Here are all the new ACW buildings as featured in the game on the previous post - they are all 3D printed models available from Battle Honours.
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| Twin Houses - Seven Pines. |
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| Dunker Church - Antietam |
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| Evergreen Cemetery Gate - Gettysburg |
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| Klingel House - Gettysburg |
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| Leister Farm - Gettysburg |
A bit crazy to have all this stuff duplicated in two scales but that's wargaming for you!
I slightly rearranged the terrain for another bash at my Fire & Fury 'fight for the crossroads' scenario. This time it was Tony who donned the Confederate grey of 'Old Pete' Longstreet while I retained command of two divisions of Porters Union V Corps.
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| The table - looking pretty similar to the last game but with the addition of some newly painted buildings. |
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| The view from behind the Union left flank. |
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| I got my lads moving forward whilst willy 'Old Pete' hung back to see how things developed. |
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| My Zouaves seek the cover provided by the central wooded hill. |
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| Meanwhile the Tigers occupy the road junction. |
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| Buford's troopers arrive hoping for a better showing than they did in the previous game. Waiting for them at the end of the road are Ashby's dismounted cavalry. |
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| Tony keeps his right flank refused - for the time being. |
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| I shake out a battle line for an attack on the crossroads. |
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| 'The sweepings of the Louisiana water front' Rob Wheat's Louisiana Tigers. |
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| Buford's boys have sensibly dismounted and are using the extra effectiveness of their carbines at long range to annoy Ashby's men. |
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| My attack goes in at the crossroads. The casualty marker denotes that the unit is disordered. |
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| My Zouaves emerge from the tree line hoping to flank the Tigers. |
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| Over on my right flank there are reserves arriving - unfortunately the Rebs have some as well, marching along the road in the distance. |
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| Buford closely engages his nemesis Ashby but it was Buford once again who was forced to retreat! |
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| On my left things have gone horribly wrong! Tony's men rush forward and with a Rebel Yell, sweep my men away capturing two batteries in the process. |
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| On the right, the Iron Brigade deploy and are already disordered - not quite as iron as I had hoped. |
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| But we push on... |
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| ...although in the centre my attack has been repulsed. |
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| Tony's men have broken my left flank... |
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| ...and pushed right up to the cemetery gate! |
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| The Irish surge forward - begorrah! |
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| Charge and counter-charge as troops swirl across the fields. |
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| Longstreet is moving to flank me in the centre. |
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| That swirling melee from the Rebel perspective. |
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| The table near the end of play. |
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| The Confederates push in my centre and it's game over with an impressive win on points for Tony. |
Another great little game and I'm really getting to like these rules (the original version) as I think they have a realistic back-and-forth Civil War feel. For now though the troops must return to their storage boxes while I turn my attention back to painting 20mm Napoleonics.
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| Rebs on the left, Union on the right - the road junction in the centre of the table is the objective. |
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| The Union start the game with three brigades and two batteries deployed. |
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| The Rebs have the same. |
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| We wasted no time getting stuck in with both sides advancing rapidly. |
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| My Zouaves got a run out in this game. |
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| A clash in the woods which became a bit of a see-saw fight. We discovered that while brigades remain 'fresh' nothing too dramatic tends to happen. |
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| Buford's cavalry make it onto the table for their first ever fight. The house is a rather nice 3D print from the Battle Honours range. |
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| Confederate reinforcements start to arrive. |
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| The action in full flow with brigades attacking, being pushed back and attacking again. |
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| Ashby's Reb cavalry appear and, sneakily avoiding my own cavalry, ride and dismount on the flank of one of my infantry brigades helping to push them back. |
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| They then mount up and charge my dismounted troopers at the crossroads with a 'Swept from the field' result! |
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| Fortunately I have infantry reserves arriving. |
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| The action is now general along the whole table. At this point Goya had to leave so I carried on solo for another three turns. |
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| I was hampered by some poor die rolls on the 'Maneuver' table that slowed the deployment of my reserves. |
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| The Confederates were now firmly in control of the crossroads. |
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| With artillery up in the front line... |
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| Their position looked unassailable. |
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| That's it - Chapman's brigade skedaddles and it's game over! |
So I decided to complete my forces by adding a Confederate cavalry unit. These are more of the excellent AB Figures sculpts all based for Fire & Fury.
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| Mounted figures on 6 stands of 2 figures each. |
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| Dismounted version on 5 stands plus a horse holder. |
This just about wraps up this project except for a few terrain items I want to paint.
