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Friday 13 December 2019

Another game of Longstreet


Wednesday evening saw Drew and I engaged in another American Civil war battle using Longstreet.

We both had identical forces of three units of 10 bases of Eager Conscript foot, one unit of 8 bases of Eager Conscript cavalry and one battery of 3 six pounders. We would use an 1863 deck for the game.

The Union forces won the scouting roll and would attack and also rolled much higher with their terrain roll, drew having eight pieces to my three.

Initial deployments are shown in the image below.


Both sides advanced towards the enemy with foot out in front and their horse in supporting positions. The First blood was claimed by the Union as their artillery pounded away at one of the Confederate regiments.



As the infantry closed a brisk firefight ensued with neither side gaining an advantage.


With a whoop the entire Confederate line of infantry crashed into their opposite numbers, who were driven off, but with little loss.



Another Confederate charge saw the Union centre broken and their gallant cavalry rushed to plug the gap, driving back the Confederate infantry, in what was quite a surprising result!



Having pushed the Zouaves back through the woodland on our left flank we kept up the pressure forcing them back again.


The Confederate cavalry were thrown into the line and attempted to charge the Union guns, but, some bad surveying saw them unable to complete the charge and stuck in the centre, after some desultory fire on them they charged again and all was done for the Union cause.


A rare victory for the Confederacy, and with a couple of games in hand we are going to kick off a campaign to be played over the coming months.







14 comments:

  1. Very impressive. Have only played Longstreet once, quite enjoyed it we never got around to starting a campaign.

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    1. Thanks Phil, I think they work quite well and give a good game that can be completed in 'club night game' time

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  2. Looks great, beautiful pictures and armies!

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  3. Excellent looking figures and table. Longstreet is on the list of ACW games to be played one day!

    Cheers, Ross

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  4. Handsome game! Your Confederate mounted officer pops off the table with his brightly colored yellow braid.

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  5. Very impressive gaming, Scivs!

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  6. Impressive looking game and always happy to see other folks playing Longstreet. The idea of using cavalry as a reserve to stop breakthroughs is a novel one, very Napoleonic. I've always used them in Longstreet and other ACW games as mounted infantry. I shall have to try that.
    Great looking game.
    Michael

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    1. Thanks Michael, we are playing on a 6ft x 5ft table with a 40mm frontage, so it's often needed to keep a reserve as not everything can go in the front line.

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