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Re: Outpost III - AAR Thread
This is a bit late--I only got home Tuesday evening and this is my first chance to get on the forum since then--but Brian Luscombe and I had fun in the 89th Illinois Co. C as the brothers Levi and Enoch Coque, otherwise known as the "Fighting Coques". :)
While I don't normally have much use for tacticals, we had fun at this one and the experience on Friday night/Saturday morning of the Federal battalion moving several times and having to sleep on its arms (in 40-degree air temperatures) was something I hadn't done before.
My basic problem with tacticals was evident here, namely breaking up small battalions into company- and platoon-sized maneuver units, which was very rarely done in the Civil War. In several ways the battalions showed accurately being new (at least, the 89th Illinois was recently recruited for the time period portrayed). First-person, while far from being done as much as it was supposed to be per the pre-event general orders, was done to a greater extent than I've seen at many other "phsyical" or "campaign-style" events.
Brian and I spent most of Saturday as guests of the Confederate provost guard. We were well-treated until the last twenty minutes of our captivity, but there's no need to go into that. The situation was reported at the end of the event and the CS command was sympathetic, so it's been addressed to my satisfaction.
That I could tell, logistics appeared to be well taken care of. The issued Federal rations were very good--the cooked beef was excellent--but for some reason the apportionment wasn't done correctly. I overheard Companies A and B issuing two fist-sized chunks of beef per man and one fellow I met from Company A during our time as guests of the Rebels even had three chunks of beef, whereas everyone in Company C received only one. Our fellow prisoner comrade was nice enough to take one of his chunks and cut it in half, giving half each to Brian and me, so we probably had more beef than others in Company C.
Company C was a great group of guys and it was a fun time all around.
Oh, and the road trip was fun, plus we visited Stones River, the Carter House at Franklin, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, and Chickamauga. Dang, but KY, TN, and GA sure have a lot of Waffle Houses and Crack'r Barrel restaurants!
This is a bit late--I only got home Tuesday evening and this is my first chance to get on the forum since then--but Brian Luscombe and I had fun in the 89th Illinois Co. C as the brothers Levi and Enoch Coque, otherwise known as the "Fighting Coques". :)
While I don't normally have much use for tacticals, we had fun at this one and the experience on Friday night/Saturday morning of the Federal battalion moving several times and having to sleep on its arms (in 40-degree air temperatures) was something I hadn't done before.
My basic problem with tacticals was evident here, namely breaking up small battalions into company- and platoon-sized maneuver units, which was very rarely done in the Civil War. In several ways the battalions showed accurately being new (at least, the 89th Illinois was recently recruited for the time period portrayed). First-person, while far from being done as much as it was supposed to be per the pre-event general orders, was done to a greater extent than I've seen at many other "phsyical" or "campaign-style" events.
Brian and I spent most of Saturday as guests of the Confederate provost guard. We were well-treated until the last twenty minutes of our captivity, but there's no need to go into that. The situation was reported at the end of the event and the CS command was sympathetic, so it's been addressed to my satisfaction.
That I could tell, logistics appeared to be well taken care of. The issued Federal rations were very good--the cooked beef was excellent--but for some reason the apportionment wasn't done correctly. I overheard Companies A and B issuing two fist-sized chunks of beef per man and one fellow I met from Company A during our time as guests of the Rebels even had three chunks of beef, whereas everyone in Company C received only one. Our fellow prisoner comrade was nice enough to take one of his chunks and cut it in half, giving half each to Brian and me, so we probably had more beef than others in Company C.
Company C was a great group of guys and it was a fun time all around.
Oh, and the road trip was fun, plus we visited Stones River, the Carter House at Franklin, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, and Chickamauga. Dang, but KY, TN, and GA sure have a lot of Waffle Houses and Crack'r Barrel restaurants!
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