GETTYSBURG: What our live action game found out about Hood moving to the right!
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 Published On Jul 2, 2023

Should General Hood's division have moved around Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg? The 1993 film GETTYSBURG seemed to think so! We decided to test that theory with a live action wargame at the Gettysburg National Military Park and linking it to a table top miniatures wargame. Eric Lindblade, co-host of the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast, leads our Confederate players as they use historic roads to see how Hood could have moved his division to the Tawnytown Road. Can they get there in time to launch an attack before nightfall? How will they move all of their ammunition wagon, artillery and ambulances? Meanwhile, Mark will be gamemaster to the Union team as they try to interpret a mix of historical and non-historical signal messages to try an figure out what the Confederates are up to! This is a wargame like you've never seen before!

00:00 - Intro
01:14 - History
04:06 - 1:30pm Union HQ
04:56 - 3:00pm Hood's Column
08:54 - 3:30pm Union HQ
10:18 - 4:00pm Hood's Column turns east
15:33 - 4:00pm Union HQ moves to the left
18:19 - 5pm Hood's Column at Ridge Road
21:05 - 5pm Union HQ
22:32 - Hood moves around the Round Tops
24:30 - Union HQ is lacking cavalry
26:25 - Hood deploys his division
27:50 - Hood launches his attack

Check out Eric on the the excellent Battle of Gettysburg Podcast at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

If you want to hire Eric for a personal tour of Gettysburg you can reach him at: [email protected]

Tell him the Mark's Game Room sent you!

TUNE IN ON JULY 20th FOR THE SECOND EPISODE AND SEE HOW HOOD"S ATTACK SUCCEEDS OR FAILS!

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