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Game Night Pick
A Most Fearful Sacrifice: Pipe Creek – Meade's Last Stand
Requires:A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg
Designed by Claude Whalen
Published by Flying Pig Games
Expansion
Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach
Country: USA
History: Battle of Gettysburg
Players
1-2
Play Time
57-357 min
Complexity
2.0 / 5
Rating
8.4
Year
2025
Community Snapshot
Medium-Light complexity
57–357 min
8.4 on BGG (22)
Text-heavy
Categories
A medium-light dice rolling game playable in 57–357 min, rated 8.4 on BGG.
How It Plays
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Special cards trigger events and drive the action forward — each card played can shift the whole narrative.
Dice Rolling
You roll dice to determine outcomes — there's always that thrilling moment of suspense before they land!
Hexagon Grid
The board uses hexagons instead of squares — this gives you more directions to move and think about.
Line of Sight
Your units can only interact with what they can directly see on the board — positioning matters a lot.
Variable Phase Order
The order of game phases can change each round depending on player choices — keeps everyone on their toes.
About This Game
A Most Fearful Sacrifice: Pipe Creek - Meade's Last Stand is an expansion for A Most Fearful Sacrifice: The Three Days of Gettysburg (AMFS), using a fresh method of simulating Civil War combat with the award-winning Black Swan system introduced in AMFS. Though only using a portion of the forces that fought at Gettysburg, Pipe Creek - Meade's Last Stand adds most of the cavalry that fought at the East Cavalry Field and includes some “What If” troops for the Army of Northern Virginia. Pipe Creek - Meade's Last Stand allows players to see what could have happened if Meade had left Gettysburg under a variety of scenarios.…
Source: BoardGameGeek