Our God Was My Shield

Game design: John Theissen Map artist: Ilya Kudriashov Hex number: 59 Duration: 180 minutes Players: 2 Solitaire Suitability: High Theme: American Civil War MSRP: $60.00 Our God Was My Shield is the first game in John Theissen's American Civil War Operational Series (ACWOS). This series of streamlined card-assisted operational sandboxes builds on Mr. Theissen's work in titles such as More Aggressive Attitudes, Objective Shreveport, and Hood's Last Gamble. Those games had slightly different and not entirely compatible rulesets - each one needed to be learned from scratch. But titles in the new ACWOS share a common core ruleset: learn one game, and you'll know how to play the rest of them. This ruleset is flexible enough to allow each game to have its own geographic and temporal scale and Combat Results Table, as well as special event cards unique to that campaign. Specific units and their strengths are hidden from your opponent as you perform a tense dance of cat-and-mouse maneuvers. W