Historical Miniature Wargames
These are the four Longstreet generals still battling it out in our club campaign. In mid-1863 the Southern gentlemen (still) have an unbeaten string of victories under their belt. The Union generals have the benefit of knowing that in the end, Victory will be theirs. A War is not won in a single battle, but maybe they will win a single …
The Union army has so far managed to lose every single encounter. Luckily the two generals are very well connected and have inexhaustible personal funds to boost their career. Report of how Rehoboam Giraud lost against the Rebs Report of General Jennings’ failure
We’ve been playing a Longstreet campaign for a while now. At the moment, around mid-1863, the Union has an unbroken record of defeats. We started with five players, now that we are half way through we still have four eager generals actively playing and enjoying the campaign. We’ll try and put up decent after action reports in the future, so far …
Backround As the Confederate commanders McCulloch and McIntosh were busy getting themselves shot at the battle of Leetown (and the sole remaining senior Confederate commander on the field, Hebert, tried to follow suite but only managed to get himself captured), the Confederate CiC, Major General Earl van Dorn, was busy … well, no, he wasn’t busy at all. In fact, …
Background The Battle of Leetown was one of a pair of battles fought near Pea Ridge in Arkansas on March 7th, 1862. After the rebuff the Union suffered at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek earlier in 1861, the Confederates had enjoyed a brief period of dominance in Missouri. However, the two senior Confederate commanders, one from Missouri (Sterling Price) and …
The “Battle of Swift Run Bridge” was an engagement between two small army corps (11,00 men per side) in 1862 … that never was. Although this is a hypothetical scenario, it can easily be imagined to have been an action on the flank of a larger army in the eastern theatre, or an engagement between two independent commands in the …
This is the first game where we tried the modified nappy ruleset March Attack since for larger ACW battles we needed a ruleset that would be quicker than Regimental fire & Fury. Some rough ends were present here and there but considering it was the first trial run it worked just marvelously!