Battle Above the Clouds: McLemore's Cove

First time playing a scenario from the Western Theater of the Civil War using the GCACW (Great Campaigns of the American Civil War) system.  McLemore's Cove from the Battle Above the Clouds game.  This scenario covers the opening battle that threw the Union in to Chattanooga with the CSA besieging them.

The setup.  Everything circled in red is a possible Victory space.  Those to the right are if the USA controls them and those in the left and middle if the CSA controls them.  The game runs for four days of battle but many of the units can not activate on the first turn.

The first attack is by the CSA against the USA.  I just noticed but there is the Cove right there.  The USA forces manage to hold through this assault!

Negley's boys give's Hill's boys a lesson!

The CSA wins the next activation (or two) and attacks Negley again!

Round two went to the CSA and Negley is routed off the field.

A little more marching and the first day of the battle concludes.  Lines shows some of the marching done on the first day.

The second day sees a lot more fighting.  First up some Cavalry surrounds and then Cheathem assaults Van Cleve outside of Chattanooga.  Not a good start for the boys in blue.

USA mounted infantry make up for the loss by assaulting CSA cavalry and routing them.

Then a major fights occurs with A demoralized Negley holding off a large attack by Bragg.  USA reinforcements will seal off this trouble spot for later activations (the fatigue 2 unit at the bottom marched to join Negley).

The USA get a couple of activations and put Cheathem and his Cavalry in a bad spot.  The Cavalry win the activation and attack but are beaten by the US blocking force.

The USA attack the cavalry on their next activation and wipe them off the map.

The next USA activation after that sees the USA attack and rout Cheathem.

This battle leaves Chattanooga in a pretty good spot but the battle near the Cove is still in the balance.

The Situation when we finished playing for the day.  Most of the maneuver is shown above but there is also a large USA force coming up from the bottom of the map.  In addition further US forces are coming from the left side of the map but have not started moving yet.

Basically a day and a half done in a few hours of game time.  Next game day is the 30th when I expect we will be finishing this one up.  I really like the game system but with some reservations.  Luck is far too prevalent in regards to activations and Flank Attacks.  The bonus for a flank attack is huge and most of the time the ability to get one is nothing more than luck.  Maybe my opponent and I just are not grokking something though.  Regardless the game has a great narrative flow and the system allows us to play out Civil War campaigns at a campaign level instead of strategic or tactical.