Bloody Big Battles, Gettysburg.

 Though Neil and I are at this point playing this very battle I thought it prudent to post photos of my practice game of the 15mm Gettysburg game using the excellent Bloody Big Battles ruleset which we have used (in different periods) before.

There are quite a few photographs so bare with me here:

                                                        Day one, 1st July 1863.

The battlefield, Round top bottom right, Gettysburg top right with reinforcements for both sides on the edges of the table.

Buford's union cavalry delaying the arriving confederates with Reynolds boys in support.

The purple and red markers donate veterans/aggressive in the rules.

Mostly day two reinforcements for the Rebels.

Wheatfield, Devils Den, Little and Round Top.

Union reinforcements, black die shows they appear on the night move of day 1.

Small and Large Round Top.

Gettysburg and Cemetery Hill with 1st and 11th corps approaching.

Ewell's 2nd corps troops approaching from the north.

Hills 3rd corps.

Confederates closing in pressing the union positions. White rings donate disordered troops.

Union troops withdrawing through Gettysburg towards Cemetery Hill during the evening of 2nd July.

                                                                   Day two, 2nd July 1863.

Confederate troops begin pressing towards Cemetery Ridge, Note union troops have built breastworks. 

Longstreet attacking Sickle's exposed 3rd corps in the Wheatfield and Devils Den.

Advancing Union troops on the Taneytown road heading towards Cemetery Hill

Renolds, still alive!

View of the field on day two.

Sickle's corps crushed.

Pressure on Cemetery Ridge.

A strong Confederate attack on Cemetery Hill and Ridge.

The Union position in the south begins to firm up.

A breakthrough in the north for the confederate troops.

Union troops occupy Little Round Top.

The end for the 1st corps?

Getting pretty desperate now!

                                                                        Day three 3rd July 1863.

A general view of the field on the morning of July 3rd. Both sides must withdraw to cover during the night.

The confederate attack in the north recommences but union reinforcements are at hand.

A final attack on the Round Tops is repulsed.

A crucial flank attack by a union division.

The struggle for Culp's Hill.

The union counter attack.

The end of the game sees the union troops forced off Cemetery Hill and Ridge but the confederate forces are too exhausted to exploit, a narrow victory for the Rebs but back to Virginia for them boys!

A cracking game with a super set of rules, a huge battle done on the table top in a reasonable amount of time with a realistic feel and result.

Dave.