Before the battle begins, one thing I had omitted from my home spun rules, was an army break point. I don't want this battle to be a slug fest, last man standing type affair. That rarely happens in battles of any period, let alone the American Civil War. The elan counters, record the spirit, morale, cohesion not the casualties suffered. An infantry battalion has six elan if fresh, if it is reduced to one elan, it doesn't mean the unit of 300 or so men, has been reduced to just 50, it just means the unit is spent, the men just cannot take any more, they are no longer able to function as a unit.
I will set the break point for both sides at one third, as there are eleven units per side, I will round that 3.33 up to 4. A unit with a single elan remaining will be counted against that total, just as a totally routed unit would be. Once four units are lost/single elan remaining, that army will retire from the field.
Union initiative.
Counter battery fire.
One success.
Same on the other flank, though the arrows point to 11th Mississippi, that is due to my eyesight!
Nothing, maybe they should have been firing at the infantry.
Confederate artillery respond with counter battery fire of their own, and the whole line advances.
Sometimes you just get lucky! Even with half dice they do the job.
'J' Battery, 1st Ohio is destroyed.
A single hit and a fall back inflicted on 'G' Battery, 4th US Artillery.
Union initiative.
Huger's artillery are the target.
No luck.
Louisiana artillery are now free to concentrate on 107th Ohio.
Huger's attempts to finish off the enemy artillery.
Success.
'G' Battery is removed.
The whole rebel line continues to advance.
Table at the end of the turn, once again the Union artillery failed to live up to expectations, the rebel guns are wounded but still functional, but are now becoming masked by the advancing infantry.
Confederate initiative.
Artillery limbered and a general advance.
The Union declined to move. Union initiative.
This time they do advance, the idea being that the rebels will have to move into musket range and not be able to fire this turn.
Same all along the Union line, an advance.
Rebel troops continue to advance into musket range.
I omitted to take a photo of the initiative, but it was won by the Confederates.
2nd Virginia Cavalry charge 1st Vermont, as muskets open up all along the line.
On the other flank, 1st Michigan Cavalry charge 17th Connecticut Cavalry.
No success for the 2nd Virginia.
107th Ohio, take one hit and a push back from 5th Alabama.
No photo, but 33rd Massachusetts took one hit and a fall back from 13th Alabama.
Across the road on the other flank, 11th Mississippi score two hits on 154th New York.
42nd Mississippi just a single hit on 27th Pennsylvania.
55th North Carolina manage three on 134th New York.
Two hits and a push back, recorded by 2nd Mississippi on 73rd Pennsylvania.
1st Maryland two hits, (sabres count in melee if mounted) and two push backs.
Situation on the battlefield after the rebel volley and charges.
It was bad, but could have been much worse.
On this flank it is the Union who are victorious in the cavalry melee. 2nd Virginia pushed back with two hits by 1st Vermont.
107th Ohio not in musket range, so 33rd Massachusetts devastate 13th Alabama with three hits.
73rd Ohio turn to face the danger on their flank from 1st Tennessee.
154th New York on 11th Mississippi.
27th Pennsylvania on 42nd Mississippi
134th New York against 55th North Carolina.
73rd Pennsylvania on 2nd Mississippi.
West side of the table at the end of the turn. Union have the slight upper hand here.
Across the road, very even, the Union musketry had been more effective than the rebels, making the forces now much more on a par, elan wise.
The whole table.
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