Black Powder Salem Church

[Dave Fielder]

BP is a toolset, which is its advantage - my opponent was a 40K devotee who had never played a Horse and Musket game but the mechanisms were familiar enough for him to understand the rules quickly, the QRS was more than enough. Fundamentalists will implode with a such a ruleset, it's too vanilla and needs tweaking with scenarios and specific periods, but frankly who doesn't do that with every set of rules. In the scenario we didn't play the 7th turn so the assault on Salem Church never actually occurred, but we assumed it would have taken at least two turns, 1st turn to weaken the troops with firepower (muskets) and 2nd turn an assault by the whole of Hoke's Brigade - which might not have broken in. The concept of ACW troops being 'Whipped' (i.e Broken but still on the table) and hence cluttering the battlefield with their broken presence played out nicely ... the battlefield remained busy with flotsam and jetsam, with good ordered troops trying to get around them.