Lee & Longstreet Captured

[AJHeneghan]

I have been playing this multi player Gettysburg scenario and an most amazing thing happened. Lee & Longstreet were stacked with a regiment of 350 Rebs in column when 75 of Custer's best attacked them from nine hexes way . One would think this would be suicide but he disrupted the Rebs & killed 16 of them as well. Now for the amazing part. Though the Union cavalry lost all but ten of his men,the attackers were able to capture both Lee & Longstreet!
I always thought that to capture generals all the units stacked wth them would have to be eliminated. It is hard to imagine those two heros of the South grabbed and taken away by a handfull of Yankee horsemen when 350 Rebs are protecting them...any thoughts?:shock: :shock:

[CyberRanger]

I hope this isn't the multi-player game I'm involved in!
Well, many argue that Lee was over-rated. He surrendered and forced Longstreet to do so.:laugh:

[Alex Krolikowsk]

Yer AJ, your MP games must be really interesting :laugh:

Let us know how the vacant places were filled - who take over ANV and two CSA corps. Maybe George Pickett finally will be given a chance to display his virtues! Go Pickett go! :p

[Brevet]

While playing a Chickamauga scenario I once fired an un-manly artillery volley at a lone officer well behind enemy lines. To my utter shock I killed Bragg. To my further shock and great dismay, he was replaced by Forrest. My opponent was amused. :TRUCE:

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

I managed to kill Stuart at Antietam with artillery while he was by his lonesome on a hilltop surveying things and I also managed the same feat with Longstreet at Gettysburg. Both of these were with the Talonsoft games, never been able to get a lone officer in the HPS games.

[Alex Krolikowsk]

Both of these were with the Talonsoft games, never been able to get a lone officer in the HPS games.

The same me. Now I even don't try to fire on lone commanders in HPS games.

[Wolfe Tone]

That sort of thing happened to me in a game of Waterloo.

I was playing against the computer with me as the French.

I saw a unit out on it's own and had a Cavalary regiment charge it. None other than the Duke of Wellington himself captured!:nuts:

[AJHeneghan]

With the capture of Lee & Longstreet (Only Hood's Division & Some of Stuarts boys were present in this scenario.) Stuart took Lee's spot while Hood took Longstreet's place.
What is bothersome though is that 300 plus Rebel units would allow 75 Yankee cavalry to charge into them and grab their two main Leaders at all.
Does'nt seem likely.:rolleyes:

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

Well those were good stout and brave Union boys and there probably wasn't anything those Rebs could do about it. :D

[Mike Letus]

Those 300+ rebs were probably doing what they did best. Either ransacking dead yanks or going through the thrown away supplies.

[garykrenek]

I'm not letting the last two posts go by without response ......aahhh,,,errrrr, oh yeah? Well your momma wears army boots! :p

Gary "Texas Rebel" Krenek

[Mad Cow]

With the capture of Lee & Longstreet (Only Hood's Division & Some of Stuarts boys were present in this scenario.) Stuart took Lee's spot while Hood took Longstreet's place.
What is bothersome though is that 300 plus Rebel units would allow 75 Yankee cavalry to charge into them and grab their two main Leaders at all.
Does'nt seem likely.:rolleyes:

That must have been one hell of a surprise.

[AJHeneghan]

As this scenario continues the Union Commander (Kilpatrick) is useing this tactic of targeting leaders with great success. He just killed a protected Evander Law in another cavalry charge. I go back to my question. Doesn't seem unlikely in real life that 75 Cavalry troopers could charge from nine hexes away then break into a 325 man Infantry Brigade and capture & drag away both the Army & Corps commanders? Kill them maybe but capture them?

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

Yes it is unlikely but strange things happen in war and wargames.

[Alex Krolikowsk]

Right now I'm fighting at Gettysburg and my 19 mounted Desperadoes were attacked by 2XX federals from their invalid corps (ie. cavalry) led by gen Buford. All my Desperadoes were killed and unit ceased to exist but in some way gen Buford was captured:)

It's just a computer game and as in every other game, strange things may happen. I can only hope that leader looses in your game aren't like 1 o 15 in favor of your opponent.

BTW, wonder who is this Kilpatrick. Looks like he's a born cavalryman.
Is this MP game played under SZO banner?

You know, as gen AP Hill told - Desperadoes are like fiddlers, they are born not made :clown:

[Coaling]

General Buford shouldn't have been in a hex which was involved in a melee; he's a division commander and shouldn't have been there to begin with.

[KG_RangerBooBoo]

Amen to that! Division commanders should never be involved in combat unless it is the most critical hex and there isn't a brigade commander and it's the last few turns.