Tales From A Texan

Another opening scenario that I liked went like this.

Again I was with a cannon crew and we opened with answering fire to Yankee cannon fire. Our infantry was forming up behind our battle line and they had about twenty Yankee captives in a small pen with guards around. On cue, the Yanks made a break for it, overpowered the guards, and burst upon the scene with the guards' guns and began firing at us cannoneers.

Some of our men had small arms and we had our own little battle as an opening. Our infantry soon recovered and took up the fight, killing about half of the Yanks. The other half escaped and hi-tailed over the hill. The Yanks who were killed, of course, were galvanized Rebs and the bodies were dragged back into some woods where they ungalvanized and, out of site of the gallery, they joined their own units.

The only down side to this was the fact that I had to take a hit and spent the entire battle as a wounded soldier. Some of our dead were carried to cover and resurrected and joined their units. Anyway, I thought the new opening was an interesting variation.