Wargame Construction Set 3: Age of Rifles 1846 - 1905 
(1996 SSI)


A detailed examination of tactical warfare from the 
Mexican War (1846) to the Russo-Japanese War (1905), 
this allowed the gamer to "dervishly" beat up on 
Fuzzy-Wuzzies to his heart's content. With a scenario 
editor that was relatively easy to use, a plethora of 
scenarios have become available over the Internet covering 
the obscure and not-so-obscure battles of the 19th Century. 
Remember, a repeating rifle generally beats a bow and arrow, 
unless one grows too ambitious ... My personal feeling is 
that the scenarios were in fact too generic, and I was never 
able to discern in game terms the basic advantage of the 
needle-gun in the Franco-Prussian War or why certain rifle 
advances occurred in certain times. But if the history was 
a little weak, the game value was pretty strong.