Gettysburg-dtg-2001 (or as close to historical as CWG2 allows)

[NOTE:  this scenario is saved from the Editor at turn 11.]

This scenario follows the disposition and arrival times of the
CWG2 package in most respects, although the time clock has been
moved to 07:30 for the beginning of the scenario.  Still,
their are occasional deviations from the Sierra schedule.  Some
of the Union units at the edge of the map are exhausted on turn
zero as a compensation for their being too far north for that
hour; they are there because I changed their turn of arrival in
the editing process [a consequence of changing map dimensions],
placing the division commanders on turn zero is a remedy that
allows subsequent reassignment of the division commanders (more
on this matter below).

The map features considerable modifications
to achieve more historical accuracy, and many details have
been added that are not in the CWG2 scenario map.  This map does
provide an orchard to the south of the Lutheran Seminary, and
Gettysburg does not lose its town square, among other additions.
Topography, landmarks, stone walls, and roads are in conformity
with period maps [principally the 1863/76 J.B. Bachelder map of
central Cumberland Township (Adams County) and the 1858 G.M. Hopkins
map of Adams County] and the G.K. Warren map in the Atlas to the
Official Records.  The map has been extended to the east and
shortened to the south.

Union Order of Battle.
The Union cavalry gets their guns, helpful in assisting in slowing
up the advance of Heth's division [the Confederate cavalry also
brings its guns to Gettysburg].  Capt. J.A. Hall's 3" Ordnance rifles
in the Army of the Potomac's 1st Corps artillery are in Reynold's Bn
in this scenario, so they are available to make their
gallant stand by the railway cut.  Some of the artillery brigades
arriving as reinforcements are broken up into battalions to better
represent the types of cannon employed by the batteries in question,
and to simulate the abundance of Union artillery in position by the
afternoon of July 2nd.  Also, the commander of the AoP's 2nd Corps
is properly identified as Capt. John G. Hazard [NOT G.W. Hazzard].

I have been asked why the AoP has no howitzers in this scenario...
other than the horse artillery (which was NOT howitzers at Gettysburg)
that I included, there are no howitzer units because the AoP had only
2 (two) howitzers at Gettysburg--that is, a single section of these
cannon in J.W. Sterling's Battery, Taft's Arty Brigade, Arty Reserve
(a battery of 4 James rifles and 2 howitzers).

Most of the AoP cannon were 3" Ordnance rifles and Napoleons
[in combination 80% of all cannon].  I would also note that the AoP had
only 6 20# Parrott guns and 4 James rifles (described as 12# in the reports).

I modified the data for the Iron Brigade; that is,
I enhanced their Quality/Experience ratings along with
the ratings for Meredith.  Their weapons were downgraded because
they carried 1861 Springfields to Gettysburg, so that is what they
carry in this scenario.

On July 01, Doubleday arrives marching past Black's Tavern, as he did,
in time to arrive at McPherson's Ridge around 11:00, as he did--just in
time to take over 1st Corps after Reynolds was killed.  Rowley replaced
him as division commander.

One unit from each of the AoP's 3rd Corps appear on the map at the
start because I moved their arrival turn and this is necessary to
allow the Union commander to re-assign the division commanders.
The organization and health data are set to reach acceptable levels
at their supposed time of arrival [the same editing device had to
be employed with Jubal Early in the ANV's 2nd Corps].

Weapons Assignments.
The weapons of some of the brigades in the AOP are downgraded
because there is very good evidence that they came to Gettysburg
with "inferior Austrian smoothbores".  Brigades with a
preponderance of regiments so equipped are assigned the "Prussian
Smoothbore".  What made the "Austrian" muskets inferior was the
poor quality of the metal in their fabrication; that is, the steel
had such poor tensil strength that the hammers would break after
as few as 3 firings, or the hammer would simply not detonate the
primer cap.  Another problem encountered by the "inferior Austrian
smoothbores" was that the trigger springs also suffered from the
poor tensil quality of the component steel.

A similar complaint was made in the case of rebored Lorenz rifle-
muskets.  The Lorenz was produced as a .54 caliber rifle, and as
such about half of them were "high quality" [obtained by the CSA
as a result of beating the USA to the door, and the sympathetic
orientation of many European arms dealers to the cause (and ready
cash) of the CSA--there is also some indication that the CSA
representatives were nicer guys].  The process of reboring the
Lorenz to .58 to accept the Minie ball was not done with
sufficient expertise to produce a quality weapon.

Confederate Order of Battle.
The Army of Northern Virginia is blessed by the appearance of R.E.
Lee.  Alas, there is no way to give him command of anything at
army level; instead, he serves as the corps commander for the ANV's
cavalry division.  The scout, Henry Thomas "Harry" Harrison,
is represented because his information was critical to
the ANV at Gettysburg.  Longstreet arrives where he should--not
behind enemy lines and halfway to Emmitsburg!  Such a feature
in the CWG2 package is apparently designed to simulate
the scouting of Harrison.  1st Corps arrives on the road from
Cashtown in a more rational location.  Also, Rodes approaches
along the Bendersville Road, having passed through Middletown,
which is not on the Carlisle Road.

Some sharpshooter units are provided for the ANV by
converting the smallest brigades within 2d and 3d Corps to
sharpshooter regiments, and in the case of 1st Corps by drawing about
80 men each from the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas Regiments [Robertson]
to reinforce the 2nd GA Regiment [Benning].  Additionally,
Heth's Division acquired sharpshooters by re-assigning the 2nd MS
Regiment [Davis' Bde] and two companies of the 26th NC [Pettigrew's
Bde] to the sharpshooter unit.

The ANV has also brought along its engineers.  Two batteries of
horse artillery from Stuart's Guns were reassigned to Imboden's
Command (McClanahan's Bn) to provide a better replacement pool.

Confederate Weapons Assignment.
In the 3d Corps, Pettigrew does not employ musketoons (a naval
carbine), which are mysteriously assigned to him in all the
package Gettysburg scenarios I have seen.  The references I have
seen as to the weapons carried by his regiments indicate a
preponderance of late model smoothbore muskets, so I gave him 1842
U.S. Smoothbores.  His leader and unit ratings are adjusted to
reflect the effect of "buck and ball" loads used by units with
smoothbore muskets--that is, within 75 yards, it was devastating.
So, his brigade would have additional resistence to charges, and
their impact when charging would be enhanced.

The ANV's 2d Corps (Ewell) is equipped throughout with .58 caliber
rifles.  After the battle of Chancellorsville, the 2d Corps
ordnance officer was able to completely re-equip his units with
"high quality .58 caliber rifle-muskets" captured from the AOP.

A significant fraction of the ANV's units came to Gettysburg
equipped with captured 1861 Springfields and "Springfields" made
in Richmond with captured tools from Harper's Ferry.  At this
time I have not been able to determine which ANV units were
predominantly armed with 1861 Springfields or the Richmond copy
so that I might equip them accordingly.  Of course, the Richmond
Springfield would have to "stand in" for the Massachusetts
Springfield because the original is not available in the editor
for Confederate forces.  It does appear, however, from the report
of the AoP's ordnance officer concerning captured shoulder arms at
Gettysburg, that either the 2nd MS [Davis] or the 13th AL [Archer]
or 7th TN [Archer] had a good number of Springfields.  It is
noteworthy that the same report identifies 84% of the captured arms
as being Enfields, with the remainder being about equally divided
between Springfields and 1842 smoothbores.

Most of the ANV's Whitworth Rifled Guns appearing in the Sierra
Historical Gettysburg scenario have been replaced with
what they did have:  10# Parrott [Tredegar] Rifles and
3" U.S. Ordnance (rifled guns).  The ANV had 10 20# Parrott guns and
4 3" naval Parrott guns (20#), neither of which are
available to the ANV in the Editor.  To compensate for this, in
an abstract sense, I gave the ANV's 2nd Corps Artillery Reserve
Whitworths and added some guns to make up for the differential
in firepower between 20# Parrott guns and the Whitworth.
I also supplied the ANV with some 20# James rifled guns as a result
of averaging the capabilities of a mix of Napoleons, 10# Parrott rifles,
and 20# Parrott rifles.  The ANV had no James rifles at Gettysburg.

A note on Whitworth cannons--there was only a single section of
these guns accompanying the ANV in the Gettysburg campaign [Hardaway's
Alabama Artillery in McIntosh's Bn, 3rd Corps Artillery Reserve]
[further note: a section is two guns]. Of course, the ANV had a
number of Napoleons and 12# Howitzers, but significantly had a four gun
battery of 24# howitzers (1st Corps Res Arty, Alexander's Bn, Moody's
Battery).

I should say that determining a good selection of artillery
piece for a battalion of Confederate artillery is challenging, if not
impossible.  For Alexander's Bn, a 24 gun bn, there were 4 12# howitzers,
4 24# howitzers, 6 Napoleons, 7 3" Ordnance rifles, 1 10# Parrott rifle,
and 2 20# Parrott rifles...so, what to give them?  I calculated that since
there were more howitzers than anything else [8, of which half were 24#'s-
-which should count double or triple, + 6 Napoleons that could
see limited use in indirect fire], I gave them howitzers. But, that
sacrificed a lot of range afforded by the 3" Ordnance and Parrott rifles,
so I added some guns to boost the impact at 5-6 hexes, which is the limit of
the range for the howitzers.

Reference Materials
In addition to the maps mentioned above, the source materials for my input to
this scenario was varied but mostly from the official records, E.B. Coddington,
G.A. Coco, and David Shultz.