Command Magazine #22

   Antietam: Burnished Rows of Steel is a Tactical level board-wargame of the bloodiest single-day battle in the American Civil War.

  Rob ert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had invaded Maryland and taken harper's Ferry, but a cop of one of his written orders found by Union forces had exposed his plans. On 17 September, 1962, near the small Maryland town of Sharpsburg, George B. McClellan's Army of the  Potomac brought the Rebels to bay, with the Potomac River at their back and the Antietam Creek to their front.

  For Lee and his army, it was a desperate chance to win a victory on Northern soil and gain foreign recognition for their cause. For McClellan it was a chance both to save his career and destroy the most dangerous Rebel army to "nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of Earth."

  In the end, neither man attained his objective, despite the most frightful day of killing in American History

 Game turns are sequential, with each player moving, firing artillery, and then having two rounds of combat, each in turn. Also provided are rules for solitaire play.

  Victory is determined by victory points earned by the Union player for capturing and maintaining control of geographical objectives and Confederate unit losses. If the Confederate player can hold the Union to less than 25 points, they win. Victory conditions are slightly different for the Solitaire game..

Game Components:

• Rules (17pp as part of the Game Insert Booklet)
• 283 16mm die cut counters
• One 22” X 34” full color map
• Beginners Notes
• Old Hands notes (presumably old fingers and toes too)
• Historical Notes
• Designer’s Notes

• Commanders List
• Victory Objectives
• Levels of Victory
• Historical Setup
• Combat Examples
• Expanded Turn Sequence
• Charts & Tables (no chairs) 
• Solitaire Rules

• Each Hex represents 250 yards from side to side
• Game Turns represent 60 minutes of real time
• Units Represent Brigades & Batteries
• Each Infantry unit represents a brigade (500-2,500 men) or half-brigade
• Each Artillery Unit represents several batteries (usually 4-6 guns per battery)
• Designed by:   Johnathan Southard
• Developed by: Ty Bomba & Chris Perello (who else?)

Also Includes:

• 13 16mm die cut counters for Smithereens Variant (Folio)
• 6 16mm die cut counters for Victory in Normandy Errata  (Folio)
• 2 16mm die cut counters for Port Arthur Errata (Command #19)

Game Supplement Contents

Issue Game: Antietam (by John Southard)

D-Elim - Player’s Notes for Antietam: (Includes: Both Players; Union Player; Confederate Player; Solitaire Notes)

Errata (Errata, clarifications and additions. Includes:
  Port Arthur (Command #19, includes 2 16mm counters)
  Blood & Iron (Command #21)
  Victory in Normandy (Folio Game. includes 6 16mm counters to cover the  Errata from Command #21)

Variants (additions and extras. Includes:
  Victory in Normandy: "Cobra" Strikes (Folio, A short Campaign Scenario)
  Smithereens: Axis Yugoslavians  (Folio with Design Notes and 6 16mm counters )
  Smithereens: Nazi Weird Science (Folio with Design Notes and 7 16 mm counters)
  Gettysburg (Command #17, Variant with Design note)

Commander’s Call (News and views of what is happening with Command Magazine Games with the usual amount of high-end pontification included by Ty Bomba.
  Includes: Origins '93 (in Fort Worthless TX (I know, I was there-Egor); Word Spreads; Gamex '93; Work Wanted; Hexacon; The Game Schedule; Progress in Works Dept; Feed Back; Objective Hanoi Plebiscite; Magazine Schedule; New Game Proposals; Consumer Survey)

Chrisfire - Game Design (Design discussions by Chris Perello (the one who always "develops" most of the games from XTR) With a little Ty Bomba thrown in. includes; In Defense of Igo-Hugo; Problems; Alternating Alternatives; Oh No! Not Games vs. Simulations Again!; Reviewing the Reviewers (by Ty Bomba) )

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Magazine Contents

Antietam: High Stakes, Lost Opportunities (Historical Article by Jonathan Southard. Includes: Background; Stakes & Objectives; The Army Commanders; The Maryland Campaign; Deployment and Terrain; McClellan's Options; Course of the Battle; Victory & Defeat; A Bibliographic Guide
  Maps: Troop Movements (9/3, 9/10, 9/13); The Battle: Dawn-7:30am; 7:30-9:00 am; 9:00 am-1:00 pm; 1:00 =4:30 pm
  Sub Articles: The Armies of Antietam (The Army of Northern Virginia; The Army of the Potomac; TO&E Charts: The Confederate Army at the Battle of Antietam; ; The Union Army at the Battle of Antietam)

Hammer of Victory: The Normandy Campaign, 1944 (Historical Article by Ben Knight. Includes: Allied Planning; Linking the Beaches; German Leadership; Cherbourg & "Epsom"; Carpet Bombing Begins; Operation "Cobra"
  Maps: Normandy: 2400, 6 June 1944; The Allied Buildup (10 June - 24 July); Operation Cobra; The Normandy Breakout; Encirclement & Liberation; Conclusion
  Organization Charts: Allied Divisional Order of Battle, Normandy, 25 July 1944; German Divisional Order of Battle, Normandy, 25 July 1944)
  Sub Articles: V for Vengeance (V1 Flying Bomb; V2 Rocket)

A New Kind of War ( Historical Article by George Friedman & Meredith LeBard. Includes: The Trouble with Guns; 31 August 2014: Background; Space war; The Japanese Plan; 21st Century Commandos; The Raid; American reaction; Conclusions
   Charts: The American C3I/RISTA System over East Asia)

Operation Icarus: The German Plan to Invade Iceland (Historical Article by Carl O. Schuster. Includes: 
  Maps: Operation Icarus
  Sub Articles: Germany's Ground Forces for Icarus; Alabaster Forces: Britain's Iceland Garrison; Icarus: The Aerial Dimension; Icarus: The Naval Dimension)

A Non-Partisan View of World War II Yugoslavia (Historical Article by Vern Liebl. Includes: The Situation in 1939; Prelude to Invasion; The Attack; Yugoslavia Partitioned: Italo-German Friction; The View from Berlin; The End; Sources
  Maps: The Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia - April 1941; The divided jigsaw puzzle
  Sub Articles: The Bulgarian Occupation; The Albanians; The Croats (with stamps); Bosnian Moslems; The Volksdeutsch; The Serbs; The Chetnicks; The Slovenes; The Hungarian Occupation; Yugoslavs in the German Army and Waffen SS; The Partisan View
  Charts:  Yugoslavia's Ethnic Makeup in 1941)

Hearts and Minds: The US Army Green Berets Today (Historical Article by Marty Kufus. Includes: Hearts & Minds; The Q Course; Fort Sam Houston; Casualties; Trauma 1, 2, and 3; Mechanism of Injury; Pass or Fail; Clinical; More Training; Quiet Professionals
  Charts:  US Army Special Forces Today
  Sub Articles: Urban Violence Gives SF Medics "Battlefield" Training)

For Czar and Country: A History of the Russian Rifle Corps, 1942-1945 (Historical Article by Antonioo J. Munoz. Includes: A Czarist Emigre Army; An Aging Army Goes to War; The Russian Rifle Corps is Formed; The Corps Engages the Red Army; End of the Russian Rifle Corps; The Reckoning: Forced Repatriation; Sources
  Tables: The Russian Rifle Corps; Axis O.B.: Operation White
  Maps:  Yugoslavia, Sept-Oct 1944)

Commentary: Some Thoughts on World War II (Historical Commentary by Gerhard I. Weinberg. Includes: Germany; Gfreat Britain; France; The Soviet Union; The Pacific War; The United States: In Sum)
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I Remember – Desert Storm: Another Woman's Perspective (Historical Recollection by Cyndy Tschanz.)

Unit Symbols (They're not just pretty pictures, they represent stuff)

Short Rounds (Short Articles on sometimes kook and Interesting Stuff.  Includes:
   Mysteries Revealed: German-Soviet Peace Talks, 1941-44 ; Happy New Year, Q, Fulvius Nobilior 
   Humor: Under a Flag of Truce  
   Movers & Shakers:  Of Sterner Stuff (Sir Evelyn Wood) 
   Weapons Backdate: The First Panzer of World War II; The Doves of War )

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