Historical Miniature Wargames
Backround As the Confederate commanders McCulloch and McIntosh were busy getting themselves shot at the battle of Leetown (and the sole remaining senior Confederate commander on the field, Hebert, tried to follow suite but only managed to get himself captured), the Confederate CiC, Major General Earl van Dorn, was busy … well, no, he wasn’t busy at all. In fact, …
Here is the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern Map PDF containing OB and map for the refight.
Since we’ve been using the modified version of the rules for ACW we wanted to see how the proper nappy March Attack was supposed to work so dug up the board and 15mm miniatures for the largest battle of the Russo-Swedish War of 1808 that we did for our 1808 project. With March Attack we noticed that the artillery ranges …
Here is the Leetown PDF containing OB and map for the refight.
Background The Battle of Leetown was one of a pair of battles fought near Pea Ridge in Arkansas on March 7th, 1862. After the rebuff the Union suffered at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek earlier in 1861, the Confederates had enjoyed a brief period of dominance in Missouri. However, the two senior Confederate commanders, one from Missouri (Sterling Price) and …
Here is the Swift Run Bridge 1862 PDF containing OB and map for the refight.
The “Battle of Swift Run Bridge” was an engagement between two small army corps (11,00 men per side) in 1862 … that never was. Although this is a hypothetical scenario, it can easily be imagined to have been an action on the flank of a larger army in the eastern theatre, or an engagement between two independent commands in the …
This is the first game where we tried the modified nappy ruleset March Attack since for larger ACW battles we needed a ruleset that would be quicker than Regimental fire & Fury. Some rough ends were present here and there but considering it was the first trial run it worked just marvelously!