I was going to do some painting of the last few ACW ships I have but I ran out of basing card so a picture of the ships will have to do for now, three new simple 3D prints and a long lost USS Commodore Morris ( from Peter Pig ACW range ) I only found this a few days ago hiding at the back of one of [Read more...]
I managed to get a quick game using my ACW ships today, just wanted something simple so did a “run rabbit run!!” type scenario. Basically the Confederates had the job of chasing one lightly armoured Union ship while it tried to survive and the other Union ships had the job of shielding it as best [Read more...]
As I am stuck here in doors for the foreseeable future, I thought I would get a solo game of ACW Ironclads in while I had the chance. I thought that I would just go for a simple meeting engagement between two forces with about 1800 points each, the forces are as follows – Union USS [Read more...]
I have finally managed to get these rules finished, nearly two years in the writing and they are now done. Blood Sweat & Iron is a simple American Civil War Ironclad river actions rule set, it uses a very simple combat system to allow you to play battles within a couple of hours. You can [Read more...]
Yes that’s right, an ACW game of find the lady… although in this case it was find the President!! Mr Abraham Lincoln was travelling along what should have been a safe river when his convoy runs into a Confederate patrol, the Union ships try to make a run past these two ships but they run straight [Read more...]
I had a great fun game on Monday night, a friend and I played another game of my new ACW Ironclad rules set. We just did a simple meeting engagement on a stretch of river somewhere maybe along the Mississippi, we used about 1500 points per side, the list of ships was – The Union force was [Read more...]