To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears

Optional rules include limitations on advances after combat, Union siege train artillery, and variable Confederate reinforcements. With a small 17' x 22' paper hex grid map and only 100 counters, the rules for this game have been characterized as 'simple.' This completes one turn, which represents two hours of game time. The game uses a simple 'I Go, You Go' system of alternating turns in which one player moves and attacks, followed by the other player. The game, which lasts 20 turns, starts with most of the Confederate forces on the map and most of the Union forces off the map. Road to Richmond is a two-player board wargame where one player controls the Union army, and the other the Confederate army during 26–28 June 1862, the central three days of the Seven Days Battle. Lee, who proved to be a much more formidable leader during the pivotal Seven Days Battles. Johnston, but when Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, he was replaced by General Robert E. McClellan was initially successful against the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia led by General Joseph E.

McCLellan launched the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern theater of the American Civil War, landing his army at Fort Monroe and moving northwest, up the Virginia Peninsula, in the hopes of capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 during the American Civil War. Road to Richmond, subtitled 'The Peninsular Campaign, May–July, 1862', is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. Cover of Strategy & Tactics #60, which contained Road to Richmond as a pull-out game

To the Gates of Richmond by Stephen W. Sears