Scenario 14: static defense from one hour wargames

[petercooman]

Been too long since i rolled some dice in anger, so i tried this one. Played theone hour wargames scenario, but used "napoleonic wargaming" with my changes for the ACW. A lot of pictures turned out rubbish, but it's just for fun!

Fairly straightforward scenario; red army (confederates) controls the hill and the town, blue army has to take one of the two before the game ends.

Rolled up the armies from the one hour wargame book, but instead of rolling up an army of 6 units, i rolled up 2 armies for each side, one of 4 and one of 3. Confederates got 4 infantry, 2 light infantry (changed zouaves for light infantry) and 1 artillery, union got 5 infantry and 2 artillery.


The Confederates deployed like this:


First turn saw union troops enter the board,dividing evenly among the targets but put one more unit of troops to capture the town.





rebel first turn saw them redeploying their lights to the forest.


And one of the infantry getting in position for the enemy's flanks


turn 2, and the artillerydeployed and the men got on their way (taking some atillery fire)


the right flank got into position for their attack


but immediately took heavy fire from the enemy


their return fire in turn 3 from the cannnon was pretty awful


And the shots from the infantry were not better


At least the cannon on the other side hit something!


And one hit was done against the lights


Bottom of turn 3 saw some hits on the foward unit on the left flank


And on the right the lights shot some more


Turn 4 saw the forward unit on the left flank redirect itself towards the infantry next to the hill


and the other flank doing very few hits


The confederates however were pretty much cosistent in dealing damage, and brought their troops forward to do even more



But the union troops finally got some better dice rolls, removing a stand


The attack on left is stalling


While on right, there are big chunks missing from the army


But left flank is following closely!


The last regiment on the right gets some lucky shots off though, removing another base ofthe enemy infantry


while left gets ready to charge the hill


The rebels, pretty confident on right, pull back one of the lights to support the hill


While their infantry fails to finish of the last stand of the opposing regiment


In their turn, the union lines up to charge


While their other flank holds on by the skin of it's teeth


absorbing hit after hit


the lights try to stop the charge


But get hit bad by the artillery


On right they get a lucky break as well


But it is not to be, the charge goes wrong and the remainder of the union infantry flees back down the hill


After another turn of shooting, the union decides it is best to retreat!


Confederate victory!

Great game, but very unlucky rolls for the union! Confederate troops had all the sixes!!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good repprt

[petercooman]

Thanks! Was a bit rushed, but it was 2 AM so not that fresh anymore 

Sadly I get up at 7-8 AM 

[Steve J]

Nice report and I keep meaning to give these and his other rules a decent run out. Sadly I seem to get distracted by other rules. Maybe over the Xmas break I might find some time, but doubt it...

[Techno]

Rather tasty, Peter !

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

Nice report and I keep meaning to give these and his other rules a decent run out. Sadly I seem to get distracted by other rules. Maybe over the Xmas break I might find some time, but doubt it...

In all honesty, I find the one hour wargame rules too simple for my tastes. They give a good game, but not what I'm looking for. The scenarios in the book are really good though, and can easily be used with his other rulesets!

I like the Napoleonic rules, but will eventually get his other books as well I think! They are just quick and give a great game! They also scale pretty good with larger armies!

[Womble67]

Very enjoyable report

Take care

Andy