Borrowing The Army Campaign: Campaign wargames rules for campaigns in the American Civil War Eastern Theater

My Dear McClellan, if you don’t want to use the army I should like to borrow it

for a while.

– Abraham Lincoln

Borrowing The Army is a pair of rulesets and a map. These rules allow you to refight the major campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

Put yourself in the shoes of Jackson, Lee and Grant and refight history; hopefully you can do better than your historic counter-part.

The campaign ruleset sees you organising your forces in theater, getting your corps and divisions into marching columns at the outset of the campaign. These can maneuver and skirmish their way into position to fight a decisive battle. The campaign rules and map are simple enough to learn, but will give you the opportunity to create your own context for a pivotal engagement.