This scenario was taken from BFF Great Western Battles Scenario Book. It is the later part of the Battle of Atlanta July 22nd, 1864.
For the purist I apologise for the absence of the railway. I have put it all away pending laying of new track in the future.
Our game started with the Rebels off board and the Union Troops arrayed behind the fortified positions. As the Rebels were attacking, they held the initiative for the entire game.
Our Union players were Roger on their left flank and Mike on the right.
For the Rebels, Paul on there right flank and Bob on the left.
The initial moves saw the Rebels advance all along the front and a fair amount of counter battery fire which saw guns on both sides silenced and damaged. As the advance continued the Rebels held back on the left but advanced rapidly through the woods on the right. This gave the impression that they had committed all their forces. In response to this the Union commanders decided to pull their units from behind the second line of defences to reinforce their left.
On spotting the redeployment of Union forces the Rebels committed the rest of their units and pushed forward on the left. On turn three, when the Union reserves arrived, they moved to the right to cover the Rebel advance.
The Union centre was held in position by threatening Rebel units just out of musket range. Meanwhile on the Union left the Rebels burst out the woods to attack the prepared positions. After fierce combat the union units were pushed back, the Rebels moved to the fieldworks, held position, and brought up their only mobile field piece. They now had a foothold on the Union left.
With the Union left held, the Rebels concentrated on the Union right moving up in force and readying to charge the just deploying Union reserves. The Rebel charges went in throwing good dice, a 10 and having lots of plusses, a score of fourteen. The Rebel commander was elated and then the Union leader also threw a 10, not the victory the Rebels were expecting.
On the Rebel right they now arrayed massive fire power at a very silly range and throwing a 10, blew away a complete Union unit. On both flanks the pressure from the Rebels was telling, inflicting heavy casualties and the Union forces reached the magic 30 stands loss. 1 victory point to the rebels.
Union forces were now forced to pull back to the second line of defences, but it was too late. Rebel pressure on both flanks told and the game was called with an overwhelming Rebel victory.
As an umpire this was an easy game to adjudicate as only one player had never used the rules. The other players helped, and I didn’t really have to make any decisions.
My thanks to the guys for making my life easy.
For those who may be interested.
Rule Set – Brigade Fire and Fury Version 2.
ACW troops – AB and Blue Moon figures and I would like to thank Nick S and Mr Steve who painted my figures for me.
Trees were from Buffers near Axminster, Devon, and Amazon.
Roads and Rivers – Search Fat Frank on EBay.
Snake Fences – also on EBay. Search 15mm snake fence.
Walls – I’m pretty sure they came from Pendraken and came ready painted but I can’t remember the link.
Hills – Not seen but were under the cloth were from totalsystemscenic.com.
Battle Cloth – tinywargames.co.uk
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