The central position in attack: Gettysburg Day 1

[JasonC]

"Fire and fall back sounds easy..." - and it is.

"If McPhereson's Ridge isn't held for quite some time, you can't hold the Cemetery either." - yet I have.

The rebels need to have the wind, not just the time. And whether they do depends far more on how intelligently the Union fights, to put hits on people, and far less on where they do so. Standing too far forward too rigidly against superior forces is exactly the way to fight unintelligently and let the rebels put the most hits on the Union forces for the licks they take themselves. Yes doing that right, instead, does mean pulling out of each position at the right time, not the wrong time. But then that is what they pay generals to figure out...

As an aside, I been playing versions of this game since... well as a wee lad I playtested TSS at an Origins convention before it was released - in the mid 1970s. I think I am tolerably familiar with the pacing of the battle.