Dixie (board wargame)

Dixie, subtitled "The Second War Between the States", is an alternate world board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates a second American Civil War after the Union lost the first war.

Gameplay

In this game's setting, after the Confederacy emerged from the American Civil War as an independent country, the North and South have gone to war again in the 1930s. The game itself is a two-player brigade/division-level wargame.[1]

Components

The game includes:[2]

  • 22" x 17" paper map
  • four player aid sheets
  • rulebook
  • 100 die-cut counters
  • randomizer chits (to replace dice)

Administration points

Dixie was the first wargame to use Administration Points as a way of regulating how much can be accomplished in a turn.[1] In each turn, the players are given a certain number of Administration points, and use them to "buy" actions. For example, bringing a replacement infantry division onto the board costs two Administration points.

Scenarios

The game includes three scenarios set in 1936 and 1937.

Publication history

In 1976, Redmond Simonsen's alternate world wargame Dixie was published as a pull-out game in issue #116 of Strategy & Tactics. SPI also published it as a stand-alone product packaged in a cardstock folio.

Reception

Writing in Ares Magazine #1, Eric Goldberg was not impressed by Dixie, commenting that "it could be titled 'How Not to Design a Wargame'." Goldberg's biggest issues were that both sides start with equal forces, and that the player best able to manage the Administration Points system would win the game despite mediocre gameplay. He concluded by giving Dixie a very poor rating of only 2 out of 9, saying, "one should not waste time or money on Dixie, but students of the history of wargames might be interested to know that the concept of Administrative Points was invented with this game."[1]

Other reviews

References
  1. Goldberg, Eric (March 1980). "A Galaxy of Games". Ares Magazine. No. 1. Simulations Publications, Inc. p. 28.
  2. "Dixie: The Second War Between the States (1976)". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
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