Black Powder- ACW... at last.

After several months of painting it as time to get some plastic & lead on the table. Each side fielded 13 battalions of infantry and 2 batteries of artillery.

We just used the values in the ACW scenario in the main rule book.

Deployment

My infantry advance through the woods.

Kent moves his brigade forward.

My brigades advances in open order.

The Northerners advance in the centre- nice looking units Kent.

Dave's brigades prepares to halt the Yankee advance. Can he hold the centre?

Meanwhile in the woods its handbags at a dozen paces i.e. ineffectual skirmishing- funny that.

The centre holds steady. But on our far left Stephen has failed to move and is about to be caught in column!.

Stephen defends the farm vs mounting yankee pressure.

The first of several melees in the woods- neither side managing to get the upper hand, but Simon's troops stall my advance.

Stephen's flank is no in serious trouble. Will it hold?

I still haven't broken through the woods.

But am able to offer some fire support to the centre.

The left flank about to implode.

The centre also under immensie pressure. Dave's boys manage to halt the Northerner's advance.

Steady boys, steady...

Another round of ineffectual close combat in the woods. Maybe not such a good idea after all...

Condefederate artillery supporting the centre.

Where did Stephen's brigade go? It has been driven from the field leaving Dave's brigade dangerously exposed.

The riting is ell and truely on the wall so the Confederates decide to pull back.

So we'll call it a draw right...right?

A good game. We'd forgotten most of the rules but even so got there in the end. We've decided to allow each brigade one regiment to be dedicated skirmishers and allow everyone else to use "open order" without the skirmisher bonus. We allowed everyone to skirmish this time but it seemed wrong.

A good fun game and everyone enjoyed themselves so we are running another one next week.

Craig