Falls Church

A group of 1st New York cavalry runs into a dug in force of Confederates at Falls Church, November 27th, 1861.

The Confederates are waiting for the Yankees in a rifle pit.

A group of Confederate Cavalry is nearby.

 Here they come.

The Yankees approach (but are unaware of the Confederates).

Before they become aware of the Confederates, the Confederates open fire. The Yankees are lucky to survive the first volley without men getting killed, but the card sequence favours the Confederates and they are hit again and again.

Dismounting makes them more difficult to hit, but shock keeps accumulating.

And then first one group breaks, fleeing through the other group which also breaks.

To make matters even worse, the tiffin card comes up first (removing all broken units from the table).

Game over.

The Yankees didn't fire a shot. The Confederates didn't get a scratch.

The lazy conversion from Sharpe Practice 1 to Sharpe Practice 2 didn't work for this scenario. We should have allowed the Yankees to spot or let the Confederate infantry have poor fire discipline or something to at least give the Yankees a chance to react before receiving a deadly volley.

Then again, I could have probed with one group of Yankee cavalry and have the other group dismount, instead of cantering down the road with the lot.