Gaines Mill: The Battles of the Seven Days, June 1862, Volume 1

About this board game

Gaines Mill: The Battles of the Seven Days, June 1862, Volume 1 is a Civil War Brigade Series game for 1–2 players, with a listed play time of 2400 minutes. The official description gives an estimated playing time of 4–16 hours, with medium complexity and high solitaire playability.

This volume recreates the fighting north of the Chickahominy River on June 26 and 27, 1862, including the action at Mechanicsville and the Battle of Gaines Mill. It is the first of three games covering the Seven Days’ fighting around Richmond.

The game operates at a brigade scale, with each turn representing 30 minutes and each hex covering 200 yards. Players use brigade units to recreate the engagements within the Civil War Brigade Series system.

• Three 22 × 34-inch full-color mapsheets
• One dual-sided countersheet with 280 half-inch counters
• A 32-page revised second-edition CWBS system rulebook
• A 32-page Seven Days: Gaines Mill-specific rulebook
• One players aid card and two six-sided dice

Gaines Mill can be connected with the other Seven Days games to recreate the entire campaign. The listed sequence identifies Gaines Mill as part one, Seven Pines as part two, and Malvern Hill: The Battles of the Seven Days, Volume III as part three.

Released in 1997, this title offers a focused treatment of two pivotal days through a detailed brigade-level presentation. Its support for solitaire play makes it suitable for solo study of the battles as well as play with an opponent.