Designer Notes: Scenario 5
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 12:36 pm
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.
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.