Yesterday my buddy Mark set up a Regimental Skirmish scale game for my small band of brothers. Mark has a lovely collection of American Civil War in both 15's and 25's. Our battle as you will see is of the one TRUE scale. It was a meeting engagement with both sides having two regiments of foot and one battery each.
The rules used were called Band of Brothers which is a very old set but still fun set of rules that you could almost call a two page rule set. Very easy and fast.
In the course of about three hours we battled it out, ate pizza, were spoiled by Mark's wife with brownies hot out of the oven, but most of all we had fun.
I was on the Union side on our left flank controlling a regiment and the battery of guns, while my friend had a regiment that he pushed up on our right. One of the best moments in the game for me came when after an intense shootout with a Confederate regiment is when I finally got my battery in place and able to use canister to take out a whole company. I also had some really good rolls to start the game out and had my opponent on the backfoot as he wasn't rolling anywhere near as well as I had. He did do a commendable job though of getting stuck in, but in the end the attrition suffered by the Confederates was too much.
The following pictures are the only ones I had a moment to take.
First picture here is of our two regiments giving each other a fist full of lead!
You damn Yankees were brutal!!
ReplyDeleteYour descriptions was accurate. Dice rolls make everything! Mine were pure crap!
Was a great time
Good looking game!
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