How Went the Day? (6 Sep: rules just proof read and edited)

 ****Spoiler Alert***

Really well actually. 

As more Rebels deployed and began their grand attack on either flank, the Federal General recalled what was left of the Regulars to the hill and prepared to hold the line. 

Firstly, I did a rethink last night and came up with a new minor tweak to the rules I was trying to write that looked like it would solve my issues.  The game played easily and quickly with about 2/3 of my existing armies on table, gave the feel I wanted, and had enough moments of drama to get the juices flowing.

Along the ridge, the Confederate left had suffered too much in the early fighting to break through the final Yankee line even though its last supports had been detached to meet an emergency on the other flank. 

Secondly,  it was a white knuckle finish.  

On the other flank, the tardy Rebel brigade finally showed up at the ford and then struggled to fight their way across despite facing a single Yankee cavalry unit. A push across the front from bridge to ford, buckled the Union line and forced it back until only a remnant of a few shattered regiments stood between the Confederate left and the vital roads leading to the Union camps and beyond. Only the hasty redeployment of a few regiments from the ridge allowed the Federals to form a thin line to hold the Confederates away from the crucial road. In the end, it was the brave intervention by a Brigadier to rally the last remnant of one regiment that stopped a break through.   

There is only a both sides of a page draft summary of the rules as yet if someone is interested (<click> here). I'll play a few more games before I think about writing a complete set with engineering, supply trains, amphibious ops and so on. Its also time to get around to naming and labelling all of my commanders and units and making the unit id's more easily legible.

In the meantime, there are some other collections lobbying to use the table on Monday.