I choose the Rebels who had a reduced (had been fighting in morning action) Brigade of Veterans, a Brigade of 3 large Trained units and support from several off-table (on a ridge to rear) artillery batteries.
Union had a Brigade of mostly Veterans (only 1 Trained unit) and the Iron Brigade of Crack units (a juggernaut) with several gun batteries on table.
Rebs had only 2 Brigadiers on table with no higher commanders and so had a couple of units out of command at start, whilst the Feds had a couple of Brigadiers, a Divisional Commander and a Corps Commander allowing them flexibility of essentially four command formations.
Rebs split into a right and left wing with Union defending a central line of fences.
The Iron Brigade were set back on Union right but they had first turn and double-quicked themselves into front line right off the bat.
For Rebel right that was pretty much the death knell as Iron Brigade swept forward crushing all before them.
On Reb left the Trained Brigade twice failed to advance (falling back on rolls of 1) and failed to get to grips at all with this weaker Union wing.
On plus side the off-table Confederate guns done sterling work (despite low factors for long range firing) throughout and indeed 9 out of the 10 gun batteries were low on ammo having rolled 10s.
These caused lots of losses to Union and at one point Rebs had lost 12 or so bases to Union 10 but the onslaught of Iron Brigade and Union guns soon saw Confederate losses rise sharply and we called it a day.
I had the Brigadier on my right killed putting his units out of command and Union right had a Brigadier wounded (lost for 1 turn)
RFF such a good set of period specific rules and played smoothly and quickly (a smaller scenario than usual) with those D10 rolls being exciting and vicious in equal measure.
All terrain and figures (mostly Peter Pig) from Stephens collection
The central Union position
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