Swamp Fox - Game 6

We recently played scenario 6 from the Swamp Fox campaign book by the Too Fat Lardies.

Situation

By November 1780, Marion was beginning to test the defences of Georgetown with the hope of wearing down the British garrison. On the 15th of that month, a party from his force under Major Hugh Horry encountered a force of Loyalists under Captain James "Otterskin" Lewis of the Georgetown regiment which was busy butchering cattle at the White Plantation by way of feeding the garrison while punishing the White clan for the support for the forces of revolution.

The Loyalist skirmishers were scattered around the plantation with the militia inside the main house. Miss White was entertaining the officers just outside of the main house.

The Rebels entered the table from the left hand edge with some skirmishers managing to get to the edge of the northern field,

where they encountered some Loyalist skirmishers. After a brief firefight, the Loyalists took to their heels.

Meanwhile, near pandemonium was occurring in the plantation houses, with the militia pouring out of the buildings and the offcers running to their respective commands.

The Loyalist skirmishers in the southern enclosure spotted some Rebels advancing in the nearby woods and managed to wound their leader, who in a moment of madness stepped infront of his own men and promptly took a musket ball in the back of the head.

The Loyalists were starting to get their troops into some semblance of order,

when Major Hugh Horry arrived with the Rebel veteran militia.

The veteran militia soon forced the Loyalist militia to retreat from the plantation house,

and turned the bullet ridden house into a blazing wreck. The White family sadly looked on as their home burned.

Taking fire from the veteran militia, the skirmishers in the south decided to retire, but unfortunately they didn't manage to get themselves over the enclosure fence.

However, some friendly militia turned up to help out.

The Loyalists were managing to hold out whilst a group of skirmishers were busily getting one of the wagons to safety. However, nearby musket fire resulted in another building catching fire.

Unfortunately, for the skirmishers in this building, The Tiffin card came up resulting in a chapter end and the building collapsing, killing the sergeant and most of his men.

The Loyalists were managing to push the veteran militia back,

but were taking significant casualties themselves. At this point the Loyalists, having saved one wagon, decided to leave the field, leaving Miss White to look on at what was left of the once beautiful plantation.