My painted boys with the Irish flag added by Dennis. Of course they continued to hold the wall throughout this game....
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Note the yellow stars which indicate "battle objectives" Now I understand the trademark of Dennis's games -- lightbulb moment!
He play-tested the scenario and Cutler's brigade quickly collapsed. Indicating I don't mind if he gave me the "disaster command" I was given these regiments. In this game however while I did get pushed back, the Confederate forces could not recover from the combat along the woods so gave me a couple turns to make the right die rolls to get rid of my shaken status.
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| The yellow star corresponds to the star in the middle of Baxter's command. Carter's Confederates line the wall. |
Meanwhile, the two other Reb commands were making trouble for my counterpart on the other side of the Union's chevron shaped defensive position. Eventually we were to have limited success holding off the steady deliberate Southern attacks. The Union reinforcements were scheduled to come on shortly which probably would stabilize the situation for us Northerners.
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| "Rebs to the left, Rebs to the right...." |
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| the scene of O'Neal's Reb command (see map) advancing. |
For the second time in a many games in which others hosted, I got to play with figures I painted; in this case the 20mm ACW of Dennis's collection. Nice to see the boys put to good use!