Williamsburg Battle Report for Brother against Brother

[zakblood]

8.40am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army waits and holds as the federal army approaches the fort and tried to assault it, next turn will either be heavy fighting or a faint or probe or change of direction so i sit and wait as all the cards have been used and played, my hands are tied and now i must wait and see my plans unfold, hopefully how i want them to be.

I send out scouts and check the flanks, and still nothing heard from my cav scouts either, mind you no reports means no action.

[zakblood]

9am and the Federal army assaults the fort with support now from Taylor's Brigade and the gun batteries move up to support in earnest.

[zakblood]

9am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army rallies it men inside the fort and holds against the next attack as it see more unit appear on the field to support the federal assault,i send out scouts again to see if any new units are coming from elsewhere,but again none are spotted as yet.

[zakblood]

9.20am and the Federal army continues to assaults the fort and moves it units right up next to it and does close quarter fighting, while it brings around Taylor's brigade to support the assault from the right flank, my gun batters move closer to the fort and change to assault brigade orders to do more damage

[zakblood]

9.20am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army keeps up the pressure and rallies it men in the fort and holds it position against the onslaught the federal army throws it's way, i send out 3 scout units and again have nothing to report, no enemy found.

Jenkins Brigade take the brunt of the fighting in the fort, with support from the guns they hold, but there morale starts to fall.

[zakblood]

9.40am and the Federal army starts to waiver as it hits a brick wall in the fort so will try one more push then will withdraw and rally the men and reform my lines

[zakblood]

9.40am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army continues to keeps up the pressure on the attackers at the fort, but my morale is falling and i'm not sure how much longer i'll hold, before some of my units will rout and retreat.

seem the US army in the one to be weakening first, as i get one of there units to panic

[zakblood]

9.40am end of CSA turn report,

[zakblood]

10am, as one of my units rout i withdraw from the fort before more unit buckle under the pressure

[zakblood]

10am as my units starts to waiver i issue a withdrawal brigade order to my men at the fort and retire to rally my men until i have more reinforcements as the fort atm is too tough for the units i have, i rally my routed unit so i can move it back then rally it some more in safety

[zakblood]

10am, Berry's 3rd Brigade and Thompsons 3rd Artillery arrive as reinforcements on the Yorktown road, so will march them to the fort and again assault it when they are in play.

[zakblood]

10am end of CSA turn report, Pickett's 3rd brigade arrives as reinforcements and is rushed in to the fight at the fort, with the rain still beating down it lessen the losses for both sides in all but close combat it seems

[zakblood]

10.20am, i continue my fighting withdrawal from the fort and rally my men as i go backwards

[zakblood]

10.20am end of CSA turn report, the Federal units retreat from the fort, i send out scouts to check there progress as i move low morale units around and replace with fitter ones before Pickett's brigade reaches the front, while the US retreats i change orders to all brigade not marching to rally to recover lost morale.

[zakblood]

10.40am as the withdrawal goes in to full swing the fighting quietens down and the long march of my reinforcements along the Yorktown road gets a boost with issuing a brigade speed command to them.

[zakblood]

10.40am end of CSA turn report, as i rush to bring in Pickett's Brigade and change orders from my men to rally mode and try and rest and recover them while the US retreat. I send out again 3 sets of scouts to look for the other side at both the flanks and check on the movement of the units fleeing the fort attack.

[zakblood]

11am again i get a boost of speed with my reinforcements along the Yorktown road, as again i get a divisional boost of speed point to spend and use it there, while more of my men in that area unlock and will be available next turn to also bring in to the fray with Birney's Brigade arriving.

The Slow withdrawal from fighting at the fort gets my units out of harms way and i change there orders to rally while i wait for my next set of reinforcements to help me take the fort, some units either failed to get the message of it wasn't understood so failed to move away from the fort and was kept in harms way a while longer, so i will need to re do there commands again next turn if i wish to keep them in the fight.

[zakblood]

11am end of CSA turn report, my reinforcement reach the fort and change orders to brigade advance for now, with over 90% of my units now in rally mode the fighting dies down and i wait to recover my strength and bring Pickett's fresh Brigade in to line

[zakblood]

11.20am, Birney's Brigade gets bogged down in the rain and mud on the Yorktown road, there's just too many units using one road now and that is making it really slow going to bring up supplies and reinforcements at anything other than a snails pace atm.

While at summer HQ camp, Hancock's 1st Brigade unlocks and goes off on it's long march to cub creek dam and tries to scout out the right flank and attack the fort from there.

All my units withdrawing at the fort and retreated and placed in to rally mode to recover while they find better ground to hold while the rest of the Brigades are brought up.

[zakblood]

11.20am with Pickett's fresh troops being put in to my second line at the fort, the rest of my units are still in rally mode to recover for now, again i send out 3 sets of scouts