From HFDG:
A Bold Fight details the decisive battle of Mobile Bay fought on August 5th, 1864. Following the capture of New Orleans by the Union the port of Mobile Bay was the largest and most important for the Confederacy in the Gulf of Mexico. Blockade runners brought badly needed supplies for the rebel nation, and the city’s industry provided munitions, cannon, clothing and other essential war materials for the Confederacy’s armies. Admiral Farragut had wanted to capture the port earlier, but the campaign along the Mississippi and Red Rivers diverted Federal attention. With the fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 attention once more turned to this port.
The port’s defenses were based upon its fortifications, of which Fort Morgan was the key. Forts Gaines and Powell supplemented the defense. Also used by the Confederates was an extensive field of underwater mines, also called torpedoes, that guarded the entrance that the defenders had been narrowed by erecting numerous wooden pilings. To further strengthen the formidable defensive works the Confederates had three wooden gunboats and the powerful ironclad Tennessee.
To wrest away control of the rebel port Admiral Farragut assembled a massive fleet of heavily armed steam warships gunboats and four new turret ironclads. All of these vessels were armed with some of the most powerful cannon ever produced, and manned by sailors that so far in the war had only known victory. The battle to take control of Mobile would not be an easy one.
One of the most violent and decisive naval battles of the American Civil War has players use a standard deck of cards to activate their warships and fortress batteries to resolve combat such as gunnery, ramming and torpedo/mines. Play is very interactive and intense, but without any of the tedious record keeping of many naval games. A Bold Fight also plays well solitaire.
A Bold Fight retails for $11.95.
