Game of the Week - May 26 - Jun 1

This week we return to the 19th century and the American Civil War with Campaign Corinth. This title will be on sale for 25% off normal pricing now through Sunday June 1st.

In the late summer of 1862, Major Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith launched their joint invasion of Kentucky with high hopes of success. With the campaign occurring at around the same time as Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland, these were heady days for the Confederacy. Two Confederate forces were left behind to guard important points in Mississippi. The larger force, Major General Sterling Price’s Army of the West, was based at Baldwyn and Saltillo in Mississippi and numbered about 14,000 men. The Army of the West was largely made up of veteran soldiers from the Trans-Mississippi region (several regiments were from Mississippi as well). Many were veterans of Pea Ridge and the earlier struggles for control of Missouri and Arkansas. The other large Confederate force in the state was commanded by Major General Earl Van Dorn with headquarters in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Van Dorn could put 7,000 soldiers in the field as an offensive force.

Without leaving explicit instructions outlining a command arrangement between the generals in Mississippi, Bragg ordered the Confederate forces in Mississippi to cooperate with his army and to guard its vast western flank. If all went extraordinarily well, perhaps the Mississippi army could even meet Bragg at the Ohio River. Due to the command confusion, Price and Van Dorn both considered themselves independent commanders, each calling incessantly for the other to cooperate.

While Van Dorn organized his own strike force, Price was becoming increasingly frustrated. Bragg ordered Price north to keep Union forces from further reinforcing Major General Don Carlos Buell’s now burgeoning Army of the Ohio. Though ordered to do so, Price felt he could hardly comply with such orders with the small force available to him. He pleaded with Van Dorn to effect a combination of forces, but the independent-minded Van Dorn was evasive. Feeling that he must follow Bragg’s orders with or without Van Dorn’s cooperation, General Price launched his 14,000 man Army of the West at the isolated Union outpost of Iuka, Mississippi.

Opposing the Confederate forces in Mississippi was Major General Ulysses S. Grant's newly constituted Army of West Tennessee. Grant's army was spread all over West Tennessee and northern Mississippi guarding the region's crucial railroad network. Major troop concentrations were located at Memphis, Bolivar, and Jackson in Tennessee along with Corinth, Rienzi and Iuka in Mississippi. The Union forces nearest to Price comprised the Army of the Mississippi under Major General William Starke Rosecrans. The brigade of Colonel Robert Murphy garrisoned Iuka and guarded its stockpile of supplies and the important railroad bridge over Bear Creek to the east.

To get a bit more detail about the content in Campaign Corinth you can check out the Design Notes. And the Getting Started tutorial document.

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This title includes 422 stand-alone and Campaign scenarios! It should be noted however that 50% of the scenarios are "Weather" variants, so the same base scenario just with historic weather effects added in.