I sent my better troops against his right and hoped to destroy some of his artillery on the left with counter battery fire. I ended up losing 3 guns to his 1 in the artillery duel, and the 54th Mass. 24 Mi & 90th Illinois were decimated trying to take the high ground. A bad day for the Union.

We played the 2nd 1863 battle in our Longstreet campaign today, with another Gettysburg-style scenario rolled for - the Hilltop - 2 objectives on 2 hills (Round Tops?), except my Union would be attacking. The captured Union signal tower was 1 of the 2 objectives.

The West German WW3 build continues with the arrival of decals allowing me to finish off some vehicles. Along with the infantry I finished previously, this gives enough of a force to play a game of NorthAG or 7 Days #ColdWargaming #ColdWarGoneHot

Having already taken 25% casualties, the Union thought better of assaulting and withdrew - I would never have taken this decision in a one-off game, but the campaign situation meant I had to think of the next game. A big thumbs up for Longstreet once again.

Skilfully executed Confederate spoiling attacks meant that the Rebs were in a strong defensive position by the time the Union was ready to assault.

Continuing with our Longstreet 1863 battle, things went south quickly for the Union - a combination of having a Senior Commander killed while deploying his troops and poor artillery positioning.

We started game 4 of our neglected ACW Campaign today using the Longstreet rules - an escalating engagement set in 1863 (Gettysburg?). Jeb Stuart wasn’t away on his raid though, so looks like there’ll be some cavalry on cavalry action when we continue tomorrow. #wargaming

Cracking game of Midgard today - Fords of Isen scenario from Lard Annual 2024. My Elves holding the Fords (but using Rohan stats) being relieved by Rohan. A bad defeat with both Fords lost and Grimbold dead - a finely balanced scenario until you factor in my dice rolling! #midgard #spreadthelard

@tomjmegan.bsky.social & I seem to have the same New Year’s resolution - get some W Germans on the table for NorthAG. Though there’s no way I can compete with the industrial muscle of Egan Heavy Industries, I have completed some infantry & support - 40 Shades of Green indeed (even the rifle butts!)

Played our 1st game of Midgard this weekend - a WOTR bash using the 400 point lists on the FB page. Really good game - though I intend on using the rules for Fantasy rather than Historical games, this was a great way of easing ourselves into them. #spreadthelard #wargaming

Second game of V for Victory using vehicles today and it’s starting to click. We got bogged down a bit with rules queries over HE last week, but they were answered quickly by the authors on the FB group. Very enjoyable game. #wargaming