Longstreet with Lee

 

Back in 2016 I moved to Madison, Wisconsin and shortly after Lee moved to Sydney Australia, so it did not look like we would get a game in any time soon. But after nearly six years we finally sat down across a games table.

Since ew last met we've both been growing our ACW collections, I've got both Union and Confederates while Lee has quite a large collection of Confederates.

I'd initially suggested we used the Pickett's Charge rules, but as we were meeting at the club it made more sense to play Longstreet as we would be able to play in two to three hours on a smaller table.

As Lee had not played them before I picked a couple of roughly equal forces of five units of foot and a battery of guns.

The Outflanking scenario makes a good starting point.

Randomizing the roles, Lee would be the attacker.

We had a great couple of hours too and fro catching up from the missing years. A great game that was an eventual victory to the Confederates.

More of Lee's photos below.

Hopefully, it will not be six years before the next one.