Lt Col Garret FitzGerald and I had just finished Brawner's Farm, and decided to do a short Antietam campaign starting at 2nd Bull Run, then Chantilly and on to Sharpsburg.
We each had one campaign choice to choose before the first battle, I, as the Confederates, chose 'Hood arrives from the north'. The other option is 'Archer and Pender start on the other side of Sudley Springs', which is supposed to surprise the Yanks but I think against any halfway competent player will just kill Archer and Pender. Hood arrives from the north brings Hood down towards the right rear of Jackson which seems useful. I would have liked a 4th option where I get D.H. Hill and 20,000 men but the scenario designer chose to spite me.
I launched a counterattack with Gregg vs Schimmelfennig(?) and my melee failed horribly despite him being disrupted, me having a leader, and me attacking from behind. Sigh. So, for those of you that know the battle, is it historical that Jackson auto loses 4 guns on the first turn as they are in front of his army and the Union goes first?
I am unsure what else you can do as the Confederates, but I will probably do as historical as Garret allows. If I had to take a guess as to his playstyle (from playing 1 scenario against him!) I think he will attempt to disrupt Longsteets line as it arrives.
_________________ Field Lieutenant Johnson Army of Northern Virginia
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