This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Black Powder Civil War game. The scenario was loosely based on the Battle of Piedmont, June 5th, 1864.
Black Powder rules modifications: BP-ACW specific rules (distances were adjusted for a ground scale of 50 yards per inch)
The river and hill terrain was based on Google Map terrain.
The main Confederate position.
Barricades of felled trees protect some of the troops.
The Union advance with most of the artillery in the center, infantry brigades on each side and cavalry on the far left.
Union cavalry moving fast in march column are charged by Confederate cavalry. One Union regiment is destroyed.
The Union guns destroy a Confederate battery while the Union infantry advances.
The Union infantry attack goes in.
Union cavalry and infantry gradually push back the Confederate right wing.
A Union regiment is broken by canister fire and another retreats. The second Union line charges in.
The Union assault on the barricades has failed, and the Confederate line shifts to face the threat to their right.
A Confederate battery is charged in the flank.
Union cavalry massed for an attack on the remaining Confederate cavalry.
After four hours of play we called the game. The Union took heavy casualties to their largest brigade, the Confederates lost two batteries and cavalry losses were about even.
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