Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand and had their pack train with ammunition with them." There are many other board games of the same subject, such as Waddingtons' "Battle of the Little Big Horn". Gygax also recalls " Two other small publishers likewise introduced their own like games at Origins that year, as it was the 100th anniversary of the battle. Of course, all three companies suffered sales-wise, as interested gamers were divided." Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand is a wargame published by TSR in 1976. Gary Gygax designed "Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand", a war game simulating
Last stand due to the pull on popular imagination. Historian Nathaniel Philbrick argues: During World War I, the expression to fight "with one's back to the wall" became a widely-known way to refer to making a last stand. The London "Times" reported on April 13, 1918 that General Douglas Haig ordered British troops that "Every position must be held to the last man...With our backs to the wall...each one of us must fight on to the end". Last stand A last stand is a military situation in which a body of troops holds a defensive position in the face of overwhelming odds.