Local man designs historical board games

Players of Richard Berg’s “Terrible Swift Sword,” an historical board game on the Battle of Gettysburg, can, and often do, turn the tide in favor of the Confederacy, rewriting history at whim.

“I would say the South wins the battle with about 60 percent of the people who play it,” says Berg, a Charleston-based designer of historical simulations. “The Confederate player knows what Robert E. Lee didn’t. And that’s a tremendous advantage on the first day of Gettysburg. The pleasure is in ‘Let’s see what happens if I do this, or don’t do this.’”

Would you prefer that Roman general Scipio Africanus did not defeat his Carthaginian nemesis, Hannibal, at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC? Or that Poland deflected the Blitz in World War II? Find the appropriate game and make it so.

You’ll find a kindred spirit in Berg.

Read more about him in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier.