A right excellent butt-kicking...
Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:09 am
All,
Just had my Rebel Ass kicked bigtime by Damned Yankees. Sweet!
Situation -
Me - Pat Cleburnes Div - Chicamauga OOB (Modded).
Army - 4 Reb Divs / 6 Yankee Divs. Roughly 25,000 men each.
Map - Kansas - heavily modded by me and Davinci - Fog Mod engaged.
Orders - Hunt Them Down w/ objs.
Time - 0500 hrs.
What happened:
General Bragg orders my division down the road past the Tewes house to the main east-west highway. Obj. is the Fieldler orchard area. Col. Sanders',(you gotta love that), Cav out front. Contact by the cav right at the Fieldler farm area. Deploy my first Brigade across the road facing east, withdrawing the cav. LOTS of movement in the fog to my front. Second brigade goes to the right, 3rd. Brigade in reserve, sort of. Suddenly, out of the fog/tree line come more freakin' Yankees then I've ever seen in one spot. Turns out to be two full Divisions crashing into me. Here we go. My Batteries come up at full gallop, wheel into battery and open fire. Fire off a courier for help. Just as I am absorbing all this, a third Division announces its presence on my right flank. 3rd. Brigade races over to refuse my right. Meanwhile, Cheatams Div, the largest on the field, is wandering around the Neumann house, completly unaware anything is going on. General Bragg rides up, issues some completely incomprhensible orders and rides off. I do notice that Hindman's Div has been sent in support but it is already too late. The Damned Yankees charge and charge again. My brave lads stand as long as they can then run like hell. No chance of a fighting withdrawl at all. Did manage to get all the guns away, though. Total game time - 30 miniutes. Total time in action, maybe 20 minutes. Casualties - heavy.
Excellent game. Once again, AI General Bragg proves to be an idiot.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Jack O'Neill B)
Just had my Rebel Ass kicked bigtime by Damned Yankees. Sweet!
Situation -
Me - Pat Cleburnes Div - Chicamauga OOB (Modded).
Army - 4 Reb Divs / 6 Yankee Divs. Roughly 25,000 men each.
Map - Kansas - heavily modded by me and Davinci - Fog Mod engaged.
Orders - Hunt Them Down w/ objs.
Time - 0500 hrs.
What happened:
General Bragg orders my division down the road past the Tewes house to the main east-west highway. Obj. is the Fieldler orchard area. Col. Sanders',(you gotta love that), Cav out front. Contact by the cav right at the Fieldler farm area. Deploy my first Brigade across the road facing east, withdrawing the cav. LOTS of movement in the fog to my front. Second brigade goes to the right, 3rd. Brigade in reserve, sort of. Suddenly, out of the fog/tree line come more freakin' Yankees then I've ever seen in one spot. Turns out to be two full Divisions crashing into me. Here we go. My Batteries come up at full gallop, wheel into battery and open fire. Fire off a courier for help. Just as I am absorbing all this, a third Division announces its presence on my right flank. 3rd. Brigade races over to refuse my right. Meanwhile, Cheatams Div, the largest on the field, is wandering around the Neumann house, completly unaware anything is going on. General Bragg rides up, issues some completely incomprhensible orders and rides off. I do notice that Hindman's Div has been sent in support but it is already too late. The Damned Yankees charge and charge again. My brave lads stand as long as they can then run like hell. No chance of a fighting withdrawl at all. Did manage to get all the guns away, though. Total game time - 30 miniutes. Total time in action, maybe 20 minutes. Casualties - heavy.
Excellent game. Once again, AI General Bragg proves to be an idiot.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Jack O'Neill B)
