1776 (boardgame)

1776, subtitled The Game of the American Revolutionary War, is a two-player board wargame designed by Randell Reed and published by Avalon Hill in 1974. Its release was timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the American Revolution, and for several years it was a bestseller for the publisher, although sales fell once interest in the bicentennial faded. The box holds a mounted hex-grid map of colonial America from Quebec to Georgia, 416 die-cut counters, combat cards, a rulebook and a six-sided die. Rules come in three levels called Basic, Advanced and Campaign. In the Advanced and Campaign games each player holds eight Tactical cards such as Frontal Assault or Enfilade Left, and combat results are read from a table. The game offers a campaign game plus four scenarios covering the invasion of Canada, the Saratoga campaign, Greene Southern campaign and the Yorktown campaign. A full play takes about two hours.