I hadn’t had a river battle for a while so I thought that I would get my ACW ironclads onto the table and roll some dice. I thought that it was time for some heavy ships and decided to use some of my big heavy ships so I picked a selection for each force. The Union force consisted of the [Read more...]
Well its been a while since I posted anything on here mainly as things have been a little hectic at home, and what with work and this heat I just haven’t managed to get any gaming in at all. So I thought that I would at least post about the Facebook pages I have set up for my rules sets. The [Read more...]
This is a run through of a possible new scenario for Blood Sweat & Iron ACW river battles and this was also my first chance to use my new scratch-built paddle steamers. The scenario is a simple one, the Union ships are trying to get past the Confederate Ironclads and to safety. The points [Read more...]
Well I thought I would give scratch-building ACW ships a little rest for a while and decided I would try and build a river fort that I could use in my games of Blood Sweat & Iron. This was something that I had thought of for a while as I don’t have anything I could use in my games, I had been [Read more...]
Well more ACW ships are hopefully going to hit the water soon, as I have just finished another scratch-build of two paddle steamers. So this time I wanted to again try and make a paddle steamer but this time with side wheels and decided on two ships that I didn’t have. The first was going to [Read more...]
I have put an updated errors page on the Blood Sweat & Iron FAQ's page of this site, a few spelling mistakes and errors have been found on the ship datacards. Download the page and print it out and replace the cards from the rules. Just corrected a couple more errors and updated the sheet [Read more...]
I felt like some river action tonight, so I got out a few ships and played a river battle using my Blood Sweat & Iron rules, it was to be a fun simple game, just a straightforward meeting battle. The forces for the battle were – Union USS Essex USS Tulip USS Signal USS [Read more...]
( ok technically its a wooden or tinclad ship ) Well I tried something over the last couple of evenings that I haven’t done for a long while and that was scratch building, and it was a lot of fun. I have a few ACW ironclads which I use for Blood Sweat & Iron, but I am a little lacking in [Read more...]
I wanted to get some gaming in while off from work in the lead up to Christmas but knew that I wouldn’t have much time for each of these games, so I decided to go for a real quick battle for each game. I was going to play all three of my games over these days, first would be Stars & Lasers [Read more...]
Today I finished off some ACW ships for Blood Sweat & Iron, I printed most of these over the last couple of weeks and have only just got around to painting them ready for some games. First we have a the CSS Manassas a crazy little ship that looks more like a sausage or cigar than a ship! but [Read more...]