Publication history īattle Cry was published as a cooperative effort between Milton Bradley and American Heritage to mark the 100th anniversary of the American Civil War. The first side to eliminate all enemy pieces is the winner. All units in the defending column are eliminated, and the rear-most unit in the attacker's column is moved to the front of the attacker's column. In order to begin combat, the attacker's column must have numerical superiority, calculated as 2 points for each infantry and artillery unit, and 1 point for cavalry units. The attacker lines up a column of pieces either horizontally or vertically to attack an enemy column.
Units at a railway station can each use 1 movement to immediately move to the next station. Any unit reaching a mountain square must stop for the rest of the turn. Infantry moves one square per dice pip, cavalry moves two squares per pip. The active player rolls two 6-sided dice the resultant total can be allocated as movement to any units. square-grid map is of the Eastern United States at the time of the American Civil War.Įach player begins with 22 color-coded counters (10 infantry, 10 cavalry and 2 artillery), which are set up on the map on specified starting locations.There are also special rules for a 4-player game. For other similarly named board games and video games, see Battle Cry (disambiguation).īattle-Cry is a combat board game set in the American Civil War that was published by the Milton Bradley Company in 1961 as part of their popular American Heritage series.īattle-Cry is a two-player board game between units representing the Union and Confederate armies.
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