"Across a Deadly Field (ADF) Antietam at dawn" Topic
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| Rev Zoom | 25 Aug 2014 12:22 p.m. PST |
Our wargaming group, the North Phoenix Irregulars, sat down our first collective ACW game using John Hill's new set of rules Across a Deadly Field. John Hill designed the rules for Corps level battles using regiments as the maneuver groups (1" = 100 yards, 1 figure = 60 men). We prefer to game at the Johhny Reb III scale of 1"= about 45-50 yards and 1 figure = 30 men. John Hill provided some thoughts on this on the Cigar Box web site, suggesting using the Cavalry fire table and keeping the original 15mm movement rates. We decided to go with his earlier suggestion of using the 25/28mm table with our 15mm figures. The battle, Hooker and Meade's dawn attack on the northern flank at Sharpsburg (known to us Union boys as the battle of Antietam) was chosen because the combat and results are well documented. If something out of live (outside normal probability) took place, it would be pretty obvious. The battle was set up on a new battle map I designed and printed on suede cloth (5feet X 6 feet) covering the Sunken Road to above the North Woods and from Nicodemus Hill east almost to the Antietam in highly detailed 1"=45 yards. I'll get back to the battle map later as I don't want to hijack my own topic. There were four of us playing, 2 Union and 2 Rebel. I consolidated some of the troops and ended up with Hooker having 2 Brigades, Meade 1, Hays a Brigade of Louisiana boys and I had Douglass with a Georgia Brigade. Union forces had 4 full batterys, mainly Napoleons while the Confederates had 4 lesser strength (3 of the 4 with 2 sections) mixed gun batterys.
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79thPA  | 25 Aug 2014 12:51 p.m. PST |
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 Flashman14 | 25 Aug 2014 1:24 p.m. PST |
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| Rev Zoom | 25 Aug 2014 2:05 p.m. PST |
Well that came a cropper. I hit a wrong key at the base of my keyboard and it whisked me out. OK, let's try again. |
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