A Most Fearful Sacrifice Solo - Finale | US Civil War Gettysburg Wargame | Flying Pig Games | #3
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- We play the final hour of our full solo playthrough of A Most Fearful Sacrifice, the tabletop wargame (boardgame) from Flying Pig Games that covers the full 3 days at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Confederate and Union forces battle ferociously for Little Round Top.
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A Most Fearful Sacrifice Solo - Finale | US Civil War Gettysburg Wargame | Flying Pig Games | #3 - Ігри
Now when I speak of Zilla Blitz, I will only say he distinguished himself at Gettysburg, during the struggle for Little Round Top...
Ha! Thanks so much for the kind words! :)
Loved the battle report! You narrative makes it even better thank You
Thanks so much, Mike! I'm glad you liked it. I had a blast making it. :)
Exciting ending. Interesting that Vincent’s historical bayonet charge down little round top gets recreated. Thanks for the vids!
It was really fun to play/make. The shifting action of the game make things really enjoyable. Like a sporting match where the lead is constantly changing.
A lot to like bout the game and it cannot arrive here fast enough. Many thanks.
I think you'll really enjoy it, and when you get into the larger scenarios it really takes on an epic feel. :)
Great AAR. Now do the full campaign! :)
That'd be a project, for sure. :)
Thanks again, ZB! What a wonderful series - this last one was especially dramatic and fun ... and I love the added sound effects! Well done and thanks!
Thanks Hermann! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was great fun to play and make. :)
Had a bad day, I discovered you and you're shining, greetings for France and thank you!
So glad it could make your day a bit better, and I hope the rest of your week improves. :)
You had me all inspired a while ago for Eylau 1807 and Skies Abive Britain...yet good as those games looked, I kept my powder dry. Tonight I caved and went for A Most Fearful Sacrifice. Thank you for the great AAR.
Oh, very nice! I hope you like it, it's quite the achievement and tons of fun. And my pleasure on the AAR, it was great fun to create. :)
Thank you for these three videos. I'm learning the game and this helps immensely to put it all together. I cant tell you how much I appreciate those of you that make this content. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad that they are helping you learn the game. These types of videos help me too, as they show all the rules in motion. Enjoy the game! :)
Thanks for the play through. I always enjoy your narration.
Thanks Scot! Glad you enjoyed it. On to the next game! :)
I think I'm going to rewatch all the episodes of this.
I'm glad you've enjoyed them, and hope they are good the second time too. :)
What a fantastic story. I really enjoyed the video and your style of play. Like other reviews, I, too, love the sound effects. Having just watched Gettysburg for tenth time, I had visual images of the battle for Little Round Top. Again, when you post a video, we as a group of friends sit in awe and excitement about to watch another one of your great stories. Thank you Zilla Blitz! 😊
Thanks for the kind words and I'm very glad that you and your friends enjoyed it. :) (I'm sorry it took a bit to reply to this I was on the road for a few days.)
Well what a great series, I salute you Sah! Fantastic ending too.
Thanks very much. It's nice when they end up close like that at the end. It doesn't always work out that way. :)
Enjoyed the series.
When Vincent's unit in 2420 made its Min Move up the slop onto hex 2419 to clear the field of fire for the USA artillery, why didn't it Min Move onto the stack of Union units that were destined to be Assaulted by Robertson? Stacking restrictions? 5 more Strength Points added to the defense against Robertson's Assault may have helped the defense.
Glad you liked it!
What time in the video did that action happen?
@@ZillaBlitz 21:00 near the end, when the Union infantry from Vincent sidestepped up the slope of Little Round Top to clear the way for the artillery shot that was a bust. It moved into an empty VP hex of Little Round Top when it could have joined the other 2 infantry units. Perhaps you were thinking that you had to protect the empty VP Hex against 2 Min Moves by the unit from Laws brigade.
Armchair General:
I dunno, that Take Those Colors is a HOLD card, so charging up into the withering fire of BOTH Rebs seemed a bit...bad? I for sure would have held it to attack the Rebs if they managed to move up and sit on the Hill--as you'd have a good choice of who to do it.
Then Seeing the Elephant, I woulda moved Ward NE so that if Robertson moves onto the Hill, there would be two Union hexes to give defensive fire.
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That said, those dice results are hard to understand--some horrible attacks yield an OPTIONAL Skedaddle which is ignored, then a piddly little (basically) even odds is a FORCED Skedaddle? Just the way it is, I guess...
Yep, I was thinking that a possible strategy could have been to hold both the Rebel Yell and Take Those Colors until the end, although the bonuses they confer can really punish defending units immediately. Lots of different ways to play this, I bet, and I make no claims at being a good player yet. :)
Definitely some wide swings in combat results. I mean, more power and better cohesion will deliver better results on average, but a good attack can go awry, and a weak attack can pay handsomely. Combine that with the events on doubles and the event cards, and it's chaos all about. I love it. In the previous scenario I played a confederate cannon hit a Union ammo caisson, which decimated two batteries of Union artillery, panicked a union brigade, which sent them skedaddling into another Union brigade, which also panicked. Fun times! :)
The CRT is built so that with Fire Combat, it is more likely that a unit will take damage but stand its ground, unless the player opts to withdraw them out of that position (with the optional Skedaddle). If you want to force the enemy from its position - i.e., get it to Skedaddle - that is more likely with Assault Combat. So essentially - firepower to soften up, bayonet to take the position. Thanks!
Ah, yes. That makes sense, thanks Hermann!
For that last play.... I would have done what you did if I was playing another person. Playing solo, in reality, the confederates would have tried to clear the other top hex, so I probably would have played it that way solo just for the fun narrative.
Yes, makes sense for sure. And even if things went sideways for the Confederates the Union forces wouldn’t have had an opportunity to move into the vacated hex. Although I wasn’t 100% sure what all the possibilities are for the Fog of War card that was coming up last.
That was so much fun. Tense right up until the end. I was trying to work out how the game would play with one of the larger scenarios. Do you have a much bigger starting deck for each hour, or is it just more hours played? I'd have thought with a load more units it might be much hard to decide which one to activate in response to a particular card. Hope that makes some sense!
I'm glad you liked it, Custard! With the larger scenarios there are more leader cards in the deck and more of the event cards that you add as well, so cards/turn gets larger as the scenario gets larger. :)
great game play and review. The games does look beautiful but the system is extremely different than what I was expecting, still not sure if it’s good or bad, I am a bit conflicted on it. It’s a Gettysburg game so yes I would certainly like to my collection but I am not sold on the system and make’s me wondering if I am really interested in owing it if I will never actually bother to play with it.
Makes sense, Patrick! That's actually one of the goals of the videos, is to help people make informed purchasing decisions, and not every game is for everyone. :)
The only thing I'd add to this is that the larger scenarios with more artillery and larger force pools have a different feel to them than this small one. I contemplated recording a larger scenario, but then I would have had to cut out a lot of the details. In the end I decided to show a deeper playthrough of a small scenario instead of a superficial look at one of the larger scenarios.
@@ZillaBlitz I can see how that would be, a larger game play including all forces would probably play out very differently. In any case the decision was actually made for me it look’s like the game might have already been sold out on their web site. It is was it is, it was probably not meant for me 🫤
Oh, wow. I didn't realize the Kickstarter was that short. I wonder if they'll have them available on their website soon.
Hey Zilla, apologize for another comment, but...
One thing about Gettysburg that frosts me a little is that this (Little Round Top) end of the battlefield seems to always be at the forefront, while what happened at the same time on Culp's Hill was just as, if not more, important. The 137th New York was holding the right flank of the Union line, and they did almost exactly the same thing that the 20th Maine did - including bending their line to meet an overwhelming Confederate force and a charge that held the Confederates from driving up the hill to the rear of the Union line. But... their Colonel, David Ireland, died during the Battle of Atlanta and unfortunately did not get to write a post-war memoir about the great things he did at Gettysburg. Even today the Battlefield Guides will tell you that what Ireland and the 137th NY did was extremely important to holding the Union line on July 2nd. I would love to see a wargame that covers the bloody battle at Culp's Hill.
Great points. Sounds like an opportunity for its own game, perhaps! :)
You have 0 luck
Ha! I don't know, I feel like it kind of evened out. ;)
Great series of videos. I love it
Thanks very much, George! It was a lot of fun to make. :)
Victory for the 1st, 4th, 5th Texas and 3rd Arkansas!!! Great job, love your enthusiasm as you play and report. I would love to see you play a larger scenario of this game.
Thanks! That was fun to make too. :) I'd love to try a larger scenario at some point, but wow, would it take a lot of videos. :)
Great series! Shouldn't there have been column shifts for Confederates firing into a rocky wooded hex on Little Round Top (or am I reading the map wrong?).
Thanks! I think the top is just rocky? There is a little splash of woods on the east side, but I think because the majority of the hex doesn't have woods that it's just a rocky hex. Not 100% sure here though.
@ZillaBlitz Cool. Whatever the case, still a great video. Thanks!
I thought I remembered reading something about those hexes, and yes, they are just rocky hexes. There is a clarifications sheet that mentions them specifically. :)
We use the same model tweezers, that makes you a wargamer professional!!
Ha! I actually picked up some really big ones for games with larger counters. The ones in this video don't actually work so well for this size counters. This scenario only has a few counters so it works out okay for pushing them around, but the wider tweezers are great for the larger scenarios. :)
@@ZillaBlitz Yeas but those tweezers have a flashlight...I've never used that....
I can't tell you how many times I've been playing with these tweezers in less than optimal light and wished that I had a light. I always forget I can turn on that light. :)
@@ZillaBlitz I would like to play you in a wargame. I would just hope to win!
I'm high on coffee now, going to the gym...
Have a great round of exercise! I'm heading there shortly myself.
Fantastic play by play. Total nail biter! Thank you Zilla Blitz for the very hard work and editing. I just bought the game because of you, and it arrives this Monday. Cheers!
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy the game. I've really liked it. :)
Thanks for the video. Wild ending, back and forth on LRT. I thought the USA had it with that bad roll by Robertson, but the equally bad roll made the difference.
Yeah, I thought as well that the Union would hold the top, but clearly both sides were exhausted by that point. :) Every scenario I've played has this sort of sweeping back and forth action to it. It's really fun.
I'm really enjoying this style of presentation. It gives an exciting narrative of the game, which may not explain all the rules, but it does help give a feel of how the games plays.I hope you continue to do these types of playthroughs. This is the ideal narrative of games I play, when I'm playing solo.
Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated. These are probably the most fun videos for me to create as well. I have ideas for other styles I want to try, but I really like making these.
This is just my opinion on how your game finished, but I’m not so sure that is a Confederate “win”. I think that the terms of “victory” in that scenario need to be re-examined. Perhaps the terms of victory for the Confederates need to be “all victory hexes taken”; and for the Union “control of Little Round Top victory hexes”. Any other result seems to be, historically, a draw - because of the geography of Little Round Top, the units as they finish in this scenario could not still hold their positions. They would probably keep fighting until one or the other retreated or was destroyed. And yes, I realize the time factor involved but I still say that the Confederates still could not claim a “victory” as this scenario ended.
I can definitely see your point. In my mind, with darkness approaching, I could see the side with lesser control conceding the position, but I can certainly imagine the fighting to continue as well. :)
The scenario/game doesn’t show it, but the Union trains were located behind little round top. Opening the gap between big and little round tops created a clear move for Rebel forces to strike those trains.
Edit: should probably point out that in the battle, the Union managed to just hold all of little round top and the low ground between the two hills (after a bold bayonet charge by the 20rh Maine).
Ah, I wasn't aware of that, thanks. It'd be interesting to see how this portion of the battle would play out in the full 3-day battle.
Wonderful report.
Thanks for doing this....I kickstarted A most Fearful Sacrifice. Can't wait to get it.
Awesome! I hope you enjoy it. :)
Your playthrough makes it more likely this game moves up on my Shelf of Opportunity 😉
Oh, do it! You won't regret it. :)
Love the musket firing sounds when you roll the dice. May I ask where you got those? Thanks.
Sorry, I'm not sure where I got that one specifically. I use a lot of sources. I have an Artlist subscription for paid music/sound effects, and use some free sites too, like freesound.org. Sometimes I piece together the final sound effect from a few other sounds if I can't find something I like.
@@ZillaBlitz Well done, it is a small thing, but adds to the fun while watching. Thanks for the info.
Great playthrough. I got the game last summer and have loved just looking at the beautiful map. I am glad you got this to the table. It inspires me to do the same! Right now I'm digesting the German solo rules for Enemy Action Ardennes which looks like a ton of fun as well.
Thanks! The core gameplay for this was much easier than I imagined. Some of the edge cases where cards overlap with rules or other cards created a few questions along the way, but for the most part this was considerably easier than I imagined it would be for someone who doesn't have a lot of Civil War gaming experience. And speak of the devil, Enemy Action Ardennes is my Shelf of Shame game for April! :)
@@ZillaBlitz great! I can't wait to see your play of EAA. I will say EAA seems complex, but once you get past the situational aspects of some of the gameplay, it's fairly logical and the whole chit-pull mechanic of combat is very interesting--as is the well thought out AI for great solo play. AMFS looks great and one thing it has is a kind of immersion aspect with the names of the commanders and leaders etc - It lends to a kind of "role play" that is very fun. I'm looking forward to actually doing a day or even the 3 day campaign... the question for me is always "when do I have time??"! Thanks, ZB!
I know, the time is always the thing, isn't it. :) I'm actually not likely to bring Enemy Action Ardennes gameplay to the channel, although I will be playing the game. At some point I'd like to, but I don't have time to both play and create video for the game at the moment. :)
Great set of videos, thank you! I went through this scenario over the past two days and the Confederates took all three victory hexes. Still trying to wrap my arms around the game system but your videos have been a tremendous help!
Thanks! I'm glad that they are helping, and once you get the main gameplay loop down it'll all come together nicely. Enjoy the game! :)
Is that right, if little round top came on top the CSA could cut the turnpike and isolate the union at the shoe shop ,ala gradstalin ,v 8 not guilty 👍😂
Exactly! :)