"Antietam Campaign" Topic

Last Saturday I hosted a game for our local club. The Battle of Turner's Gap. This is part of our ongoing Antietam Campaign and the last South Mountain scenario. Next month will be the main event.

Rules used are "Mr. Lincoln's War" which is a regimental level set of rules. Figures are 15mm from a variety of manufactures. View the photographs on my Flickr page.

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A very impressive looking game!
Grelber

Very nice pictures. Looks fun. 😀

Very nice looking game! I, too, have been studying up on South Mountain and Antietam. I found this gem of a book at the Antietam Gift shop: "The Maps of Antietam" by Bradley M. Gottfried. ISBN: 978-1-611210-86-6, Savas Beatie Books, HB, 326 pages, half in color; $39.95 USD.

What makes this so desireable for a wargamer is that almost all of the book has a map on the right-hand page and a narrative of what you are seeing on the left-hand page. Each pair of pages shows terrain and unit movements, key terrain features, field and road shapes, etc. covering anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours per map. Each map could be it's own scenario! Have started to half heartedly make some purposely designed terrain boards and it's so much easier when you already have a scale plan to follow.

Just wanted to share this as I already have gotten that much enjoyment out the the book by just reading the blow-by-blow accounts. Also bought "Artillery Hell" about the large role arty played for both sides at Antietam. Won't bore you with another review, but it's another nugget of golden , hard to find or compile views from both sides from an artillery history point of view.

Keep us informed as to how "The Main Event " goes. Does Tombs do as well in the game as he did in history at the middle bridge? Etc.

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Tom

Dye4minis

I have those books and they are very good. This isn't my first time to do Antietam. Back in the late 90s we did most of the battle (minus the sunken, which we did later) on a huge table. We used JR2 and you can imagine the number of figures we had on the table. Another good book is "Before Antietam : The Battle for South Mountain" by John Michael Priest and his excellent book
".Antietam : The Soldiers' Battle".

Thanks for the leads, OC! Appreciate them. Sometimes it's hard (and expensive) to go after a book from it's title and dust cover. Knowing it is a quality one means a lot!

Thanks.

v/r
Tom