slightly different and not entirely compatible rulesets - each one needed to be learned from scratch. But titles in the new ACWOS share a common core ruleset: learn one game, and you'll know how to play the rest of them. This ruleset is flexible enough to allow each game to have its own geographic and temporal scale and Combat Results Table, as well as special event cards unique to that campaign. Specific units and their strengths are hidden from your opponent as you perform a tense dance of cat-and-mouse maneuvers. When you attack your opponent, there's always a chance they might slip away - or, they might be able to concentrate additional forces, turning what you thought would be an easy victory into a near-run thing, especially if your own forces fail to coordinate. Knowing when to attack and when to hold back, when to run and when to make a stand, are paramount, and as ever, subject to the fortunes of war. The subject of our first title in this series is Jackson's famous 1862 Valley Campaign, which saw him eluding and harassing three Union armies through a combination of boldness and deception. It is perhaps an ideal subject with which to debut this system with its emphasis on maneuver, bluff, and nerve. -description from the publisher

Designer

John Theissen

Artist

Ilya Kudriashov

Publisher

Hollandspiele

Categories

American Civil WarWargame

Mechanics

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