"1862, A Dark Year for my Confederates" Topic

Just finished another game in 1862 as part of my Longstreet Campaign with the NJMGS. Apparently, this was just not my "year." Perhaps 1863 will turn things around.

1862: A Dark Year (Longstreet AAR)

You despise cavalry? Try dismounting them behind a fence.
I presume that's an option with Longstreet – only read the Lite rules so far.

And sacrifice a small animal to the dice gods. I find that helpful.

It would have to be a solid wall for an advantage against fire. Fences are only an advantage against hand-to-hand combat. I probably should have placed more walls in the terrain laying phase but hindsight is 20/20. He put woods on my flanks which he was hoping to dismount his cavalry in and skirmish fire from. I anticipated that and sent 2 cav to my right and one cav plus my zouaves to my left. With that, he just used his cav as a distraction while his artillery ate me up.

worst.battlefield.ever.

The scenario was just some cornfields in the center. My opponent placed 2 forests. I placed a few zones forbidding terrain and a wall. In retrospect, not the best decision on my part but I was already trying to defend an objective that left me at a disadvantage because of the fields. It might be wiser for anyone playing this scenario on the defense to just counter-attack.

Has to be said that the terrain for 'from the book' scenarios in Longstreet does not encourage players to feats of wild artistic creation.

Its kind of the element from the rules that if you have a Brigade on Brigade battle, the area of Gods Creation you fight over is not as elaborate as a larger action where more possible variation could occur.

I find it somewhat of an over generalisation.

You've certainly been fortunate with the reinforcements. We've just finished 1862 and I've only got four infantry regiments and one of cavalry. And how have you managed to amass seven guns? I thought that the limit was six in 1862?

I think you misread my Force Roster deephorse.

I had 6 guns in 1862 and going into 1863 I have 5.

Hi PH. Your roster "after the first defeat in 1862" clearly has 7 guns. 2 batteries of 2 and one of 3.

Anyway, it's interesting to see the variation in brigades produced by the post battle procedure. Entering 1863 you have a much better brigade than I have. I think this will make for plenty of replay value with the campaign. Little chance of any two campaigns generating the same brigade make up.