Veracruz: U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1847

Veracruz: U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1847 is a two-player board wargame that Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) released in 1977. Designed by Richard Berg with graphics by Redmond A. Simonsen, the game recreates General Winfield Scott's American campaign against Mexico from March through November of 1847, part of the wider Mexican-American War. One player directs the invading United States forces while the opponent commands the defending Mexican army, moving units across a map of the Veracruz-to-Mexico City corridor. Play runs across a fixed 25-turn structure, and the American side wins by seizing and holding the major Mexican cities along that route before the campaign clock runs out, giving the game a race-against-time character on top of its combat resolution. As an SPI folio-style historical wargame from the mid-1970s, it belongs to a wave of hex-and-counter designs the company produced covering lesser-known nineteenth-century conflicts alongside its better-known World War II and Napoleonic titles.