We were fresh from coming back from Fall in and it was time to run another Rebels and Patriots game. Unfortunately, much of my stuff is currently not accessible due to a house renovation issue. Luckily for me, TJ had just bought a hole bucket full of AWI troops. He also volunteered some trees.. With that, the main problem was solved. I could get to my 28mm light terrain box, so brought that with me.
I showed up at my FLGS and started to set up my terrain. I chose the defend the sunken road scenario from the R&P rulebook. Unfortunately, I did not have anything that looked like a sunken road. So, I grabbed some walls and hedges from the game store’s terrain collection and fished up the set up.
We ended up having four players, so I figured out the forces, based on the figures available. This gave us 36 points of British attackers vs 24 points of Colonials.
The colonial troops set up first defending the forward road. They would need to stop the British from getting a unit on the other side road (walled road). The Colonials set up across the front.
The British then set up and decided to go with a pinning force in the center and their mass on the left to overwhelm the defenders.
With that, we got started. The Colonials decided to defend forward and started the shooting. The British returned and were able to mass their units to out shoot the Americans. The Colonials tried to hold for a bit longer and even started to counter attack on their left against the British pinning forces!
It became clear the British plan was coming together and the Continentals decided it was time to retire back to the sunken road, while their counter attack continued to move forward. They were able to fall back in generally good order, taking a few more casualties along the way.
The Continental counter attack began to falter and then collapsed altogether. At this point, the Continentals tried to hold on at the walled road, but there were just too many British and they overwhelmed the defense with some well timed charges by the grenadiers.
The British then made their move by sending the Legion troops across the road and taking position. The Continental remaining units attempted to engage, but this was to no effect. With that, the Brits had their victory!
- Manteuffel