There is an option on the main menu where the player can turn off in-game missions and battles to make it purely like a board game. If two antagonistic armies clash, it will result in a battle. Moving their army units, the player may expand westwards into unoccupied territory. Also, railways generate money which in turn generates soldiers. By turning on an option at the main menu the player controlling the state of North Carolina will get periodic reinforcements by ship. Otherwise, capturing a state involves simple movement, unless there is another army 'on' the state.

In each state which 'owns' a railway station, there is a fort, the capture of which leads to the player overtaking the whole state. Taking an extremely simplified board interface, the game features a strategic map of the USA separated into states and territories, where army units are moved around. In addition, the game is filled with numerous comical situations and gags. For example, it features parodies of national anthems, which are accessible when the player selects one of the different languages supported by the game: (English, French, Spanish, German or Italian).

North & South contains a lot of humorous elements. Each year has a different array of armies and states that each side starts with. The player may choose to start the game year from 1861 (the year the Civil War erupted) to 1864. The player basically acts out the Civil War, choosing to play as either the North or the South. North & South is an offshoot of the Belgian comic series Les Tuniques Bleues (by Raoul Cauvin and Louis Salverius/Willy Lambillotte, from Dupuis) which is based on the American Civil War. It was developed and published by Infogrames. North & South is a combined strategy and action game released in 1989 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST and ported later for NES, Amstrad CPC, MSX, DOS and ZX Spectrum. Stéphane Baudet, Vincent Belliard, Alain Nakache, Didier Chanfray. This game can be played also in a version for NES.

If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS.

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