Retreat from Lewinsville

In this hypothetical scenario from The Coming Thunder the Yankee 2nd battallion, 1st California regiment and 5th Wisconsin volunteers are retreating from Lewinsville after another reconnaissance on September 25th, 1861. One of their wagons has broken down and must be repaired before continuing the retreat.

The Yankees are already deployed on the table and can expect a Confederate force from three directions!

Here they come!

The first Conferate formation appears in front of the Wisconsin Volunteers and opens fire.

A second formation is moving through the corn field intending to flank the Yankees.

I move my Wisconsin Volunteers forward to fire from effective range, thinking I'll have time to pull them back before my opponent's Confederates are able to flank them. A costly mistake in hindsight.

A third Confederate formation marches down the road on the other side of the table and starts blasting the Californians.

 With the arrival of the Confederate gun, significant holes start to appear in the Union ranks.

The Union formation collapses under mounting shock while the Confederates are trying to get through the corn field.

The Yankee force morale plummets and its over. Yankee survivors retreat and leave the wagon behind.

Victory for the Confederates!

Wild One Part 1

Wild One

My son and I started a new Fistful of Lead Star wars campaign. This campaign revolves around the adventures of scoundrel and smuggler Lhin Tizzy and his crew. 

The Heroes

Notorious crime lord Zenyatta Mondatta (see the escape from Aniron campaign) has helped Lhin out when his spaceship "Wild One" needed urgent repairs. Lhin is now indebted to Mondatta who "requests" him to pick up an associate on a remote planet.

Mondatta mentions that he may run into Black Sun cartel enforcers who also have taken an interest in this associate.

The Villains

My son chose to play Lhin Tizzy and his crew and carefully entered the abandoned settlement where Mondatta's associate was hiding. Buildings and terrain features had to be searched to find him.

My enforcers entered from the opposite side and started searching immediately.

Both sides moving forward with caution.

Leebar the Frozian was the first to find something: a venomous critter that bit him and injected a dose of poison!

The Black Sun enforcers moved forward quickly with one half of the crew, allowing the other half to do the searching.

Meanwhile the poison is draining the strenght from Leebar.

Blayne mows down Xox with his heavy blaster, while Lhin and Z (Zzz-orh-z-vvm) are dodging a hail of grenades from Kroz.

The poison and grenades are too much for Leebar. He's out of action.

Lhin and Jadh zero in on grenadier Kroz and drop him. Blayne blasts the Black Sun leader Borrit as he exits the building.

There's only one place left where the target can be hiding, and Black Sun is controlling it. Despite losing over half their crew, they have the associate!

But Z steps out of the hover truck and takes out one of the remaining Black Sun enforcers with his blaster rifle.

The last Black Sun enforcer tries to escape but is gunned down by Lhin.

The crew gathers around Mondatta's associate who introduces himself as senior imperial weapons scientist Spitzenfinger.

Who is this Spitzenfinger? What does Mondatta need him for? Will Leebar recover from his wounds?

Stay tuned for Wild One part 2!

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Escape from Lewinsville

More American Civil War from The Coming Thunder, covering the actions of the 79th New York Volunteers and the 13th Virginia regiment on September 11th, 1861.

Union troops are pulling out of Lewinsville, Virginia and must get their gun limbered and transported off table. 

Fortunately for the Yankees, the gun crew deploys first.

Confederates are however already emerging from the woods.

Union troops are quick to respond and soon both sides are moving all their forces forward.

 

The Confederates clear the woods, form up and open fire.

The Union gun crew fires their gun before limbering and getting out of the way.

Their comrades are taking a beating getting into position.

With three leaders constantly removing shock they finally manage to form up and start sending volleys towards the Confederates. 

Confederate cavalry have dismounted, but are now taking fire from the second Union unit.

The Union line on the other side is collapsing under the concentrated Confederate volleys.

They have bought enough time for the gun to escape from the table.

Just like their historical counterparts, both sides claim a victory: The Confederates removed the enemy from Lewinsville. The Yankees succesfully extracted the gun.

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