Friday game campaign (game 1)

 

We have decided to link our games into an informal campaign.  The 'Firepower' rules have 6 scenarios so we diced for which one to start with. 

 

We came up with Scenario 1 Battle Lines , 'S' was to be the attacker 

Initially 'S' had the best of the action but in the last couple of turns my Cavalry managed to flank his Artillery and in a stroke of luck overan both units before being  destroyed in turn .

The result was a win for my Union forces , we will be recording who wins and the resulting casualties. It was a good game that could have gone either way,  as I've said before the rules are simple but rather clever - more of a game than perhaps a recreation of the American Civil War but easy to play and got the game done in time 

 

The return of the Friday morning game.

 

Pleased to say after an interruption due to various holidays and 'real life' issues 'S' and  I have finally got around to organising our regulat Friday morning games . Here we see 'S' pondering his next move as his forces ambush my marching column in the centre of the table .

We were using the Perrys 'Firepower' ACW rules which have 6 scenarios in the rulebook - it might be argued that they produce more of a 'Game' than an ACW battle but we have both found that they are fun to play with a surprising amount of tactical choices and the added advantage that it can be set up and played in a couple of hours .

'2 Armies in a Box' markers.

 

I know I said I was not going to add anything to my "Two Armies in a Box" project , but one of the scenarios in the rulebook needs a marker to bring on reinforcements to a beleaguered force. Now you can just use a counter to track the messengers progress , But I'm not having that ! , so I found a couple of spare cavalry figures in my bits box . I cut off the Union figures sword so it looks like he's waving a dispatch paper and the Confederate - I thought a Trumpeter figure would be apt. 

Fifty shades of grey (and blue)

 

I have got started with my new project , I already had a couple of units painted up already. I am just painting the bases very generically with no unit specific uniforms - so the Confederats are in various shades of grey/butternut . (GRR ! I've just noticed the standard of this unit has got bent ! - I hate it when this happens - and EVEN more so when I take a photo of them and not notice it !)

A generic Union Regiment - without a bent standard . There are four Infantry units per side , so I will be cracking through these pretty fast I think.

There are two guns and crew per side all in plastic - here's the first Confederate one .

And here is the Union one . I do like glueing together the plastic Perry figures - takes me back to making  model aircraft many years ago. 

Here is a better view of the two Commanding Generals . I'm enjoying getting these two forces together and will post any further development next week.

 

Two Armies in a Box

 

Many years ago - I was going to say 20 - but I fear it is more like 40 , there was a idea touted in various modeling/wargaming magazines (when we still bought magazines) about having 2 opposing armies in a box and the idea was this limited the collection to what would fit into the box . I never got around to doing this - but several years ago I bought this box off the Perrys , it has sat in 'storage' under the wargaming table , I recently recovered it and thought "Two Armies in a Box" !

The box contains the above models, a cabin, fencing and a set of simple rules - "Two Armies in a Box" 

The box and the rules , which are simple but quaint , the box is a suitable boxfile.

I'd already glued up and painted two of the eight infantry units , so we are up and running ! 

What ever box needs - a label and here are the two respective Generals , I will report back as more progress is made - rather looking forward to this project as it has a definate end in sight ! 

Colonel Lincoln Logge marches into danger !

If Colonel*Lincoln Logge's somewhat eccentric memoirs are to be believed he had many adventures during the Great Patio War, so I decided to try and reproduce one of these on the tabletop. The Colonel leads a small force on a patrol across the Patio .

He has a small group of loyal Patiogonian Indians as advance scouts.

However their every move is being watched by hostile warriors.

Big Chief Escargot Killer has planned to ambush his arch-enemy.

He has enlisted the aid of Army Blue , Von Zeppelin and two units of Jeagers.

The table is set and the game will follow....... PS*. Where the rank and title Colonel came from is a mystery?

A Pleasant Mornings Work.

I usually have batches of figures  based and undercoated ready for painting and I found I have finally got the last lot done so I had to consider what to get ready next . I have several project on the go but I thought I would get some more plastic ACW figures done for my 'Sharp Practise' games , I had bought two boxes of Perry plastic infantry and set to gluing the next two units up. A lot of wargamers are not keen on plastics but I like them , they're cheap and I find putting them together very therapeutic - takes me back to making model aircraft in my youth .

The Confederate unit done , I have completed a Union group as well , I'm going to undercoat them with black spray when it stops raining outside and will start painting them next week giving myself a break from all the re-basing I've been doing.

Sunday Afternoon .

Well it is a beautiful sunny day but I'm bothered by hay fever so I'm inside watching England play in the World Cup and gluing Perry ACW plastic figures together . A lot of people don't like plastic figures because of having to glue the arms , weapons etc together - I find it very therapeutic (I did a lot of plastic kit building in my youth) , I got the boxes off Amazon with some birthday vouchers I was given and they will be used for 'Sharp Practise' . The metal ones are some that have been in storage for a couple of years and are finally seeing the light of day - England have just scored ! . The boxes are very good value having 40+ figures in them each of them and will provide two forces for 'Sharp Practise' - England have just scored again from a penalty ! . I must have painted hundreds of ACW figures over the last 40+ years (and probably sold half of them on) and I never tire of them , looking forward to starting on them and yes I know I should be really painting some of my other projects but what can I say - I'm a wargaming butterfly !