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Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns
2014
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Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns is a board game expansion released in 2014 for 2 players. It was designed by Michael Bennighof and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Action Points, and Area-Impulse.
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About the game
This is the sixth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 21 additional counters with rules on their inclusion in two games. —user summary For Frontier Battles, we look at Austria's too-little-too-late attempts to arm its infantry with breechloading rifles, and how this might have affected the outcome of the battles of 1866 had it been accomplished in time. We've provided new pieces for a brigade armed with Werndl breechloaders (Ferdinand Poschacher von Poschach's "Iron Brigade" of I Corps) so you can try it out in the Jicin scenarios. As part of Austria's desperate attempts to re-arm, the Imperial-Royal Army acquired another new technology: the Gatling gun. The Viennese firm of Paget purchased a license and began production, but the guns did not reach the troops until years after the war had ended. Once again, we have new pieces to equip I and X Corps so you can mow down the Prussians at Jicin and Trautenau. We went the route of weirdness and fun for Chickamauga&Chattanooga. You get pieces for the Confederate helicopter, so you can bomb the Yankee invaders into oblivion. Or as the Northern forces of freedom, you can deploy Siamese elephants. —description from the publisher
Designers
Publishers
- Avalanche Press Ltd.
Questions and answers
Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns belongs to these categories: Wargame, Expansion for Base-game, and Post-Napoleonic. Its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Action Points, and Area-Impulse. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns are: Michael Bennighof. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns as an expansion. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to an existing base game and usually cannot be played on their own. Check the box or publisher description for the exact base game required, and make sure your edition of that game is compatible with this expansion.