AARs: Show Us Yer Games!

[paul]

Looks like felt paper the way it curled on the end.

[Bezmozgu7]

As I understand it, the marsh is a sheet of artist's canvas cut to shape. It was painted blue, with additional blue/green shading and completed with an application of polyeurathane (sp?) finish with fine and medium flocking sprinkled on while the finish was still wet.

[whoa Mohamed]

whatever it's made of it looks great

[Bezmozgu7]

Thanks guys but all the credit goes to Ben and his wife; I only played a supporting role on this one.

[ACWBill]

A short AAR of our January game, which took place at my home on Jan 17. The game was Battle of Wilson's Creek, Dawn in the West Book 1. This is the first game in a series of 4 that will play out at conventions and my club events over the course of 2015. I will run this event again at Little Wars in St. Charles, IL in April. We gamed using Regimental Fire & Fury for about 5 hours and made it through 8 turns with several younger players involved.


A shot of the battlefield before the game began.


The opening positions of the CS Side






A Lyon in the woods. : )



The US Assault begins on Bloody Hill.




Sigel required a roll of 6 on a 6 sided dice to move, although the CS players did not know this. He was never able to do so, but kept a CS Brigade occupied for much of the game.



Lyon's attack on the hill captures the first of two key points. It looks much like a US victory by turn 4.



Although Lyon contested the second key point and captured it for a turn, a local CS counter-attack took that point back again for McCulloch's boys.





Heavy fighting on the east side of Wilson's Creek was indecisive, but wore down the heavily outnumbered 1st US despite a resilient attack by a few of the only decent troops on the battlefield.


The CS player now is able to extract a battery and three regiments from Ray's cornfield to bring his numerical superiority into play on his own right on Bloody Hill.





The US players wisely chose to form a defensive line to stand up against the CS Counter-Assault.



Both sides consolidated their positions and did not attempt a full assault. The game ended in a tactical draw, with the US in a position which would likely require a strategic withdrawal.

The game was bloody and fun.

B

[SKeeM]

Holy Crap! That's serious! What a great looking table.

[RedLeif]

Very nice AAR Bill. in my gaming experience "bloody and fun" usually sums up a very good game, congratulations!

[paul]

ACW Bill,

Awesome looking battle. By chance will you be going to the Recon convention in May? If so, will you be running any F&F games?

Regards,

Paul

[ACWBill]

ACW Bill,

Awesome looking battle. By chance will you be going to the Recon convention in May? If so, will you be running any F&F games?

Regards,

Paul

Paul, I will be in St. Charles that weekend for Little Wars. First time in around 15 years I have missed Recon.

[BattlerBritain]

I echo SKeeM's comments

[paul]

Here is the After Action Report section Ivicus.

[Donald M. Scheef]

A suggestion to the monitors: Stick this AAR thread at the top of the listings.

Don S.

[jb]

Nice Table as usual Bill.
I put on Wilson's creek at Little Wars last year. The Union will only win this scenario less than 10%, if playing historical.

[paul]

It would be nice to get this one and show us your terrain put to the top.

[Bezmozgu7]

Bill, another awesome game and terrain set-up -- thanks for sharing.

Agree with Paul, it would be great if both the AAR and Terrain threads were "stuck" at the top of the forum.