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...]
Sorry for the slight delay in getting this report up on the site, but illness has been a bit of a problem this last week… I had an excellent game / playtest of my new rules for ACW river battles, it was great fun even though I lost again! We decided just to run a simple blockade running game, [Read more...]
I think these have been the hardest models I have ever painted!!! Well actually that’s needs clarifying… Ok the models were easy very easy, really quick paint job, fairly good finish, and they should look great on the table, but the bases are another thing, they were the hardest things I have [Read more...]
Had a playtest of a new set of rules ( work in progress ) at the club on Monday, five of us sat down to run through a new set of ACW Ironclad river combat rules I am in the middle of writing. A historical set of rules is a new venture for me and a bit of a challenge, I knew very little about the [Read more...]