Whitaker’s Farm : 1862

Managed to play another Battle with the ACW collection a week or so ago, introducing somebody else to my rules and the joy of the ACW. A simple set up with two small brigades attempting to capture Whitaker’s Farm. We reduced the resilience of the units in this game and low a behold everybody started running off, possibly too realistic. We have tweeted them ever so slightly back and will be playing another game soon.

Half of the Rebel brigade push forward in column towards the plantation supported by artillery

The union forces are already in line formation and move forward on their right flank

On the Union left the Union Brigade Commander waves forward two further regiments

Rebels in the plantation take a nasty volley from the Union Zouaves and are forced back

Rebel Zouaves then attempt to take the plantation but are also forced back after fearce hand to hand combat

Troops on the union left have deployed into line...things are looking good

But then a second wave of attack on the Rebel left pushes the union forces out of the plantation

Reluctant to come out from cover the rebels exchange fire from the wheat field

Suddenly on the union left the first regiment breaks....this was shortly followed by the second unit !

Union artillery attempts to support their line but are largely ineffective other than for keep the rebels heads down

In the end the Rebels have pushed the Union Forces back through the farm and are in possession of the plantation a good win 🙂

Another fun battle, rules genuinely seem to work quite well and I’m think we have the right tweet for morale. More to come but I do need to paint some more Rebels 😀