Description

"Red Shirts" is a military wargame simulation of the Italian Campaign of 1860.
In 1859 the kingdom of Sardinia (and France) had acquired Lombardy and the Emilian Ducats, starting the process of national unification.
On 11th and 12th March 1860 the inhabitants of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna (Legations) voted to annex it to the Kingdom of Sardinia, accepted by Vittorio Emanuele. This unitary movement developed between '59 and '60 in northern Italy and culminating in the annexations, had strengthened the hopes of many Italian patriots, who dreamed of national independence.

In a two-player game, "Red Shirts" simulates the final attempt to reunite the entire Italian territory with a player (Sardinia + Garibaldi) against a player from the Coalition (Two Sicilies and Vatican State/Austria). In a four-players game each will try to make their own faction prevail: Sardinia, Garibaldi, Vatican State and Two Sicilies.
Each faction uses its forces or abilities to influence areas on the map, has its own victory goal, different from the others.

On a turn, players choose an action, one at a time, that generates a reaction for all the other players.
Both actions and reactions are used to obtain victory points in order to win the game.
Every game turn the initiative order is recalculate.
Every faction has a endgame condition that stops the play and the winner is elected.