{"id":433,"date":"2008-03-07T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/2008\/03\/07\/hps-releases-campaign-antietam-and-mexican-american-war\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:34:44","slug":"hps-releases-campaign-antietam-and-mexican-american-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/2008\/03\/07\/hps-releases-campaign-antietam-and-mexican-american-war\/","title":{"rendered":"HPS Releases Campaign Antietam and Mexican-American War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpssims.com\/index.htm\">HPS Simulations<\/a> today released the latest title in their Civil War Battles series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpssims.com\/Pages\/products\/RifMusk\/Antietam\/Antietam.html\">Campaign Antietam<\/a>, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpssims.com\/Pages\/products\/RifMusk\/MexAm\/mexam.html\">Mexican-American War<\/a>, a title which should be of some interest to Civil War wargamers.  The games are selling initially at an introductory rate of $39.95, but will eventually revert to the standard price of $49.95.  Details on Antietam from the HPS site are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00b7 199 stand alone scenarios and 164 campaign scenarios<br \/>\n\u00b7 3 different campaigns for a varied campaign experience, each also has a &#8220;weather variant&#8221; to choose from.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Historical scenarios include: 1st Bull Run, 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, Groveton (Brawner&#8217;s Farm), Chantilly, Cedar Mountain and South Mountain<br \/>\n\u00b7 Dozens of &#8220;What if&#8221; scenarios: Including meeting engagements, cavalry fights, and equal force battles.<br \/>\n\u00b7 39 scenarios specifically designed for a tough challenge against the A\/I.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Many meeting engagements using the new random hex feature. The extreme effects of FOW will be more fully demonstrated.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Large maps shared from HPS&#8217; classic Campaign Gettysburg.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Inclusive orders of battle offer unlimited possibilities for user-created scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Features<\/p>\n<p>Engine changes include:<br \/>\n\u00b7 Added new Optional Melee Resolution Optional Rule: Units must move and fire before melee.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Added new Artillery Ammo by Cannon Optional Rule. Each cannon fired will count as one ammo point used.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Added new Random hex and time for incoming reinforcements. Neither side will know exactly when and where new troops will arrive.<br \/>\nScenario and Campaign editors are included to allow the player to create their own situations to play out. Play modes include A\/I, Hot Seat, PBEM, LAN &amp; Internet play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPS Simulations today released the latest title in their Civil War Battles series, Campaign Antietam, along with Mexican-American War, a title which should be of some interest to Civil War wargamers. The games are selling initially at an introductory rate of $39.95, but will eventually revert to the standard price of $49.95. Details on Antietam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10,78,12,25,92,86],"tags":[120,4502,131,132,121,4504],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns-battles","category-game-publishers","category-games-new","category-wargames","category-eastern-theater","category-hps-simulations","category-strategy-tactics","tag-antietam","tag-hps-simulations","tag-mexican-american-war","tag-rich-hamilton","tag-rich-walker","tag-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brettschulte.net\/CWBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}