Change of pace

Little Bro wanted to break out the ACW collection this morning.  So I set up a 3x3 table using my new Badlands Matt from FLG.

So out popped the best ACW rules I have ever played:  the original Fire and Fury.

The table was set up with woods on the left side with a stream cutting through and around.  a swamp was in the bend.  A road went from left to right with an enclosed field and a barn on the left side of the stream by the bridge and a plantation on a hill on the right side of the table.  I went for an 1861 scenario somewhere near the Kentucky/Tennessee border. Both sides had 4 brigades of infantry, 1 cavalry brigade and 3 batteries.  Union infantry brigades were 8 stands while the Reb brigades were 6 stands.  Both cavalry brigades stood at 4 stands.  All troops were rated as green.

The Union objective was the barn by the bridge.  Easily identified by the advertisement for Rock City.

Little Bro opted to command the Union.

This is what the table looked like when Bro called it because of his loses.  The Rebs were still holding the stream line but none of the infantry brigades on the table were still fresh.  3 of the 4 Union infantry brigades were spent.  One Reb infantry brigade was spent and one had been destroyed.  The cavalry brigades on both sides had ceased to exist.

After multiple turns, the Rebel dead stood at six stands of infantry dead, 1 cavalry stand and 1/2 stand of guns.

The Rebs captured 2 stands of Union cavalry, 2 stands of Union Infantry and 1 stand of guns.

 The Union dead numbered 8 stands of infantry and 2 stands of cavalry.

The Union captured 3 stands of Rebel cavalry and 3 stands of infantry.