"I have a clever plan....."

Thanks for all the feedback & requests.   Its been a ...few...years since I read up on any accounts of Gettysburg apart from various memoirs (from both sides), or based a game on some part of it, and have never gotten around to the Peach Orchard etc. So....I've just been making a brief review of that section of the battle and have decided that to design a scenario to fit my troops on hand, my table, and my one page rules, with at least a whiff of history it'll take a day or six before I can get the game on the table.       
(Luckily I'll be home alone next weekend! :)  ), 

 (see Kinch's Charge 1 July 2013 on my then 6'x8' table.)

Yeah, the armies have grown in numbers since then.

So, in the mean time time, I'll start with a simple scenario from one of the other requested periods and keep going until all requests have been tabled.

Help Me, I'm FALL-ing. ( A call for readers' requests)

Autumn is often a busy, yard and house time, preparing for winter. This year its complicated by a litter of pups and a long drought  (5 month) which may be starting to end. As a result, I seem to have run low on imagination or inspiration, even when I do have time for a game. All of my current collections have taken the field during 2025, some multiple times so I can't pick on an ignorant orphan to fill the gap.

So....since I don't know what I want to play, I'm looking for suggestions as to what collection to put on the table (based on my active collections see the latest update here). Here's the 3 highest on my list but they are all in the race. All suggestions are welcome!

Not Prince Valiant.....

Not Lundy's Lane as per OHW

Ambush 

Now, time to get back to work.......

A T Party.....(T Junction that is...)

When Brigadier Ross, the British General in Pisiquid, heard that the Duc d'Anville's armada had arrived in Chebucto Bay (now known as Halifax harbour), he ordered Brigadier Turner to lead an expedition to cross the bridge over what is now known as the Meander River, and block the only direct routes from Chebucto to either Pisiquid, or to the Acadian settlements along the Minas Basin.     
(Where Highway 215 crosses the Meander River near the current NS town of Brooklyn if  anyone wants to look at a map, but don't expect even a close representation of the actual geography of any particular point!)

The opposing forces collide. The British force consisted of 1 battalion of veteran Royal Americans and 3 battalions of provincials as well as 2 companies of rangers. The French had 1 battalion of Colonial infantry from Ft. Beausejour and 2 companies of veteran Colonial infantry from Canada, 2 companies of militia and two parties of Abenaqui and Mi'kmaq warriors. 
(Note Acadian women and children on the far left, fleeing the village, hoping their houses and winter food supplies would not be burned or confiscated.)

While the main forces moved up and deployed, the light troops were already trading fire.

Soon, the fighting spread across the entire battlefield.

Casualties were heavy and both sides had to pull back their right flanks.

Eventually the French infantry, fighting twice their numbers, had to retire, but at the same time, the 60th Foot (Royal Americans)  also had to retire after heavy casualties while the rangers were forced back by superior numbers and heavy losses. The sun was sinking and it seemed that at the end of the day, neither side  would have fully achieved their orders.  

Brigadier Turner, leading his first detached command, was torn between not fully completing orders, even if he held the bridgehead and could be reinforced by night fall, or having the glory of winning his first battle, especially as the French appeared to be on the verge of breaking. At last he flipped a coin and decided to order his New Englanders to charge again. 

Alas, his troops were tired and low on ammo while the small body of French infantry, including veteran skirmishes manning the hedges,  were steady and released a deadly fire causing the Provincials to break and run for the bridge. There was nothing to do but to use the remaining Rangers and the remnants of the 60th to cover the retreat.