Dixie (board wargame)
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Dixie, subtitled "The Second War Between the States", is a board wargame designed by Redmond A. Simonsen and published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates an alternate world where the Union lost the first American Civil War, and there is a second war between the North and the South in the early part of the 20th century.
Components
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]
- 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.[3] 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.[2]