Chancellorsville: 1863, Lee’s “perfect battle” because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory.

Chancellorsville: 1863 is the second game in Worthington Games new Battle Formations series – an innovative card driven board game on the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Chancellorsville: 1863 has been designed for easy set up and quick gameplay. Unit placement is shown on the game board and units are wooden markers representing troop formations. Players decide which formation to activate and how far to push it once it begins attacking. Push it just enough and they can win the day. Push it too much and failing a morale test will break it.

The decision is yours…

Chancellorsville: 1863 uses many of the concepts from Freeman's Farm 1777.

What stays basically the same?

• Combat
• How formations are activated and the receiving of momentum cubes by the play of formation cards
• The use of leaders like Gates, Arnold, and Burgoyne --- now Lee, Jackson, and Hooker
• The use of tactics cards

What's Unique?

• Hidden movement -- the game uses mini-maps that allow for some hidden movement and variable setup of some formations.
• More movement -- formations frequently move on the board and combat occurs when two formations of opposing sides end in the same location.
• Reinforcement by transfer of cohesion points between formations
• A card driven solitaire engine
• Formation cards allow for multiple formations to activate with major and minor activations.Major allow two moves while minor allow one move.
• Prepared positions --- spend your activations to build redoubts.

Gamers who own Freeman's Farm and are familiar with its concepts will be up and playing in 15 minutes.And with quick setup and game play, gamers will be able to play multiple games in an evening.

Contents:

• Large mounted game board
• Union formation activation cards
• Confederate formation activation cards
• Union bot activation cards (for solitaire play)
• Confederate bot activation cards (for solitaire play)
• Tactic cards
• Confederate and Union reinforcement cards
• 2 x player screens for hidden movement (with player aid)
• Cohesion cubes
• Momentum cubes
• Redoubt markers
• 5 x Dice
• 2 x Rules