Description
For the People 4th Printing - 25th Anniversary Edition is a grand Civil War strategy game that covers the conflict from Texas to Pennsylvania, from the firing of Fort Sumter to the end at Appomattox Court House. You play as President Lincoln or President Davis, commanding armies, promoting and relieving generals, leading amphibious assaults, sending cavalry raids and even battling incompetence and political intrigue among your own cabinet members.
For the People includes a strategic card game for campaigning and integrating the many events and personalities of the war. The Confederate player can build battleships, naval mines (torpedoes), submarines, make foreign purchases and work for foreign intervention.
The Union player can build his naval blockade, battleship fleet, fight conscription riots, secure border states and issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Relive the history of this exciting era when our nation was torn apart.
