[WEF 3.0 1792] Indian Wars

**Barry Goldwater** · April 09, 2014, 09:32 PM

We'll use this thread to handle Indian battles. Or rather, the one Indian battle we'll get in before the game ends.

**Barry Goldwater** · April 09, 2014, 09:50 PM

Battle of Chauncey

General Amsel and the Legion of the United States have arrived in the Northwest Territory to deal with the hostile Indians active here, and it looks like they'll finally get to accomplish their purpose near the minor settlement of Chauncey. Locals and the Legion's scouts have reported abnormally frequent Indian movements and raids in the area, and it stands to reason that Blue Jacket's forces (consisting of his own Shawnee warriors, the Lenape under his lieutenant Buckongahelas, and the Miami of Little Turtle, with the Huron and Wabash tribes staying further to the west in the Territory as a strategic reserve of sorts) have concentrated in the woods west of the village to strike at the Legion. Should they succeed in destroying the Legion, in other words the only American regular army besides the force being sent to combat the Barbary Corsairs, it stands to reason that the Indians will have effective control over the Northwest Territory, or at least a much stronger bargaining position when it comes to negotiations...

Map

Enemy forces

**EmperorBatman999** · April 10, 2014, 03:32 PM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Key:
Blue line - Sub-legion 1
Red line - Sub-legion 2
Orange arrow - Dragoons

Amsel orders the Legion to be prepared for attack at any moment. They are ordered to wake up before dawn, Amsel knowing that the Indians often attack before the sun is up. He gives this men this order with the explanation,"It is better to wake up early than not at all with your throat slit by a tomahawk!"

The soldiers are to prepare defensive positions along the road and wait for an Indian attack.

**Barry Goldwater** · April 10, 2014, 08:05 PM

The Indian attack comes at sunrise as expected, and the Legion soon finds their positions under rifle fire from the trees or pressured by charging waves of snarling warriors armed with hand weapons and tomahawks. Amsel's orders to wake up and prepare for battle before dawn, coupled with their experience from fighting Bohannon's Whiskey Rebels under similar circumstances, paid off as the Americans unloaded effective volleys into the Indians' faces or held them off at bayonet point. Still, after hardly five minutes the Indians did the unexpected - instead of attempting to press their numerical edge against the Legion in hopes of eventually overwhelming them, they have withdrawn to the woods in relatively good order. Any hopes that they've simply up and retreated for the day are soon shown to be in vain when Indian snipers continued firing potshots into the Americans sitting in the open from their trees and bushes...

Casualties

**EmperorBatman999** · April 13, 2014, 10:45 AM

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Arrows: Path of advance.

"What are we doing standing here, men? We need to push in."

Amsel instructs his men to enter the wilderness, the soldiers to take trails and stick to clearings as best as possible. They are to be ready to respond to Indian ambushes. Cavalry are ordered to work to comb and protect the flanks of the advancing Legionaries. The infantry are to fix bayonets and be ready for close-quarters fighting.

**Barry Goldwater** · April 13, 2014, 12:40 PM

The Legion's march into the woods went swimmingly at first, with only limited resistance from the Indian riflemen in the trees & bushes who always retreated after firing singular potshots, but about a half-hour in - by which time the Legion was well into the woods, and too far away from both their entrance and exit to make an easy getaway - they began to attack in force, regardless of whether or not the Americans in their sights were in clearings or marching through wooded trails. Their riflemen emptied lethal volleys into the Legion's packed ranks to disrupt them before the warriors charged in to engage them in close-quarters combat, conveniently also keeping the US troops too busy to shoot down said riflemen while they reloaded; after a round of furious close-quarter skirmishing, the warriors would pull back to the trees to catch their breath & allow the riflemen to fire again before charging right back in. On the flanks, the American dragoons were rushed by either the Lenape mounted raiders and supporting elements of their warriors, or more mixed warrior-rifleman formations that worked in tandem. While normally the Legion's superior training would have given them the edge, the thick forestry and greater numbers of Indian warriors made this a much more even fight...

Casualties

**EmperorBatman999** · April 13, 2014, 01:55 PM

The light infantry are to find any cover they can and shoot back at the Indians. The line infantry are to fire and counter-charge at the charging Indian melee warriors and then charge them as they try to withdraw, their charge covered by light infantry who are to pick off the Indian riflemen. The dragoons are to dismount and act as additional light infantry. If Indians withdraw from the infantry too far into the woods, the line is to stop and the light infantry pull up and fire against the enemy. The line infantry are to spread out in a looser formation for more fluid mobility in the trees - there is no point to regular formations in the woods. If the Indians do respond to melee and engage in turn, the formation will be tightened up to protect the men.

**Barry Goldwater** · April 13, 2014, 05:59 PM

Given that they are in a dense forest, the Legion's light troops find plenty of cover all around them - it's just that more often than not, they have to fight the Indians already hiding behind these rocks & thick bushes or up in the trees. Those who stayed together with the line troops, unsurprisingly, got shot with them. The line infantry are able to finally gain the upper hand over the Indian warriors in the chaotic melee and push them back, however, and the dismounted dragoons have succeeded in regrouping with the rest of the Legion near the heart of the woods after fending off their own attackers, though nearly a quarter of them have lost their horses. The Indians seem to be retreating in all directions, and some of the Legion's lower-ranking officers are suggesting hunting them down across these woods before they can get away.

Casualties

**EmperorBatman999** · April 27, 2014, 08:08 PM

"Well then we'll just have to go after them then," Amsel says.

The line infantry is to pursue the retreating Indians as the lights move down the flanks left and right of the line trying to detect ambushes and return fire from Indian snipers. Amsel orders his still-dismounted cavalry to join in with light infantry where they are to use fire-and-advance with their faster-loading carbines to shoot at the backs of the retreating Indians. All the officers are warned to be cautious of ambushes and how in this situation it is very easy