LONGSTREET: Rules and Card Deck (ACW game)

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Game play is driven by the action cards, which are played to invoke phases, during which game actions occur. Each side keeps a hand of action cards that he draws from his action deck. Each card has several symbols and information, indicating that it has the potential to do more than one thing, but can only ever be used for a single thing at any given time. Thus, the players always have to make difficult choices to use a card for one purpose and miss the chance to use it for another purpose.

Each player will need his own pack of cards. To play the basic game, each player uses the action cards from that pack. The basic game enables two players to set up an informal game or historical scenario, and play it to completion in an average of 2-3 hours. The advanced game, which features the grand campaign, also has rules for large multi-player games, creating historical scenarios, and a variety of historical 'flavor' rules, from repeating rifles to US Colored Regiments, to entrenching, and much, much more.