Campaign! Game

Campaign The American Go Game was made by Saalfield Artcraft in '61. Evidently it was made for the popular ACW Centennial because the company didn't even make board games like Milton Bradley, Parker Bros., etc. Their customer base was mainly preschool and early elementary kids. They mainly made books like Golden Books, coloring books, paper dolls, etc. The games they made were mostly party games, you might have evenplayed Pin The Tail on the Donkey with one of their products. Evidently they were the "Cadillac" of the kiddie party games. There artists excelled in the rosy cheeked kids and "Disneylike" fairy tale characters.
This game is bizarre, it has "kiddie" art(pretty cool too) with "rosy cheeked" soldiers and the complexity of the Japanese Game "Go". There's no age recommendation but I don't know if a 8 yo could play. It's more complicated than "Battle Cry", or "1863" which were MB ACW games at the same time. I think they just wanted to get in on the ACW Centennial gravy train. They just painted some kiddie art on a game board and gave it the rules of "Go". The artwork is pretty nice. It was sealed but the wrapper was in pretty bad shape.