Gate of Hell - Campaign for Charleston 1863 (EN)

Players in A Gate of Hell: The Campaign for Charleston, July-Sept. 1863 are cast in the roles of the historical commanders of the campaign; Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard for the Confederate defenders of Charleston, or Admiral Dahlgren and General Quincy Adams Gillmore of the Union. Can you do as well or better than they?
A Gate of Hell uses an interactive design to portray this decisive battle of the American Civil War. Players use "military support points" (MSPs), representing the logistical and political support for the campaign, to mobilize and support their forces (ground and naval) on one of the most inhospitable battlegrounds of the war. Both sides have a variety of military assets to deploy, but the planning and effective use of MSPs throughout the game will determine in large measure who is the victor. Units represent mostly regiments for the ground units, and each ironclad for the naval units. All of the famous batteries and forts, including Sumter and Wagner, are portrayed.
Rules cover Assault and Bombardment combats, multiple activations, the effects of battles elsewhere that can influence the actions at Charleston, the Union's "Swamp Angel", as well as the early completions of the Confederate ironclad Charleston and submarine Hunley.
Three scenarios are in included. One is on the April 1863 naval offensive by all of the Union ironclads that sought to defeat the rebel's fortresses and is an excellent single-turn introduction to the game's naval combat rules. A second is another single-turn scenario on the initial Union assault on Morris Island and Battery Wagner. These single turn scenarios take under an hour to game, and are well-suited for tournament play. The third covers the entire campaign and that takes about 6 hours to complete.