Fateful Lightning

New Scenario Information

By Chris Perello



Chris Perello put the following information on the bulletin boards last November.

For Scenario IV, use the following setups for both sides (rest of scenario info is correct).

Confederate Setup:
anywhere: Lee
w/any 1 - 10, 15, 16: Longstreet
w/any 17 - 34: Trimble
w/4 5140: 1 - 5
w/3 4738: 6 - 10, McLaws
w/5 1647: 11 - 14
w/2 4339: 15, 16, Alexander
w/2 2430: 17 - 19, 21, Early
w/2 3025: 20, 22 - 25, 27, 30, Johnson
w/1 2724: 26
w/3 2437: 28 - 29, 31 - 32, Rodes
w/1 2438: 33 - 34
w/3 3641: 35 - 40
w/1 2243: 41 - 45
w/3 2839: 46 - 52
w/10 1132: 53 - 57, Stuart
1647: Train
Add'n Confederate Losses: Latimer KIA

Union Setup
Anywhere: Meade, Warren
w/1 3128: 1, 2
W/2 3230: 3 - 6
w/any 1 - 6: 7
w/4 3 833: 8 - 18, 54, Hancock, Gibbon
w/2 4431: 19 - 25
w/1 any Little or Big Round Top hex: 26-31,56
w/2 4832: 32 - 34, 39, Sedgwick
w/2 5531: 35
w/2 3 822: 36
w/1 3528: 37 - 38
w/any 32 - 39: 40
w/3 3132: 41 - 47, Howard
w/2 3428:48 - 53,55, Slocum, Williams
w/2 4223: 59 - 60, Buford
w/10 4716: 61 - 62
w/any cavalry: 65
w/any unit or w/1 4328: 58
4223: Train

Design Note.

Yes, I know Buford and his brigades weren't there on the third day, but I deliberately did not include rules for withdrawing units from the game. There was no good reason for the cavalry to withdraw: yes, they were tired, but so was the rest of the army ($*&-#! cavalry) - and the Union player is not likely to push them off voluntarily. A more generic rule allowing units to leave (probably through a FOW) could have led to some weird results.

Works Setup (if 20.0 is used)

Scenario III:

Union player gets 6 breastworks, which,' may be placed on or adjacent to any Ceme- i tery Hill hex (the Big Hill hexes contiguous with hex 3031), plus 2 breastworks with any unit from formations 1 or 2.

Scenario IV

same as Scenario III, plus trench markers in hexes 3226 and 3227.


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