ACW - Black Powder at SWWG

 First game of Black Powder with Nye at a recent SWWG club night. 

Nye hasn't played Black Powder before so with enough painted units for both union & confederate forces, after a year of painting , this was to be a (re)learning of the basics. 

Union & Confederate forces meet and prepare to do battle

Meeting across a fairly open landscape the Confederate brigades all try to form line and advance. The Union artillery rush forwards to take position behind a wall as the infantry columns advance.

The Confederate left flank advances under fire from the Union artillery and infantry.

After some hesitancy the Confederate centre gets it's act together and advance towards the farm and road.

 

Over on the other flank both sides Cavalry are playing out a Mexican stand off to see who will move first.

Under withering fire the Confederate left flank advance falters and falls back. This allows the Union forces to swing around the flank of the advancing Confederate centre to enfilade their fire.

With the Confederate centre also in danger of collapse and the time ticking on the Confederates decide this is a battle they can't win and withdraw from the field. 

As this was a (re)learning game for Nye & myself we flew pretty fast and loose with a lot of rules & concentrated on getting the basic mechanic's of Orders, Movement , and Shooting down and had an enjoyable throw down game.
Other club members who play ACW Epic Black Powder were glad to see it back at club and no doubt we'll be organising some bigger multi player games in the near future.