Sunday 1 February 2015

Port Republic in 15mm

This game with the boys was based on the Battle of Port Republic. Fought during Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

 The Union formed up  awaiting the attack from Jackson's Rebels.
 With the advanced brigade of Rebels seriously outnumbered there was little they could do until more Confederates arrived.
 The Union artillery opened up on the Rebel line as soon as they were within range.

 Finally more Confederates started to enter the battle. The Rebels began to push forward centring their attack on the road,
 The Rebel artillery is off to the left and has opened up on the Union guns. Having inflicted a fair amount of damage on the Union guns the Rebels kept their advance going toward the Union lines.
 Finally the two lines met, the result of which was carnage on both sides.
 The Rebels were having some success but with the Union lads now attacking the Confederate flank it was important for the Rebels to make a breakthrough.

 The Rebel flank began to disintegrate. Not all bad though as the Confederate 3rd Brigade was about to enter the field and fall on the now exposed Union flank.
Unfortunately time was up just as things were about to get interesting. We called it a draw but you have to wonder how it would have looked if we had been able to play out all the moves.

Very enjoyable night non the less.

The rules we used were Fire & Fury regimental.

23 comments:

  1. Great looking game mate. The draw was worth it by the look of it.

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  2. Amazing looking game! There is always the same problem with great games: not enough time...

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  3. Difficult to stop a game sometimes, isn't it? Anyway, sucj fantastic pictures are really impressive...perfect photos Rodger, and great report!

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  4. Lovely looking game and the terrain and minis looks great

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  5. Beautiful game, wish I was there playing.

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  6. Great looking game :)
    The time factor...? Night falls...?

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  7. You did it again ...
    Stunning, nice game.
    If there were no long travel, language, and some monetary problems
    I would have been a game table beside already for a little while

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  8. A feast of loveliness for my old eyes: the panoramic broad sweep of the battlefield, 15mm soldiers and equipment galore, wooden fences a plenty to make the eyes weep (I like fences), and if you get your head down close enough to the field of battle you can hear the sounds of 15mm battle.

    Sweet!

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  9. Rodger, that is a stunning setup! The models and terrain look superb.

    Ahhh, the what-if game is a lot of fun isn't it! I usually have to resolve it in my head as the game fished with sunset and loss of light so not other action was possible :-)

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  10. A beautiful table. You put on some of the best looking 15mm games I've ever seen.

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  11. Wow - as everyone else already commented, this is a stunning table - it looks like 1:1 scale. Lovely photography too, as always.

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  12. That was a great batrep Rodger, loads of great pics of all the action, shame it was a draw though, it would have been good to see the action carry on to a proper conclusion.

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  13. Excellent report, table, armies, photo's, everything! You always have such high quality games :-)

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  14. Very nice looking table. I'll have to remember this scenario.

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  15. Excellent looking game there Rodger!

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  16. Great looking game! Too bad you ran out of time! Would have been interesting to see the battle go through to the end.

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  17. What a great looking game Rodger!

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  18. A big table and it looks right in this scale with 15mm ACW. Superb pictures and terrain Roger.

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  19. Beautiful looking game Rodger! Like those fields as well, home made?

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    1. Thanks Mike. The fields unfortunately are not home made, Google Hotz mats and take it from there..

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  20. Very impressive set and minis! Cheers :)

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