Set up Stonewall: The Battle of Kernstown. This is a single map, lower counter density game in the Great Battles of The American Civil War Series (GBACW). The game was first published in S&T in 1978, with a boxed version released later.

I’ve been messing around with this system off-and-on (mostly off) for some time, even playing Wilson’s Creek when it came out about 3million years ago, but now want to spend some time with the system. Maybe not all the way to the monster Terrible Swift Sword (Gettysburg) game, but certainly a number of the smaller games, which have been accumulated over the years.

Richard Berg’s original design has evolved quite a bit since introduced in 1976. GMT now owns the franchise, and has published the larger games, many of which are now out of stock.

I’m digesting the rules, and making up a couple of cheat sheets, since the game’s tables are on the map, and not necessarily complete. This will be an incremental approach and hopefully the transition from the earlier to the later rules will be relatively painless. Play will start after I return from Portland and War of Resistance.