Union

Joni Nuutinen

About this game

Union is a strategy boardgame modelling American Civil War 1861-1865 at roughly corps level from the Northern point of view. From Joni Nuutinen: By a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011. Updated October 2026.


You are the commander of the Union armies during the most pivotal moment in American history - the Civil War. Your mission is clear: conquer the cities held by the rebellious Confederacy and reunite a nation torn apart.

As you survey the vast front line stretching from the eastern coastline to the wild west, you face with critical decisions at every turn. Do you prioritize raising new infantry corps to bolster your forces? Do you rely more heavily on the power of gunboats and artillery? Or do you take a more long-term strategic approach: constructing a comprehensive transportation network with railways, locomotives, and riverboats to optimize the logistics of your military machine to outpace and outmaneuver the opponent?

Though the road ahead may be long and treacherous, you have the strength, the will, and the determination to see this through. The fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and it is up to you to make the tough choices that will shape the course of history.


"My enemies say I am too cautious: I go slow and make sure of my ground. Let them call me what they please, so long as they call me victorious."
- General Ulysses S. Grant, 1864


FEATURES:

•• Each play-through is a fairly unique experience as the different choices pile up all the way from strategic and operation decisions to the outcomes of the individual key battles to drive the campaigns into new directions.

•• Strong strategic element as you decide what to produce and purchase. Is a bigger infantry army better than the smaller more-cavalry-based fast army with a broad railway network behind it switch it from battlefield to battlefield.

•• A comprehensive list of options and settings to alter the visual look and how the user interface reacts, including a switch to use NATO unit symbols for true grognards.



Joni Nuutinen has offered highly rated Android-only strategy board games since 2011, and even the first scenarios are still regularly updated. The games are based on the time-tested turn-based strategy gaming mechanics, grognards are familiar with from both the classic PC war games and physical tabletop board games. If you have advice on how to improve this board game series please use email, this way we can have a constructive back and forth chat without the limits of the store's comment system. Thanks for understanding!

Ratings and reviews

By far one of his greatest games, in my opinion. I cannot recommend this enough. However, I have noticed that the turn-by-turn map is broken.

But OF COURSE it's five stars: it's Joni Nuutinen's "Conflict Series"! With this game you get the whole Civil War on a strategic level. For one VERY small price, you never pay for anything again. Winning or losing depends only on your skill, in an extremely realistic setting. BUY IT NOW if you like real, historically accurate simulations!

Another great campaign! It's a long one (which I prefer). The amount of research that had to go into this game to accurately recreate such an historic event as vast and complex as the American Civil War is really impressive. For fans of Civil War history, you need to play this. You can "know" your Civil War history, but you truly need to experience it to tie all of that knowledge together and actually appreciate it. See if you can do better (or worse).

What’s new

+ Minimap: New setting to alter the size of the city dot
+ Minor patches