I think it may be possible to recreate Charles Grant's “Gettysburg Refought” scenario from the article reprinted in "The Wargame Companion". You might remember that he sought to fight only the first day of the battle to limit the extent of the terrain he'd have to try to recreate on the tabletop This had the effect of eliminating such actions as the defense of the Little Round-Top and Pickett's Charge and eliminated JEB Stuarts' cavalry from the order of battle of the Confederacy, making the recreation of the fighting that much easier.
As I recall, he allocated ten regiments of infantry to the Confederates, organised into five brigades, while the Union forces had six regiments, similarly organised, as well as a pair of Cavalry Regiments. Each side has three guns.
Starting on Table:
Union
Brig Buford
8th Illinois Cavalry
1st New Jersey Cavalry
1 Gun
Arriving Move 1 – Cemetery Ridge
Confederate
Brigadier Pender
6th Alabama Infantry
3rd Arkansas Infantry
1 Gun
Move 6 – On the Baltimore Road
Union
Brigadier Meagher
5th Vermont
1st US Sharpshooters
Brigadier Weitzel
12th Connecticut
28th Massachusetts
1 Gun
Move 8 – Cemetery Ridge
Confederate
Brigadier Kemper
7th Louisiana
5th Texas
Move 12– On the Baltimore Road
Union
Brigadier Gibbon
8th Wisconsin
24th Michigan
1 Gun
Move 15 – On the Carlisle Road
Confederate
Brigadier Rhodes
12th Georgia
15th South Carolina
Brigadier Ramseur
27th North Carolina
1st Virginia
1 Gun
Move 19 – On the Harrisburg Road
Confederate
Brigadier Cleburn
A Regiment
A Regiment
1 Gun
1 comment:
As much as I love the "Easy Peasy" rules and enjoy and respect Grant's work, why not just get the names right? The opening of the battles would have seen Buford on the table. So far so good. At that point everything goes to hell in a hand basket. Wadsworth should have the Irin Brigade of Sol meredith at hand which had followed Lysander Cutler onto the battlefield. The Rebs are even worse. Cleburn was fighting out west while Brigadier Kemper fought with the very last Confederate division, Picket, to make the battlefield. I would simply change the names "to protect the innocent."
Jerry
A/K/A The Celtic Curmudgeon
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