Are BG Civil war scenarios shorter/smaller?

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coastie_slith
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Are BG Civil war scenarios shorter/smaller?

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I bought Napoleonic Wars and I like the game style and the mechanics. What I find though is that the larger battles, Waterloo & Borodino, are just overwhelming. Instead I've played all the Quatre Bras variants a bunch of times and really like that level of complexity. Even something like Ligny, although it's short, still has a ton of units to move & shoot every turn.

Does Civil War have more in the way of the smaller scenarios? I don't mind ones that are a small segment of a larger battle (like in Waterloo & NIR) but I do prefer something that is a self-contained battle like Quatre Bras.
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The Civil War Battles offer a lot of battles that are more manageable than Waterloo and especially Borodino. I found even Gettysburg to be less daunting...
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In addition, many of the games (can't remember if all of them) have additional battles; some lead up to the main battle and some completely unrelated such as Wilson Creek.
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Thanks for the replies, I'll probably pick it up then. It'll be neat to use different armies as well.
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