1/72 The Battle of Seven Pines
Date: February 6, 2009.
Scenario: part of the first day of "The Battle of Seven Pines", also know as " The Battle of Fair Oaks "
1st Day - 31 of May 1862.
Battle Order:
Confederate:
Army of Northern Virginia - Johnstone - not present on the table
Left wing - KpGn GW Smith - not present on the table
1st Division - DivGn Whiting - not present on the table
Right Wing - KpGn Longstreet - present on the table
1st Division - DivGn DH Hill (Alex)
2nd Division - DivGn RH Anderson (Adrien)
3rd Division - DivGn Huger (Geert)
Union:
Army of Potomac - McClelllan - not present on the table
II Corps - Gn Sumner - present on the table
1st Division - Gn Sedgewick (Roland)
2nd Division - Gn Richardson (Dirk)
IV Corps - Gn Keyes - present on the table
1st Division - Gn Couch (Siegfried)
2nd Division - Gn Casey (Kristof)
The Confederates outnumbered the Federals in number of figures, as it was their goal to crush the Federal left wing of the army of the Potomac. We played for 3 hours, and most of the players not used to Fire & Fury, mend we didn't do that many turns resulting in the battle not finished. When we stopped Kristof on the left wing had stopped Alexes advance, and even took the offensive. Centre left, Siegfried stopped Adrien with a daring offensive move with one brigade pushing Adrien to spent more brigades at that point which couldn't be used to give pressure on the defensive line of Siegfried. Two of Adrien brigades went trough some corn fields to avoid this brigade but lost time marching trough this difficult terrain. On the right, both sides had their setbacks and victories, with no clear result yet. Adrien has painted all figures, some are from Hät, some are metal figures. As it is the beginning of the war a number of the "blues" have indeed grey uniforms and vice versa. Even a Scottish brigade with the kilt.
Regards
Dirk Donvil
Belgium.
Many thanks to Mr. Donvil.