SGS Battle For: Fort Donelson PC

SGS Battle for Fort Donelson is a tactical game, the first in an SGS series dedicated to the great battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865). With a new gameplay specially created and designed to simulate the characteristics of the armies and battles of the period, it recreates, at infantry regiment scale, with a turn-based system representing one hour and zones of around 300 meters, the few days of fighting around Fort Donelson, on the banks of the Cumberland River in northwest Tennessee, in February 1862.

It was one of the first and most important battles of the war, and the first major success for General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant, with decisive consequences for the rest of the conflict. By seizing Fort Henry in the middle of winter and forcing the 15,000-strong garrison of Donelson to surrender, Grant inflicted a disaster on the Confederacy, opening the gates to the invasion of the "Deep South" to the Union armies, while forcing the "Grays" to evacuate Kentucky and the precious capital of Tennessee, Nashville, 60 miles away.

Yet this battle was far from won in advance. Grant and his 20,000 men had their work cut out for them, and even came close to disaster, winning by the skin of their teeth thanks to the panic of their opponents. As a Union player, you'll have to do at least as well: seize the fortifications and crush the "rebel" army against you, or at least, with the help of Commodore Foote's armored river gunboats, shake their morale enough to surrender. There are many ways to win... or lose.…