Hello Again! I recently played an ACW game around a friends. It was an impromptu game with a very basic scenario.
As you can see the Union camp was at one corner of the table with a road running alongside. The Confederates entered the table, as per a chance dice roll, at the opposite end of the table. The Union forces were also reinforced at their corner of the table by the same dice rolls.
As you can see the Union regiment soon started to assemble from their rest and form up. The tents are scratch built and a tutorial on home to make them will be in an issue of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy soon.
The Confederate Hampton's Legion gradually made its way across the board towards the sleepy Union troops.
The Confederates soon reached the camp and I, (the Union commander), was hoping to have better dice rolls for reinforcements. I did not and had to use another unit of infantry and cavalry to stem the Confederate tide, (Adrian had been somewhat more fortunate!). The Union had to be aggressive to make space for any troops that would eventually arrive. This led to a seesaw situation where Confederate units in open order were forced back by formed Union troops who then presented a better denser target for the enemy as they became more vulnerable from the flanks. Here the Confederates are pushing in from the top of the picture as well as the left.
At last the artillery arrived to 'save the day' but far too late. I had already begun to feel this was and ACW version of Isandwhalana! I tried to make more space in the camp to manoeuvre but the dice rolls for the melee results were very close but I had to pull back, actually following what was already running away.
Here you can see the more open area of the camp after a lot of my troops decided to leave the immediate vicinity.
The game overall was very too and fro for much of the time with things not going all one way or the other until getting towards the end of the game that things turned against the Union.
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