Antietam, The attack on the Bloody Lane 1862

This post looks at the playing of the Sunken Lane introductory scenario from the Pickett’s Charge rule set written by Dave Brown and published by Reisswitz Press, using his rules.

This is a well known action that occurred during the Battle of Antietam. The scenario involves 17 Union regiments and 16 Confederate regiments, with each side also having a couple of artillery batteries.

The game was played with 12mm Kallistra figures in a space roughly 6’ x 4’. Units are regiments formed from two bases, giving a unit frontage of 80mm.

Please use the ‘read more’ tab for the rest of this post, which has an AAR and then a discussion on some of the aspects of the rules.

ACW rule comparisons

This post takes a very small action of a Confederate regiment attacking a Union regiment that is defending some higher ground and looks how four different sets of rules treats the situation.

It is not so much a serious analytical post, rather, it is just a bit of fun that highlights some differences and allowed a bit of wargame action on a self indulgent Saturday afternoon - and why not!

For the rest of the post that looks at four rule sets, please use the ‘read more’ tab.