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Date published: 8/1/1979
Designed by: Richard Berg
Developed by: Rich Berg & Tom Walczyk
Data: Regimental level Civil War battle game using prize-winning TSS system. Two game maps, 2000 counters, individual leaders, fire and melee, morale, stragglers, gunboats, and more. Includes full historical article.
Comments:
The long awaited follow-up to the super hit Terrible Swift Sword. But how do you follow an act like TSS? Berg added more chrome for this immensely important battle. But this is not the gradually expanding battle that Gettysburg offered. In Bloody April, both sides are largely on-board from the beginning, and rather than clear fields and roads to follow as in TSS, at Shiloh the field is densely wooded and the Union is disorganized. Perhaps the difficulty was not with the many new rules Berg offered, as much as it was with the difficulty of getting organized, and conducting an exciting experience, instead of a multitude of pitched battles with lots of new chrome and bookkeeping.
Details:
2 Maps, where 1 hex = 115 yards. There are 1200
Counters.
Each unit is a Regiment or Battery or Leader.
Each strength point = 100 men or 1 gun.
Each turn is 20 minutes of real time.
Formats:
Bloody April arrived as a 4" box game, Cat# 2510
and in z-pack Cat# 2511.
Pricing:
The preorder price in January of '79 was $16. It was published at $27. In 1981, with the arrival of the double boxed set of Jackson at the Crossroads and Battle of Corinth, which would debut at $25, both TSS and Bloody April would be offered for $25 each. ( See advertisement below.)
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| Moves | 40 | Aug/Sep | 1978 | Works in Progress | Designer's Notes |
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| Moves | 41 | Oct/Nov | 1978 | Works in Progress | Designer's Notes |
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| Moves | 42 | Dec/Jan | 1979 | Works in Progress | Designer's Notes |
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| Moves | 43 | Feb/Mar | 1979 | Works in Progress | Designer's Notes |
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| Moves | 45 | Jun/Jul | 1979 | Works in Progress | Designer's Notes |
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| Moves | 49 | Feb/Mar | 1980 | Review | FO | Eric Goldberg |
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| Moves | 54 | Dec/Jan | 1981 | Review | Civil War Survey: Capsule Critiques of Games in Print | Steve List |
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| Moves | 56 | Apl/May | 1981 | Operational Analysis | Moves in English | Pete Bartlam |
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| Moves | 56 | Apl/May | 1981 | Advertisements | Advertisement: SPI's Great Game Lineup |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 56 | May/Jun | 1976 | Feedback | Feedback Questions |
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| Moves | 57 | Jun/Jul | 1981 | Advertisements | Advertisement: Great Battles of the American Civil War Vol. 5 & 6 |
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| Moves | 59 | Oct/Nov | 1981 | Advertisements | Advertisement: Jackson at the Crossroads and Battle of Corinth |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 70 | Sep/Oct | 1978 | Works in Progress | Works in Progress | SPI Staff |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 71 | Nov/Dec | 1978 | Works in Progress | Works in Progress | SPI Staff |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 74 | May/Jun | 1979 | Works in Progress | Outgoing Mail: Works in Progress | SPI Staff |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 77 | Nov/Dec | 1979 | Other Type | SPI BESTSELLER LIST Jul / Aug '79 |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 78 | Jan/Feb | 1980 | Feature Article | Outgoing Mail | Brad Hessel |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 78 | Jan/Feb | 1980 | Errata | Errata / Addenda Available Updates | Eric Goldberg |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 78 | Jan/Feb | 1980 | Other Type | SPI Bestsellers List, Sept/Oct 1979 |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 79 | Mar/Apl | 1980 | Feature Article | SPI BestSeller List Nov/Dec 1979 |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 80 | May/Jun | 1980 | Feedback | SPI Bestsellers Jan/Feb 1980: |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 82 | Sep/Oct | 1980 | Advertisements | Military Game Titles from SPI (Advertisement) |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 83 | Nov/Dec | 1980 | Advertisements | FP Ad for Various SPI Games |
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| Strategy & Tactics | 86 | May/Jun | 1981 | Advertisements | AD: Full page ad for Bloody April |
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