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The last unit of Hildebrand’s brigade was also somewhat attritted, but not retreated or destroyed. Another similar attack is set up. More units are in time to join this time.

The attacks against Miller’s brigade succeeded in eliminating one unit and retreating the other. Now those successes can be exploited.

The attack against Hildebrand’s brigade also succeeded, retreating the unit. Some exploitation is now possible.

The success against Miller’s brigade has allowed some exploitation. Prentiss’s remaining infantry are close to surrounded.

Exploitation against Sherman’s division has resulted in the pocket being more securely surrounded. Also, another RBC against the artillery unit evaporated it.

Finally, I made some changes to further entrap McDowell’s brigade. I’m hoping I can keep the artillery and second regiment from escaping.

This shot shows the start of the Union turn. Everything has been released from reserve. Note that the Union 1st Division might be thought to have an opportunity to try to rescue some of the trapped forces. But, I consider that to be throwing good money after bad. They will fall back to a safer deployment.

This shot shows the Union move. 1st Division has fallen back, while 4th Division has moved forward to the sunken road. Only one of the trapped units even tried to escape, and didn’t get far.

Turn 5 (10:00am)

Prentiss’s infantry is now completely surrounded. Now we have to reduce the pocket.

Similarly, Sherman’s units now must be reduced.

Reduction against Prentiss continues.

Two pockets of Sherman’s division are eliminated. Work now shifts to the last few.

Prentiss’s infantry is now stuffed into a single hex and fully surrounded. Next turn should finish it.

Work continues against the remaining pockets of Sherman’s division.

At top, see that the remainder of Sherman’s division has been forced into a single hex, like Prentiss’s infantry. The Union continues to form its main line of resistance. Note that it makes full use of the sunken road.

Before proceeding, I want to point out a bug I discovered here. Note that one of the Union regiments has been subdivided by combat. They are all shown as unsupplied (black square) as they should be. But when I recombine them…

The recombined unit is now shown, incorrectly, as supplied! Actual combat results incurred in the following turn confirm that this isn’t just a display issue. The unit really is treated as supplied. You can imagine the exploitation this bug could generate. It will need high priority on the bug list as soon as I can get to it. Otherwise, it makes no other impact on this game. Now, back to the report.

Turn 6 (11:00am)

Attacks are set up on the remaining two pockets.

This shows the results against Sherman’s division’s pocket. This is the double benefit of pocketing defenders: Not only are all defenders eliminated due to lack of a retreat path, but all losses go to the dead pile. None returns to the pools.

And here are the results against Prentiss’s pocket. Note that a slight number were returned to the pools due to the recombination bug above. This is proof that the unit really was treated as if it was supplied. But a huge number were eliminated cheaply.