Old BG Custom Scenarios

[Mr. Guberman]

For anyone interested:

I've had these laying around in my files for a long time.  Many years ago, myself and some other cats at American Civil War Cartography Office ACWCO (acwgc.org) were making new scenarios for the BG series.  When Tiller's ACW series came out virtually every one of the original BG scenarios were upgraded and replaced, including a bunch of the scenarios made by others (i.e. Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg etc...).

However, I've had this collection of scenarios that have not been revisited by anyone.  So rather than let them languish, forgotten, on my rig, I've decided to share them here.

They all work and are actually quite fun to explore, especially if one knows ACW history.  Some are mine and some are by others.  I've bundled them into 4 groups:  

BG Antietam Custom Scenarios (x24):

 3 Jun 61, Philippi, WV
13 Jul 61, Carrick's Ford, WV
24 Sep 61, Hanging Rock, WV
25 Sep 61, Kanawha Gap, WV
25 Sep 61, Romney, WV
3 Oct 61, Greenbriar River, WV
9 Oct 61, Santa Rosa Island, Fl
21 Oct 61, Ball's Bluff, Va
26 Oct 61, Romney, WV
13 Dec 61, Allegheny Summit, WV
10 Jan 62, Middle Creek, Ky
8 Feb 62, Roanoke Island, NC
14 Mar 62, New Bern, NC
16 Mar 62, Pound Gap, Ky
19 Apr 62, South Mills, NC
4 May 62, Ft Magruder, Va
5 May 62, Williamsburg, Va
10 May 62, Giles Courthouse, WV
17 May 62, Princeton, WV
23 May 62, Lewisburg, WV
24 May 62, Mechanicsville, Va
27 May 62, Hanover Courthouse, Va
5 Jun 62, Tranter's Creek, NC
9 Jun 64, Monacacy Junction, Md


BG Bull Run Custom Scenarios  x11:

1 Jun 61, Fairfax Courthouse, Va
10 Jun 61, Big Bethel, Va
19 Jun 61, Cole Camp, Mo
2 Jul 61, Falling Waters, WV
11 Jul 61, Monroe Station, Mo
10 Sep 61, Carnifex Ferry, WV
17 Sep 61, Blue Mills Landing, Mo
20 Dec 61, Dranesville, Va
24 May 62, Middletown-Newtown, Va
6 Jun 62, Harrisonburg, Va
8 Sep 63, Sabine Pass, La


BG Chickamauga Custom Scenarios x10:

11 Jun 61, Rich Mountain, WV
19 Nov 61, Round Mountain, IndTer
9 Dec 61, Chusto-Talasha, IndTer
17 Dec 61, Rowlett's Station, Ky
26 Dec 61, Chustenalah, IndTer
16 Apr 62, Whitemarsh, Ga
31 May 62, Neosho, Mo
17 Jul 63, Honey Springs, IndTer
8 May 64, Buzzard Roost, Ga
9 May 64, Resaca, Ga


BG Shiloh Custom Scenarios x17:

17 Jul 61, Scarrytown, WV
5 Aug 61, Athens, Mo
2 Sep 61, Dry Wood Creek, Mo
19 Sep 61, Barboursville, Ky
13 Oct 61, Wet Glaze, Mo
16 Oct 61, Bolivar Heights, WV
21 Oct 61, Camp Wildcat, Ky
25 Oct 61, 1st Springfield, Mo
18 Dec 61, Milford, Mo
28 Dec 61, Mt. Zion Church, Mo
1 Jan 62, Port Royal Ferry, SC
11 Mar 62, Paris, Tn
13 Mar 62, Spring River, Ak
26 Mar 62, Apache Canyon, NM
15 Apr 62, Peralta, NM
7 May 62, Eltham's Landing, Va
9 May 62, Farmington, Ms


I'm going to load them into the scenario data base bundled as is.

One needs to know the idiosyncracies of adding new scenarios to BG modules.  I find that a JSGME in each module works wonders.  I have not assigned them to any of the stock scenario acronyms (i.e AN, HN...etc).  I've got mine and anyone who wants can make their own.

Enjoy

Cheers and Prost

Gubi

[krmiller]

I have a lot of these BG scenarios on my backup.

Not sure if you are aware of this but if you have the zipfile for the BG editor for the Talonsoft ACW BG games you can place it in the main folder for each game in the Matrix version and it will open and allow you to edit scenarios.  However you have to have the original disk for that game to open it.  Not sure if the Matrix disc would work as I bought the download version.

As an old BG user I know the BG-START will only display the stock scenarios.  Never used JSGME but if you navigate to the individual game folder and start the game exe (ex - Matrix Games\John Tiller's Battleground Civil War\Gettysburg\bgg) you can then choose the scenario folder and then the scenario.