Game preview for Sunday 22nd May.

Graham is still on holiday,Paul and Dave are going to Partizan show,so Brian and I are going to have "a go" using Brian's newly based ACW epic figures(hopefully Malcolm will turn up too!)

When we first got the "epics" we thought it would be a good idea to use one strip as a regiment,thus giving us 60 regiments per side-EACH!!!-in theory this was great,and massive battles were envisaged-however it became apparent very early on that 120 regiments "floating" around the board,per side, was not manageable,so we decided to "double-up" the regiments,vastly reducing the numbers(in fact halving them-education is great isn't it?) so having re-based Brian's figures this week,we thought a try-out game would be in order.

This is the table,Union troops on the left,Confederates on the right-I have set the game up to also "test" my simplified solo "red pom-pom" rules,to give a fast and exciting game(??)

The rules work on 3 regiments to a brigade,and 3 brigades to a division,2 divisions to a corps! so what you can see are divisions,which will work together,and give a sense of what it must have been like to command such large bodies of troops-sending divisions to do a job sounds much grander than sending regiments!!!

You will have noticed that each division has its own artillery,supporting as it did!

These represent a battery,two batteries per division-keep it simple stupid!!-I'm looking foward to "rolling out" this game and the new rules.