From: Christopher Salander <salander@cadence.com>
Subject: Game review #3

Gettysburg by Chatham Hill Games
Game warning by Chris Salander

Gettysburg is a "tour" game of most famous battle of the
American Civil War.  Unlike Chatham Hill's $7 - $12 games, 
which are "desktop-publishing" quality, this is a full
color game with a mounted mapboard that can cost at least $25.

I am writing this short note not as a review, but as a
warning to wargamers.  After finding one or more of the
simpler Chatham Hill games interesting, you may see the
big, full color Gettysburg box and say, "Oh, that must be
an even better wargame!"  It is *NOT* a wargame.  It is
a "path" game, like Uncle Wiggly.  Players move their
pieces (with pictures of soldiers) around a fairly detailed
map of the battlefield.  They gather information and
answer questions about the battle.  There is no combat.

If you have young children and you would like to interest
them in board games and teach them something about the
Battle of Gettysburg, then you might buy this game.  But
it is not a wargame.