Designer Notes: Scenario 5

[MarkT]

Finally someone else to pick on. The Eleventh Corps. After the death of General Reynolds, the upper tier of officers argue over who was in command. The result: Howard, Doubleday, neither, or both,(complicated by the later arrival of Hancock). Since Doubleday is planted where Reynolds assigned him, and this scenario is about the Eleventh Corps, we will concentrate there. Howard, assuming command of the forces on the field, placed his Eleventh Corps, north of the town of Gettysburg. He placed Schurz in command of his corps and withheld Von Stienwher’s division at his headquarters on Cemetary Hill. This decision had a good far reaching effect on the battle, but a bad short term solution to the extent of the deployment area assigned to the Eleventh Corps. They were spread thin, real thin. And to complicate this, Barlow advances his division to Blochner’s knoll. This is where you come in.
Concentrate on what you are to do because you don’t have time to do it. The subtle variants are enough to make this a repeat scenario. Even in loss, it is a game of maneuver.

[Amish John]

This type of scenario background should go in the in-game scenario descriptions.

[MarkT]

Well.... I thought I might pop in to give some insight as to my thought process in all this.
Give people a chance to ask a question or two.

[Zeke]

That would be a cool scenario as this bickering certainly contributed to the first day being classed a union defeat - That and Ewell crashing into the flank of the union position!!!! B)

[MarkT]

The XI Corps position would have been possible to hold with Von Stienwher's division up front. But as time went on there were more rebels arriving than federals. The end result would be a bigger disaster withdrawing through Gettysburg. "what if..."