Comparing some ACW rules

[Norm]

I have been looking at 4 rule sets for mechanisms that reflect the fire / charge process of a regiment attacking another regiment.

Blog LINK

http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com/2021/04/acw-rule-comparisons.html

[Leman (Andy)]

Made for an interesting read. I may give it a go with some of the rules on my shelf - FoB2 and Civil War Battles as well as Black Powder.

[Leslie BT]

Interesting comparison, what happened to the Civil War Battles section, I could not find it even through the figures and basing was for CWB.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Interesting experiment, Norm, thanks for posting the link. You're always going to get questions if you post such articles here and haven't't included the relevant RFCM ruleset  .

Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

TBH, I got the impression reading Norm's article that he assumed folks on this forum would be familiar as to how CWB worked. Wouldn't mind giving it a go myself though as I haven't played CWB for a few years, and it is a brigade game and not a regimental level game.

[Norm]

I have CWB (Peter Pig) and Rank & File (Crusader Miniatures) and GHQ's Macro ACW rule set on the shelf. All justified a place at the table, but the longer my articles, the more likely it becomes to loose audience!

[Colonel Kilgore]

I have CWB (Peter Pig) and Rank & File (Crusader Miniatures) and GHQ's Macro ACW rule set on the shelf. All justified a place at the table, but the longer my articles, the more likely it becomes to loose audience!

It sounds like there's meat for a second article there Norm! Same set-up, same duce throws?

Simon

[Norm]

Yes indeed, I wasn't sure about the fixed dice rolls, but on another forum, someone said using something like the fixed dice sequence is a 'thing' used in analysis, so that was a bit of luck :-)

I posted the link here mainly because I had used Peter Pig figures .... and they do look very nice :-)

[Westie]

Nicely painted and based Peter Pig figures, indeed, Norm.