"The Battle of Port Republic" Topic
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Tango01  | 17 Oct 2025 4:42 p.m. PST |
" Yesterday we played another ACW game, using our house rules. Bart, Eddy and Koen showed up, so we had 4 players, which is the maximum limit I can host in my wargaming room. The scenario I prepared was based on the Battle of Port Republic, an encounter that took place during the 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign. When we say "based on … ", we do mean "inspired by … ". I'm not that fuzzy about recreating exact order of battles or recreate the terrain as exactly as possible, but I do look at the tactical challenges that were present in a given battle and try to translate them to the rules and table size we use. More specifically, I started from the wargaming setup for the batle given in the excellent book "Wargaming in History: The Shenandoah Valley…"
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