"Battle for Gloucester Point, Va. @ Cold Wars" Topic
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| SFC Retired | 25 Feb 2015 7:10 a.m. PST |
I will be GMing a Black Powder AWI game based on the "skirmish" Battle for Gloucester Point, Va. Oct 3rd 1781. Saturday at 11am Open for 6 players… In early October 1781, Crown troops left the defensive positions around Gloucester Point, Virginia on a foraging mission to resupply the British Yorktown defenders. On the return route they were ambushed by Rebel Militia accompanied by a French Brigade. Col Tarleton quickly established a screen of Lt Dragoons and Infantry to cover the retreating wagons escape and back into safety of the British trenches. This game is "based" on that Fall, 1781 skirmish and the scenario in the Black Powder "Rebellion" book, pg 145. Black Powder and or Hail Caesar experience preferred. Hope to see you at Cold War SFC Retired |
| Sundance | 25 Feb 2015 8:55 a.m. PST |
Best wishes with the game. We played it once. In the first combat, Lauzun's cavalry broke morale and routed, leaving the Allies with no cavalry and no way to catch the wagons. Game over on Turn 2. |
| SFC Retired | 25 Feb 2015 9:14 a.m. PST |
This scenario is based on the one in the book…there are three small CAV units on each side plus Infantry. 1st Game was a British victory not one wagon captured. As teh Cav had major Cmd roll problems and the Infantry became locked in a musket battle at the far end of the battlefield allowing the British wagons to hurry off the board unmolested! Last nights play test was a BIG Colonial victory with all three wagons captured. Colonial militia cav Rget routed the Tory "Buck County Dragoons" and sent the Queens Rangers Cav unit into a retreat then captured a wagon with a "sweeping advance" Luzons did well too as they routhed the 16th Drgoons and killled off the Queens Rangers cav…then captured the last two wagons! link
Battlefield with American Co's link
Dinwidde Militia Cav tangle and win vs Tory Bucks County Dragoons
SFC Retired
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| Supercilius Maximus | 25 Feb 2015 1:28 p.m. PST |
Try the version in the British Grenadier scenario books and see how that plays out (you don't need to use the BG rules themselves). The order-of-battle is much more detailed (and accurate). |
| dantheman | 25 Feb 2015 3:05 p.m. PST |
Already signed up, I am a bad command die roller though. |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.