Tuesday and the club has got back together after the Christmas recess. Not too many turned up and only a few games in play.
Martin was once again trialling a battle for his scenario book for Cheer Boys, Cheer! and, like last time, was short of terrain as the club owns no wide hills, barring a couple of foam ones, for making valleys.
The Battle of Morton's Ford, 6th Feb, 1864
The Rebels were starting to get a bit worried as the Blues crossed the river unopposed except for the cannons which themselves were coming under counter-battery fire from the Union positions on the far side of the river. This was pretty ineffectual due to the fortifications.
From Furness Wargamers |
The Blues continued across the valley and were nearing the empty entrenchments when finally the Greys turned up and it then became a race to see who could populate the trench-line first.
The Union nearly pulled it off, reaching into the encampment, but left a flank exposed and one disastrous retreat sparked a cascaded panic and prevented key reinforcements from reaching the entrenchments in time, handing them and the battle to the Confederates.
Elsewhere in the club Graeme was once more teaching Firestorm: Armada, while a couple of groups of role-players, one setting up a Rogue Trader game, and another carrying on with a Warhammer Fantasy campaign.
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