Cometh the Hour

 Cometh the game!  

Mind you, considerably more than an hour was spent today as I had to "reset and start over" thrice  because the official version of the rules had been misfiled while the various older, familiar variations had not been properly relabeled as retired and were thus mistaken for the approved one until tried. At last I got it straightened  out and the game quickly progressed. Once things were sorted the game took less than an hour to reach a conclusion. Just right for a small, quick, game using a small number of the available forces. In retrospect though,  for these scenarios, I  should double the number of cavalry  and artillery units like I do the infantry since in OHW all units can take 15 hits. It comes from playing Grant scenarios where scenarios call for cavalry units to be 1/2 the size of infantry units. 

The garrison, with their dice reflecting their training and zeal, swiftly fell back and  seized the hill dominating all routes away from the river while the rebels struggled to cross the river and form for an attack.

The artillery duelled while the infantry struggled to cross the river under fire and form for an attack and the cavalry hovered nervously and wondered where the heck their supports were!

The DG's Bodyguard, drove off the remnants of the Rebel cavalry but not without loss. They fell back as the Rebel infantry finally got formed and advanced.

  

As the main Rebel attack went in, the Dominion infantry started to suffer heavy losses.  

Finally, the Voltigeurs charged and drove in the Dominion's left flank.

It was a good effort but too little too late and as the last Dominion reserve counterattacked, the Rebels broke and headed back over the river. The battered remnant of the Dominion  forces watched them go and began to tend to the wounded.  

The version of the rules used was essentially the same one as was used for the last day of the larger Battle of Rawdon Gap in December and they again delivered the sort of game I want to play. Now I need to test their ability to   handle less straight forward situations.