Gil R.
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I got to Kennesaw Mountain on Friday, with our very own jchastain, beta-tester par excellence, who lives in the area. You're right, it's an excellent site to visit. And I hate to say it, but it's fun to visit a battlefield with someone who knows FOF, since then a good deal of the conversation can be about comparisons between terrain and tactics in the actual battle and in detailed battles. At some points on the battlefield it was hard not to look around an see hexes. (I'm especially thinking of the path the Union brigade took to get to the Dead Angle: emerge from a forest hex, go across two open hexes in range of enemy artillery up on the hill, climb the hill hex, and face entrenched enemy soldiers.) I definitely recommend the site. And, just today I got to Chickamauga, which is a great place to visit: excellent museum, various points of interest well-labeled, etc. I didn't previously have a full grasp of how that battle unfolded, but after seeing the place it all makes sense. And Lookout Mountain was great for the view, though I didn't have time to walk the trails. Sadly, my driving trip has just a few more hours to go, so no Civil War sites for a while now. But I'll be moving to St. Louis in a month, and have a hunch I'll explore the western theater a bit more. EDIT: By the way, after having seen artillery emplacements atop Kennesaw Mountain one day and then Lookout Mountain the next, I've got us rethinking the rule in FOF that mountain hexes are out of play. For the expansion pack, we might change this. (Regarding these artillery pieces atop the two mountains, does anyone know how they were used? Both mountains are so steep that they could not have been aimed down the slope -- instead, they seem to have been shooting straight. Was the idea that the shell would simply drop on an unseen target at the base of the mountain?)
< Message edited by Gil R. -- 7/1/2007 7:57:54 AM >
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