Two weeks ago the group came together for a first game using Guns at
Gettysburg rules by David Brown. As you have noticed on the number of
ACW posts on this blog our club theme this year is ACW. Our aim is to
have about five infantry brigades a side ready for our new years game
early January. Against all odds we are ahead of planning and in the
meantime we play some games to stay inspired. I'm surprised the group
keeps his focus so long and i think
our approach to start gaming Terrible Sharp Sword and grow to a larger scale over time really worked well.
For
our regiment based games we picked Guns at Gettysburg. Main reason is
we like General de Brigade and do not want to bring in yet another
system. Could have gone for the Elephant rules by TFL since we are using
Lardie rules a lot and we might do a test drive with those as well to see if we like them. But so far, we like GaG.
The game itself was good fun. One player unfortunately could not make it so we had to adjust the scenario as the Union now missed five regiments. This was also a good and now legal opportunity for Marc 'Mudwall' to hold on to his tradition of finding cover asap as seen in our previous games. This time however, the fences did not save him as the Rebels ferociously charged and routed the 16th Michigan from behind their cover (I must say the double six helped). We deployed a bit too far apart but it also meant we could see how movement and formation worked.
Anyway, not a lot of time today so some pictures of the game...
Complete gallery of the day on
photobucket and Rob Pohlman created a gallery with some great shots of his Rebs
here
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| Overview after a couple of turns moving |
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| Rebs moving in 1 |
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| Battle for the bridge. Due to quick and decisive movement the Confederates got there first. No charges unfortunately, they faltered when they got the attack order |
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| The first wave is getting in |
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| with success |
More thought on the rules and it's mechanics follow after we played one or two more games. Next few weeks a couple of new regiments arrive on the blog and I need to sort out some old pictures to post variation...
I love it when a plan comes together.
ReplyDeleteGreat layout and figures fellow reject.
ReplyDeleteThx! and you are right Suchet, I should have mentioned we predicted all their moves and deployment and got most of the objectives by cunning strategy:-)
ReplyDeleteGreat looking game!
ReplyDeleteGreat looking game
ReplyDeleteI think the charm of the ACW to `grab and keep focus` is the fact both sides where actually identical in type of troop and weapons, more so then other historic (and fantasy) wars.
No matter what unit or regiment you field, it tends to be possible to swing either way
Great looking game Mike!! and beautiful figures as well!
ReplyDeleteGreate looking game and realy nice pictures !
ReplyDeleteBest regards Dalauppror
Looks a damn fine game and now thinking ACW for Salute?
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you survived your brush with Postie's Rejects!;-)
ReplyDeleteLovely looking table and figures. Sounds like a great game, too.
Great looking table! That's the rules we decided at our club to use as well for our 28mm ACW. However, it will be awhile before we can get some games in.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Fantastic looking game! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThose are some great layouts,Mike great photography
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. Well appreciated.
ReplyDelete@Tomsche Interesting point and you are right. I did not think of it that way. What I also like (simplified and among others) is it's only two sides and you don't have the zillion uniforms for every month of the Nap period while there is enough variation available to field interesting armies.
@Paul You are just like all of us :-) ACW would make a great headstart though and gives us an opportunity to paint more of the 'extra's', the non fighting vignettes that can make a game really stand out.
Beautiful set up and wonderful looking figures there Mike.
ReplyDeleteThe minis and the layout all look incredible. A very impressive (and fun) looking game.
ReplyDeleteWonderful work indeed, sorry a bit late on parade but these look tremendous.
ReplyDeleteLovely looking game and good on your group for 'keeping the faith' and getting this amount of stuff completed - very impressive.
ReplyDeleteCurt