This is RVinceD's Mechanicsville/Beaver Dam Creek, Peninsula Campaign, 1862. It has a detailed to-scale map, new buildings, trees etc and 2 historical & 3 speculative scenarios. I have added Randomization Lines to give alternate setups and opening screens so that you will at least know what is installed. Mechanicsville is the 2nd day of the "Seven Days". Please post any comments and requests and find more at the Gettysburg Online Society Forum: http://mattslow.proboards.com/ Version 1.1 has a new opening screen and victory flags, additions to scenarios & an erroneous bridge removed. Detached regiments have been removed from the OoB. To install: (unless you are short of hard disk space) make a copy of your gettysburg folder and rename it as Mechanicsville. Unzip into the Mechanicsville folder with "Use Folder Names" and "Overwrite Existing Files" checked. Make a shortcut on the desktop by right clicking on lee.exe, "send to" then "Desktop (create shortcut). When you have had enough Mechanicsville, delete the Mechanicsville folder & shortcut, no need to restore. Graeme http://smgettysburg.webs.com/SMG.htm ************************************************************************************* From RVinceD's design notes: AP Hill, now a division commander of 6 brigades, is frustrated because Jackson has not arrived. In order to not lose any more time, AP Hill attacks alone. His attack runs up against strong defensive positions along Beaver Dam Creek; defenses that Porter's troops have been building and strengthening since early May. Porter's Corps may have been destroyed if Jackson was not delayed with poor maps and felled trees and snipers. At the same time, Porter claims to have had plans to fall back immediately if Jackson arrived (for the rumor was that he was on the way). Porter already had his supplies moved eastward in preparation. Is this claim true? Does Porter's plan line up with McClellan's plan of advancing towards Richmond? McClellan had a habit of visiting his Corps commanders, giving them general instructions, and then riding off somewhere else and leaving his Corps commanders to make their own field decisions. In fact, now that McDowell is certainly never going to join him, McClellan plans to move his supply base from the York River (White House) to the James River (Charles City). So indeed, perhaps Porter was making plans to cross south and join the rest of the army. But why did he take so long in doing so? Was he a diversion as the supply lines were adjusted? True North is SMG Map North-East Getty23 Clearing the Bridges; 2PM. June 26, 1862. Branch uncovers Meadow Bridge and AP Hill crosses. This began about 2PM. I thought about building an early morning sunrise scenario similar to this to speculate Jackson arriving early. However, why create two scenarios that are identical except in time? Variants: Branch arrives on time AP Hill no longer waits Getty00 AP Hill Rushes Forward; 4PM June 26, 1862 Clearing Mechanicsville Bridge and Don't Wait for Jackson Variants: River Crossing is Quickly Handled River Crossing is Slow McDowell Arrives at Laurel Grove McDoewll Arrives at Hundley's Corner Getty02 AP Hill Attacks Alone; 5PM Jun 26th Tired of waiting for Jackson, AP Hill attacks alone without waiting for DH Hill Variants: DH Hill struggles across river DH Hill rushes to support AP Hill Getty05 AP Hill Reinforced; 7PM, Jun 26th DH Hill and Longstreet support AP Hill and Jackon arrives too late Variants: Attack Porter's Left Flank Attack Porter's Right Flank Getty09 Jackson Contained in Valley; 7PM, Jun 26th DH Hill and Longstreet support AP Hill, but Jackson is contained in the Valley This is a bit of a click fest. I think too many units. And it is purely speculative. Variants: Attack Porter's Left Flank Attack Porter's Right Flank As a side note, Johnston planned to attack Porter at Mechanicsville in late May several days prior to Fair Oaks & 7 Pines in an attempt to destroy him before McDowell arrived from the north. This never happened and he concentrated on striking Keyes at 7 Pines instead.