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Lee vs. Grant: The Wilderness Campaign of 1864

#5680BGG ↗

1988 · 2-2 players · 120min · weight 3.09 · 312 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
5680
Name
Lee vs. Grant: The Wilderness Campaign of 1864
Year
1988
Rank
6665
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
120
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
120
Avg weight
3.0909
Num weights
44
Bayes avg
5.68288
Average
7.19337
Users rated
312
Num owned
941
Wanting
15
Wishing
58
Num comments
183
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Hexagon GridSimulation
Categories (2)
American Civil WarWargame
Description (861 chars)

This game simulates the decisive 1864 spring campaign in Virginia during the American Civil War, nicknamed The Wilderness Campaign. Players control the Union and Confederate armies which took part. The game is played in turns that represent five days. A unit's strength point represents approximately 2,500 men commanded by a leader. The map is a 1:200,000 representation of an area between Fredricksburg and Petersburg. The game is split into two: Basic and Advanced. The basic game introduces players to the concepts of movement and unit activation. The advanced game adds sea movement, supply, and additional leader rules. Victory conditions depends on the scenario being played. Lee vs. Grant is arguably the first game in the GCACW series by the same designer albeit from a different (though related) publisher and with a different map art style.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.