"Hooker's Attack-Antietam" Topic

The DFW Irregulars put on a Labor Day Bash with a great old Fire and Fury scenario from the Eastern Battles book. Our collections are exclusively 25/28mm. We modified the F&F rules to fit the figures. The game is being played on a 12x6 table on classic 3D terrain (no wedding cake hills or felt)originally constructed by a Baroque art restorer for the Kimbrell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. We're playing in my gaming house 32x24.

We are playing with 276 infantry stands (based 4-6 figs per stand). Had a great fajita burn during the game. Here are several links if you are interested in taking a look at the game so far. DFW historical gamers are ALWAYS welcome at the DFW Irregulars! You outa' towners are ALWAYS welcome too!
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Steve Miller
DFW Irregulars

Oh, I thought this was a FOX special. When Hookers attack…

If it had been a FOX special the hookers would have been fair…and definitely balanced! :)

Why would they attack Antietam.

Washington DC I could understand, since they are getting competition from elected officials (prostitution), but Antietam?

On a more serious note. Great snaps and great looking terrain. Looks to have been loads of fun.

Nice terrain, nice figures, nice wargame room, and outstanding impersonation of a dead dog.

I noticed a lot of the original Dave Alsop Old Glory figures, some Connoisseurs and Dixons among others. Nice to see them again.

Totally agree – great game – I especially liked the Confederate artilleryman with the green hat, straining hard to align that gun

thanks Frederick. The green hat is a direct result of painting 200+ ACW and running out of color ideas. Green just fit that fig! :)

*ahem*….That would be "Sharpsburg" suh…

and by the way, nice pics!

Great looking game!! Thanks for sharing!

Magnificent.

corrugated cardboard bases!! whatever next from our friends across the water. Whatever happened in your local difficulties over there by the way? who won? Antietam or Sharpsburg?

Yeah…I didn't notice one of the guys built "fast sabot bases" until I started working up the pics. They are not mine. I don't do that. Difficulties over where? Think you're a little confused good buddy. A or Sharps? Who cares! It's the game, fajita burn and lots of beer that makes our games fun and has done so over 20+ years!

Good looking game

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"difficulties" = c.1861-65 I believe ;-)

I think we got it handled. :)

We're grinding the battle out to the bitter end today (Saturday). More pics and drivel from me later….

Great figures and pictures.
No Corn????

Nope…I haven't found a suitable "corn field for my terrain system. I don't do felt, carpet, door rug or crap like that on my terrain collection (over 200 2x2 boards). Any other suggestions other than build a custom 2x2?

I've seen only a handful of games that try to tackle cornfields, and they all lack something. The little squares with what look like Christmas tree branches with the tops dabbed with yellow paint look okay, but moving a unit through them doesn't work very well, and looks odd.

And if you've ever happened to march shoulder-to-shoulder in two ranks through a mature cornfield (e.g., you were at the 135th Antietam reeneactment event), you know that the result is a bunch of the plants laying horizontal (for the most part) in just one pass. It also slows you down more than you might think, but that's another thread.

What is needed is really a mutli-part, movable system which allows you have it as a LOS-blocking terrain piece which can be transitioned to a mostly flattened field that you can see and move units through more easily after it is first passed through.

Along those lines, I experimented with making corn-rows using multiple wooden half-round dowel cut around a foot long as a base for each row. In retrospect, it was an imperfect solution, as tt made the corn adjustable in one direction, but not the other. If I were to do it again, I'd cut each row into shorter, maybe 3-4 inch sections, and mount the "corn stalks" much closer together, basically touching, to form a denser screen than I did the first time.

Here's a picture of a game I ran showing (though out of focus) the result of that first attempt.

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Interesting concept. I'm going to have to build several purpose built farm terrain squares for my terrain collection. I'm thinking the "fields" will be plowed or rough ground with suitable fencing. I'd sure like to see a terrain vendor attempt to tackle this too. I won't use the rubber terrain junk on my collection so it's gonna' have to be custom made.

Any pearls would be appreciated.

Steve, as you're doing purpose built terrain boards, maybe a variation on Firstvartys idea: holes in the terrain board and green-and-yellow pipe cleaners or whatever else can be made to look line corn stuck in the holes, then just pull them out and lay them flat as troops move through?

"Hooker Attack Antietam." That is what I read while just glancing through the titles of the threads in this section. And, of course, the first thing that went through my mind was that working class girls descended en masse to a re-enactment at Antietam!