TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

150 Years Ago May 1863 The quick bloodless war that men afraid they would miss is entering its’ third summer.  Both sides are showing signs of strain.  Black wreaths hang on many doors and the streets are full of maimed men.  Some historians think the dead were deliberately undercounted.  Both sides sent badly wounded and […]

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Rich Walker, designer of the new HPS Civil War computer game Campaign Chancellorsville, was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work as a designer and the new game via email.  Rich has designed multiple Civil War games for HPS Simulations at this point, including Campaign Franklin, Campaign Atlanta, Campaign Shiloh, Campaign Antietam, […]

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Recent patches have come out for three Civil War computer games.  Forge of Freedom from Western Civilization and Matrix Games has been updated to version 1.12.2.  Campaign Atlanta from HPS Simulations has been updated to version 1.03.  HPS’ newest Civil War game, Campaign Chancellorsville, is now at version 1.01. Check out more Civil War computer […]

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I recently noticed someone had searched for “Campaign Chancellorsville Scenario List” here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog and I thought it’d be a good idea to provide that information for those looking for it.  After the typical historical and variant scenarios in Campaign Chancellorsville, 85 in all, there are also weather variants, scenarios […]

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I noticed today (hat tip to Chris Dean at the Historical Wargames Usenet group) that HPS Simulations has released Campaign Chancellorsville, the 11th game in their Civil War Battles series of computer wargames. The game covers the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville Campaigns with other smaller cavalry battles thrown in as well. Here’s an initial screen shot […]

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