"Who ran a 1860's Turtledove war using V&B rules?" Topic

I remember reading that some club had run an
1860's World War Turtledove style. Anyone remember.
Any links or info/army lists would be great!

I think it was some of the folks in the Austin, TX area. If nobody answers, you might ask the folks at Great Hall Games.

I do not recall Turtledove doing any 1860's "World War" story to base a game on.

My son and I did a 1920's game based on The Center Cannot Hold. Won best game for Cold Wars 2005
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Then we went to Origins and he met Turtledove.
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Perhaps you mean world war in 1960's? Or second civil war in 1870's

Bob and Dog,
I am very impressed!

McKinstry, That was the group!

Yes, we did a campaign set in 1861 using Volley and Bayonet to fight the battles. Unfortunately, like many campaigns, it was tried to do too much and quickly ground to a halt. While most players say they like campaigns so that the battles have consequences, when they have consequences no one wants to take risks and will only fight when they have 3:1 odds. In those cases, the opponents have no interest in getting trounced (or spending time setting up the table top to do so).

There are not really any artifacts on the web. We killed the yahoo group where it had all resided.

Is Harry Turtledove the same person as Harry Harrison?

No.

It is critical for campaigns to have ways to resolve battles other than on the table top. That way you can play the lopsided battles by rolling the dice. People do not want to set up and play a game where they are outnumbered most of the time.

Yes, we had that. So there were very few table top battles, especially between player countries. Almost all the actual battles played were between European powers and peoples of Asia and Europe, where another Player would take over the minor country for the duration.