The 20th Maine, subtitled The Battle for Little Round Top, is a tactical board wargame designed by Leonard Millman and first published in 1979 by the Operational Studies Group as part of a line of compact pocket sized wargames. Avalon Hill later reissued the same design in 1982 under the title Little Round Top. The game recreates the fighting for control of Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, with one player commanding the Union defenders, anchored by the historical 20th Maine Regiment, and the other commanding the attacking Confederate forces. Despite its small 17 by 22 inch hexagonal map and set of roughly one hundred counters, the design packs relatively sophisticated mechanics across its twelve pages of rules, including a command allowance system in which officers distribute a limited pool of command points to the units under them to enable movement and combat. The battle unfolds over eighteen turns, each representing six minutes of real time, with victory decided by a combination of casualties inflicted and control of key terrain hexes.
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is a board wargame published by Operational Studies Group (OSG) in 1979
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is a board wargame published by Operational Studies Group (OSG) in 1979
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The 20th Maine, subtitled "The Battle for Little Round Top", is a board wargame published by Operational Studies Group (OSG) in 1979 that simulates the battle for possession of a hill called Little Round Top that anchored the left flank of the Union Army on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The game was republished by Avalon Hill in 1982 and titled Little Round Top.
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