"The Crater was a blast! Petersburg" Topic

I've written so many battle reports by now, I'm sure one or two of my fellow TMPers are likely to think "oh, it's him again" and skip over this. Please don't – this one's different and really good! (I think.)

My topic title is misleading because the Petersburg game I want to tell you about wasn't just the Battle of the Crater. It covered the whole nine months of the siege, from June 1864 to April 1865. It did so in 9 game turns (actually we only needed 8) on a 6'x4' table. Although it used the basic BBB rules, it stripped some away and introduced some new special ones because of the scale and scope of the scenario, covering logistics etc.

The result was as good as I could have hoped for, given that this was an untested new scenario. Four of us played it twice in 5 hours. The two games followed radically different US plans and produced very different games, yet still resonated with the actual history. I found it very thought-provoking and illuminating. My blog post about it is here and includes a link to the scenario if you're interested:
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That was a good report. The nice thing about small scales is that a wagon train will look good on the table and not break the bank.

Thank you. You're welcome, as always.

That wagon train was a luxury when I was 17 and the bank wasn't quite as big as it is now.