I was in charge of the 3rd Division and represented General John Bell Hood, considered quite a good Confederate general (unfortunately I'm not), I had 5 brigades of Alabama infantry and 3 batteries of artillery (1st through 5th and a mixture of crack and veteran in 1862).
I'll start by saying I was tired, a little cranky and still had to go to work that night, what happened next was a cluster feck of bad tactics, bad luck and bad attitude with some lively banter as both sides bitched and slagged each other off, the Confederates lost the game at the beginning and continued on the same vein for the rest of the fecking game....
It was a well thought out and balanced game, a good looking game, fecked up by the Confederate players with a little help from the fecking Union players and those fucking dice gods, I hardly moved the whole game (trying to secure two other players flanks (one who thought he was fecking Patton and other who taught he was having a fecking picnic on a hill!).
Me and Ray had to leave early to go to work and I thought I would be able to get away before hearing the result but no luck as the game ended before we had to go and I had enough time to hear the result and fecking disaster!
Eye candy to follow.......
My brave boys.......
My view for a lot of the game.......again!
Contractual Postie shot and contractual blog whore shot!
Along the confederate line.......
Jeb Stuart on my right flank.......
The union rush forward to the lovely hills, the cliff parts were impassable....
I move forward in column with the railway tracks and small hills dividing my position.....
The Union were concentrating in the middle....
The confederates rush to meet them.......
Too late and the meat grinder is set in motion.....
Me!
The Union forces on their left flank, nice position and some of their best troops....
Nice position!!!
A couple of columns got hit in these formations.....
Jeb Stuart on the hill.......
The centre and the disaster......
Things were a little chaotic.....
There were quite a few withering fire and swept from the field results for the union here.....
The view from the right edge of the hill......
Yellow markers represent worn units......
I went a little hot air balloon here......
Red markers represent spent forces......
My artillery after several rounds of counter battery fire, union artillery is far better than confederate artillery.....
Carnage......
...more.....
....more of it......
The end is nigh....
The Alabama boys show their metal and kick union ass.....
Longstreet surveys the end of the battle....
As I said a good scenario and well thought out game but not for everyone and here's the question....
....do you play for fun and dice rolling or try to play tactically but less fun, less movement and less dice rolling?
I know we try for a fine balance in wargaming but can you get that all the time, maybe I was just a bit cranky but we give up a lot of time for our wargaming addiction!