Dave hosted a American Civil War game using the Black powder 2 rules and the Glory Hallelujah supplement. We played on a 6x4 table length ways and the scenario was 2 evenly matched sides encountering each other.
I commanded the Union forces and Ian the Confederates.
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| The table |
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| The key junction to control |
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| I deploy |
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| In column of march on the road to make a dash for the junction |
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| I deployed the artillery straight away to dominate one side of the table |
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| The Rebs approach |
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| Ian was concerned about poor command rolls so opted for march column to guarantee forward movement |
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| Slow going in the woods |
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| I won the race to the junction and busied myself creating a defence. Ian managed to get a battery in place early on to dominate the road which was painful. |
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| The red dice show units with casualties |
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| Moving to create an overlap on my left |
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| My battalion controlling the road benefited greatly from the musket and artillery fire from my right wing |
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| My right wing dominating the Confederate left disordering it with a large volume of fire |
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| My cavalry amazingly still holding on to the wood |
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| The Rebs pouring it on but receiving more in return |
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| I didn't reach the church, and I thought it too exposed, with good reasons as the Rebs get ready to take it. |
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| Reb centre suffering |
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| The Rebs make hard going of the fences |
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| Reb view of the junction |
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| The Reb left finally develops their attack |
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| My right wing moves to the right to cover the coming flanking attack |
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| My shooting is slowing the attack |
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| The Rebs spot the obvious gap between my wings and send their cavalry in to the gap to shot at from traversing fire that disorders them |
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| The End. The Union hold the junction and the Rebs although not broken are not far off a total collapse if they continue to attack. I really enjoyed this game and liked to added flavour the optional rules from Glory Hallelujah gave. |
