From my side of the table... The Battle of Perryville...

Earlier this week Alan Perry hosted an A.C.W. game at his house...


This was an encounter game with some hidden movement at the beginning...


I have called this The Battle of Perryville...


Myself...Michael (Perry) and Alessio Cavatore commanded The Union forces...


Nick Eyre and Steve May were The Enemy!


Safe to say that my dice throwing was up to my usual (low) standard...
I moved forward gloriously...followed by an inability to hit a barn door at ten paces...


Thankfully my comrades did mange to hit the barn door (Confederates)...


Sadly not all my pictures were in focus or as good as they could be... so here is what I have...




Sleepy Perryville...

Hidden movement was done using mounted officers... some represented units others were blank..

"Gee... Is this guy for real?..."
"I don't know... Lets throw a brick at him"

We moved splendidly forward on our left flank...

The 'Enemy' move forward in the centre...
Their right flank were all...blanks

Our centre move forward to meet theirs...

The 'Enemy' made a push on our the left flank... they were met by our green and untried infantry..

Our brave left wing being... brave.

More bravery...

Some Gun on Gun action...

More glorious movement on my flank...

As well as untried infantry on our right flank... we also had guns and some decent infantry... and Alessio rolling decent dice... The Confederates were not happy...

Nick made a push on our left flank...things did not look good... That's Michaels cannon pointing at them...

Fortunately I was there to miss with all of my shots and not move very fast...
Then lose a round or two of combat...
My men moved back to take a rest...

The 'Enemy' centre also made a mad dash forward...

We also did some dashing...

Our centre waits to shoot the living daylights out of the 'Enemy'


It turns out that Michael can also roll dice...

Nick decided that the best thing would be to pull back and reorganise... I shot in the air ... quite close to him...

The Confederate centre clashes with our brave boys in blue... it didn't end well for them.

My men missing stuff...

Things not looking very well for the 'Enemy' here...


This was an excellent game with excellent friends...


Both sides pushed forwards with their left flanks...
The 'Enemy' came a cropper on their left flank...meeting unexpected resistance and cannons...
On our own left flank I dashed forwards gloriously and shot wildly into the air..
Nicks men ran out and shouted BOO!... which made my men... move backwards and shoot into the air again...
Fortunately our centre held theirs...


With two of their brigades broken the 'Enemy' raised their hands and ran away... Well that's what it looked like to me as I continued to shoot wildly at, around and above Nicks men... Obviously this hail of misdirected lead gave him the willies and he wisely joined the rush to the rear...


I am so taking this as a victory...
I need all I can get...


All the best   Aly.