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<font color="yellow">This is a series of Double-Mirrors Turn/Phase Mode maneuvers between Lieutenant Colonel Noftz ANV & myself, Brigadier General Tom Phillips
2nd Battalion/II CORPS Artillery/Army of Alabama, comprising all the short 4, 5,6 & 7 Turn single scenarios from HPS Gettysburg, as well as 9, 19 & 20 Turn scenarios from Day Three, to wit, as follows:</font id="yellow">
<font color="limegreen">1.1.1 Opening Fight - July 1st - Gettysburg 4 Turns After pushing Buford's cavalry back to McPherson's Ridge, Heth's division advances to the fray. The lead elements - Archer's and Davis' brigades - run headlong into Wadsworth's division.
1.1.2 Oak Hill - July 1st - Gettysburg 6 Turns Rodes' division leads the Confederate 2nd Corps' attack on the northern flank of the Union line. This attack strikes elements of the Union 1st and 11th Corps.
1.1.3 Barlow and Early - July 1st - Gettysburg 5 Turns As the afternoon of July 1st progressed Early's division delivered an attack on the extreme right of the Union line, smashing Barlow's division, units in support of it, and the Union right flank.
1.2.1 Culps Hill - July 2nd - Gettysburg 6 Turns Johnson attacks in the late evening of July 2nd. Part of the attack falls on a section of the Union line that was as troops were shifted to the left of the Union line in response to Longstreet's attack.
1.2.2 Cemetery Hill - July 2nd - Gettysburg 4 Turns As night falls on July 2nd elements of Early's division assault Cemetery Hill. After initial success, and without expected support, they ultimately are driven back.
1.2.3 Devil's Den - July 2nd - Gettysburg 5 Turns The Confederate offensive on July 2nd was conducted en echelon. Hood's division led the assault and ran into trouble right away in an area that became known as Devil's Den.
1.2.4 Little Round Top - July 2nd - Gettysburg 7 Turns Elements of Laws brigade, the extreme right of Hood's attack, move over Big Round Top and, along with elements of Robertson's brigade, attack Little Round Top.
1.2.5 The Wheatfield - July 2nd - Gettysburg 4 Turns The en echelon assault of Longstreet's corps works its way to the left. Anderson's brigade of Hood's division, supported by elements of Benning's brigade assault the Wheatfield. McLaw's division weighs in with Kershaw's and Semmes' brigades.
1.3.1 Cavalry East - July 3rd - Gettysburg 19 Turns While the main battle raged near Gettysburg elements of the cavalry for the armies engaged in their own set to east of the town. Stuart tried to turn the Union flank and met with a repulse of his own.
1.3.2 Culps Hill - July 3rd - Gettysburg 20 Turns Early in the morning of July 3rd the fight for Culp's Hill flares up again. Each side launches attacks to try and claim this vital piece of real estate.
1.3.3 Pickett's charge - July 3rd - Gettysburg 9 Turns July 3rd at Gettysburg. The armies in position at the start of the cannonade.
1.3.4 Cavalry south - July 3rd - Gettysburg 6 Turns As Pickett's charge winds down Union cavalry attempts to press the southern flank of the Confederate line.</font id="limegreen">
<font color="orange"> <center>Anyone else out there care to venture their reputations as Battlefield Commanders in any one (or more) set of Double-Mirror Turn/Phase Mode engagements?</center></font id="orange">
<font color="orange"><center> A comparative analysis for posterity... </center></font id="orange">
<font color="red"> Brigadier General Tom Phillips</font id="red"> <b> <font color="orange"> 2nd Battalion /II Corps Artillery/Army of Alabama</font id="orange"> </b>
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