Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a two-player game set during the events leading to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War. One player takes the Unionist side and works to preserve the Union; the other plays as the Secessionist and follows the path to dissolve it. The game recreates this crisis through three rounds of play, ending in a Final Crisis confrontation.

Political control

Using an area-control system, players place, move and remove political capital. Its location determines who controls each of four crisis dimensions: Political, Secession, Public Opinion and Armaments. The game uses a card-driven system designed by Mark Herman.

Historical setting

Fort Sumter depicts the actual events of the crisis. Voice-over and audio recreate the sound of the era.

Online play

The game supports asynchronous online play for two players.