3mm ACW

[Leman (Andy)]

I suppose this is really an offshoot of Hammerin' Iron, but it's not to do with the rules. One of my favourite rulesets is Chris Pringles' Bloody Big Battles. I have tried a couple of his ACW scenarios with my 15mm figures and found them very enjoyable, but then I remembered I had bought some of the 3mm figures for Hammeri' Iron, so I thought how spectacular the BBB scenario for Shiloh would look in 3mm. Checked the price of the 3mm blocks and concluded I would be able to do this for a very reasonable outlay, e.g. the extra infantry for BOTH sides will come to £33. I would need some extra artillery and a USS Tyler to complete things, and I already have a USS Switzerland to bring Grant down river. Oh yes, another new project.

[SimonC]

What sort of footprint will your game have at this scale? 

thanks
Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

Admittedly the Switzerland is not the Tigress, but it's a reasonable proxy. I might as well put another paddle steamer in as well to represent Buell's troops arriving.

I am intending to play this game using Bloody Big Battles. The scenario (available on the Yahoo Group site) is a 4'x2.5' table, so quite small. All bases will be 30x20mm. As an example Hardee's corps is 7 bases plus one artillery base. I will be using one block of infantry/cavalry/artillery/ skirmishers per base. The skirmishers will be representing dismounted cavalry.

[SimonC]

I'll be interested to see it

Simon

[Leman (Andy)]

Will pop something up on this thread as soon as I have my first units of Hardy's corps ready to photo. Likely Sunday as out walking all day tomorrow.

[Leman (Andy)]

Well, time to see if I can post onto this thread. If successful, these are my first three bases of Hardee's corps. Incidentally my stuff to complete this project arrived yesterday so I have immediately got stuck in to doing the rest of Hardee's corps plus Forrest's mounted and dismounted cavalry.

[Leman (Andy)]

Progress so far with the 3mm Shiloh project. I am now more than slightly halfway through the Confederate army for the BBB scenario.

[Sean Clark]

Excellent work!

[Leman (Andy)]

Things are coming on  apace with this project now. The Confederate army is complete and I am now into the Union troops. Here is the Confederate army with a couple of close ups.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very nice!

[Leman (Andy)]

Cheers Colonel. PP will be getting another honourable mention as I've been asked to write an article about 3mm ACW gaming for the ezine ACW Gamer.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Congratulations, Leman.

Is that a freebie ezine you could link to from here, or does one need to pay for access?

[Leman (Andy)]

It is one that has a subscription, but is very reasonable. Individual copies can be bought through Wargame Vault, or a slight saving may be made by getting a year subscription of $12 for four issues. The website is:

www.acwgamer.com

[Colonel Kilgore]

Thank you Leman. Please let us know when you've completed your article!

[martin goddard]

The bigger bases are an excellent idea for tactile reasons.
Roads and rivers might be a problem due to being knocked about?

have you seen the material ona frame stretched type scenery that Weigal(?) uses for his napoleonics?


Very very nice ACW old chap


martin