Return to ACW

Chris re-joined us after a few weeks off  so we decided a nice little ACW game was in order.

I had the Federals, 2 Brigades of 4 and 3 regiments supported by a  3 gun Battery.

Chris has the Rebs with 3 brigades each of 3 regiments supported by a 2 gun battery

Chris starts with a brigade left of centre facing my Brigade of 4 regiments, His next brigade comes on left of centre and heads for the hill being occupied by my second brigade.

I manage to get my artillery into the centre of the line with a couple of casualties and open up with 9 firing dice on the lead regiment of the third brigades of rebs coming straight up the middle at it.

My veteran Zouaves pass through the trained line in front of them and open fire into the front of the advancing brigade whilst two more regiments start to advance to envelope their left flank.

As the next set of Rebs advance out of the woods they are hit by another volley and disordered.

Meanwhile the centre brigade has lined out in front of the guns and foot and with a further volley is broken forcing a morale check with everything within 12 inches.

The next battalion in line lines out ready to charge the guns. My artillery fire is effective but they pass their morale.

The Brigadier marches to the front to lead his men in person.

With a rebel yell the Rebs charge recklessly at the guns and despite heroic resistance the gun crew are broken.

The charging unit has lost another base and is disordered so my flanking trained unit fires with half its strength inflicting more casualties.

On my left the Rebel veteran brigade closes with my trained and green troops, despite some effective firing they are closing fast and charge my extreme left hand unit which is forced to retire..

The Rebs are now formed up on my flank but despite the precarious situation I still outnumber them here so hopeful of holding them.

In the centre I get another volley into the Regiment that broke my guns and they eventually break.

We then hit the last regiment of the centre brigade lined out and leave them disordered by fire.

A further volley from my right hand three regiments decimates the two remaining Reb regiments on their left and they break, the remaining centre regiment is forced to test and also breaks.

With only their right hand veteran brigade intact to face my 7 regiments Chris concedes and we pack up.

Another fun game, bit smaller meaning we could get a result to the game and still paly through the rules.

I think these are pretty much done now. Only the Cavalry remain to eb tested once Steve has painted  a few.

Thanks for stopping by.