Saturday the local HMGS-South group played a game of Black Powder at the Dogs of War shop. The ACW scenario was based loosely on the action at Fox Gap, South Mountain on September 14, 1862. The scenario was adjusted to accommodate the available 15mm units and the variable number of players expected to show up.
Two Union brigades look across the fields at the defending Confederate brigade
The Union objectives are the confederate position (upper right) and the road junction (lower right).
The left Union brigade moves out rapidly.
The Union advance on the left has stalled just inside the range of Confederate guns. The center brigade moves slowly through the standing corn.
A third Union brigade rushes down the turnpike to block an arriving Confederate brigade.
The center Union brigade advances rapidly to catch up with the left.
Marauding Confederate cavalry threaten the Union guns.
Union infantry charges into the Confederate position.
The left Union brigade losses three regiments and is broken. The center brigade tears a hole in the Confederate lines.
On the turnpike, troops of both sides extend the firing line as they come up.
After four hours of play we had to adjourn. The Union had managed to break into the Confederate position in the center, but with one Union brigade broken and the Confederates strongly holding the turnpike objective, we called this a Confederate win.
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