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A small ACW encounter features on my blog currently. Last time I posted on the period it elicited no response I recall. I live in hope...not expectation.

It's a very splendid looking game, and very attractive toys.

Iain

That is a good looking game, mate, and a draw seems a fair result. Which rules do you use? The basing looks like Johnny Reb, but the reference to a unit being "Whipped" is new to me.

Spanner wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:33 pm That is a good looking game, mate, and a draw seems a fair result. Which rules do you use? The basing looks like Johnny Reb, but the reference to a unit being "Whipped" is new to me.

Black Powder with some additions from Glory Hallelujah and bits of house rules when we remember them.

Penda wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 10:08 pm Black Powder with some additions from Glory Hallelujah and bits of house rules when we remember them.

Thanks, Penda. Not really familiar with either BP (played a couple of SYW games using it) or GH (never heard of it). But the mix seems to have given a good game.

"when we remember them.". Trying to remember rules? Mate, I have trouble remembering what month it is.

I've had another look. What make are the figures please? They look very cute.

I'm tempted to guess Dixon.

E

Spanner wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:45 pm Not really familiar with either BP (played a couple of SYW games using it) or GH (never heard of it).

"Glory Hallelujah" is the ACW supplement for Black Powder, which tweaks the rules to make them more appropriate for that conflict. There are similar supplements for F&IW/SYW ("Last Argument of Kings" and "Dark and Bloody Ground"), AWI ("Rebellion"), Napoleonics ("Albion Triumphant I & II" - Peninsula and 100 Days, respectively - and "Clash of Eagles" - 1812), and Colonial ("Zulu" and "Blood on the Nile"). Having not initially been a fan of BP, I have to say I've warmed to it somewhat, after doing reasonably well in a recent Napoleonic event.

Excellent stuff once again, Penda!

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:52 am I've had another look. What make are the figures please? They look very cute.

I'm tempted to guess Dixon.

E

They are almost entirely Dixon Miniatures, bar a battery of Foundry Union Artillery in Hardee hats, two Old Glory NCOs, one 1st Corps officer and regiment of Sash & Sabre infantry and another of Crusader Miniatures. There are one or two Redoubt Confederate mounted Generals - on Dixon horses though. This is about half my collection.

Penda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 5:30 pm

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:52 am I've had another look. What make are the figures please? They look very cute.

I'm tempted to guess Dixon.

E

They are almost entirely Dixon Miniatures, bar a battery of Foundry Union Artillery in Hardee hats, two Old Glory NCOs, one 1st Corps officer and regiment of Sash & Sabre infantry and another of Crusader Miniatures. There are one or two Redoubt Confederate mounted Generals - on Dixon horses though. This is about half my collection.

Thanks for that. They (Dixon) make charming units.

E