Atlanta (board game)

Atlanta, also known as the Atlanta Civil War Campaign Game, is a board wargame designed by Don Lowry and published in 1973 by Guidon Games. It simulates the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, the series of battles and maneuvers that led to the fall of the city and heavily influenced the war's final year. The game is built around an eighteen and three quarter by twenty five inch two color hexagonal grid map, together with two hundred forty cardboard counters representing military units and a set of battle cards governing combat outcomes. It is designed for two players or two teams, one commanding Union forces and the other Confederate forces. Rather than forcing a single fixed scenario, the game lets players simulate individual engagements from the campaign, such as the fighting at Rocky Face Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain or Peachtree Creek, or combine several battles into a longer connected campaign game covering the full advance on Atlanta. This scenario based structure was typical of hobby wargame design in the early 1970s, letting a single set of components support both short introductory battles and a more demanding full campaign for experienced players.