Gringo! is easily the most unusual, and colorful, game in the entire quarter century of the system. Those of you used to the woods and creeks of the ACW will marvel at the incredible variety of terrain for the Gringo! battles, from the rough mountains of Cerro Gordo, to the moon-like landscape of Buena Vista, to the remarkably detailed city of Monterey, all producing a departure from old series battles.

The GBACW system for Gringo! will be pretty much as you have with the v.4.3 of Red Badge of Courage. However, with the Mexican Army being rather more Napoleonic than anything else, and the forces being much smaller, the command rules have been greatly reduced in terms of breadth and complexity. And what a colorful (often literally!) lot these leaders are, from the stolid, bayonet-oriented Zachary Taylor through the comic-opera cast of characters that riddled the Mexican Army, to the wily Santa Anna.

Best of all, though, are the great gamers' battles in Gringo!. They run the gamut from mountain assaults to street-fighting, all allowing the gamer to see some of the differences between ACW-era tactics and those of the Napoleonic era. The battles included are: