The convention, for all of the venue problems and last minute changes was a success. Attendance was up over last year and we nearly (within $50) broke even. Now for Jeff's input, a partial report of which I only have the last half. The last game I played in was Bob Moon's Sunday morning Fire & Fury, the scenario was the Battle of New Market, and as usual Bob did an excellent job setting up. Looking at the thin initial Yankee line, and the mass of Rebs coming at us; we decided a quick attack, to rob the rebs of their +1 charge bonus, and disrupt their advance. To the guys in Florida I just want to say that I am not the one who came up with this plan. At this point I made a critical error, that would haunt me for the rest of the game, and cost the Union the battle. Having neglected to bring dice, and being unable to find a blue 10 sider for sale, I asked Bryant Williams for one. Now Bryant, being a confirmed Southerner, has all his blue dice professionally cursed, was only too happy to loan me - playing Union - a blue die. I started the game with only one brigade, the rest of my division would enter the board turn four, that was at the left end of the Union line. I decided to change formation from single to double line, and rolled a one, with bonus for being fresh, and corps commander near by I manage to hold ground in disorder. The rest of the union line began advancing. On turn two I managed, thanks to every modifier I could scrounge up, to put my brigade in reinforced line, but decided to remain where I was, and let the rebs come into charge range. On the third turn the reb cavalry was coming up on my exposed left, the rest of the Union line was engaged in melee, and a whole lot of rebs were had just moved into charge range. Picking a brigade in single line, that I had a 3 to 2 advantage on, I charged. The defensive fire roll was a 10, costing me a stand a disordering me, my return fire was a 2. Just as I was thinking I still had a chance: supported line vs. single, numbers, and him being out of ammo, giving me a net +1; Bob announced that he disagreed with the out of ammo rules, and removed all the markers. Fortunately my opponent rolled poorly. Unfortunately I rolled worse. His counter charge was indecisive. And in my next turn my brigade broke on it's morale roll. At this point I gave Bryant back his die, rallied my brigade, looking around I saw that the only company I had was the corps commander. The rest of the Union line had been annihilated. At this point the rest of the Union commanders decided to throw in the towel, without bring on the rest of the Union corps. I'm back again with just a quick note: The current holders of the Traveling Canister (shot) award would like to challenge all Fire and Fury players to put together a team to challenge the current holders of the award. Bob Duncan, any takers? The contest will be held at this year's Wargamer's Reunion down in GA. Back to Dispatch Jan. 99 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com