Lincoln

Lincoln is a fast-paced, two player, card-driven strategy wargame set in the American Civil War – allowing you to refight the entire American Civil War at a strategic level in under two hours!

Game play uses area movement, area control, and decks of cards to provide your command choices and luck – there are no dice in Lincoln! The Union and Confederate players each have their own card decks, reflecting the relative strengths and weaknesses of both sides.

The Union player must do all the running to win the game by the time he or she has cycled through the Union card deck for the third time, having accumulated the required amount of victory points by capturing Confederate-controlled areas, as well as squeezing the Confederate player with a naval blockade. The Confederate player must hold on and thwart the North’s victory ambitions to win!   

For the Confederate player, building too many units can lead to problems with movement and combat, simulating the problems the Southern States had as the war dragged on – for example, they had to ‘eat’ their rail network to provide iron for munitions. But building too few units will allow the Union to roll your forces over too easily, capture victory point areas and win the game – there are difficult and careful command decisions to be made!