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In relation to my earlier Napoleonic's thread, does anyone game Civil War? Back in my younger days I played Johnny Reb 2nd Ed. published by the now defunct Game Designers Workshop (not to be confused with Goobers Workshop of Warhamster and Warhamster FirtyK infamy.) We used Ertl 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures for the Infantry and later IMEX figs for the Artillery and Cavalry. Our first campaign was the Western Theatre consisting of Missourri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Naturally everybody, being southerners, wanted to play the Rebs so we rolled dice to see who would play Billy Yank. I along with three others drew the Union. We fought several Battles from historical like, Shiloh, Chattanooga, and Chickamauga to hypothetical Second Baton Rouge, Pine Bluff, and Little Rock. All in all it was a fun campaign and a nice rulesystem.
So if you do play ACW what rulesystem do you use and what is your favorite scale? Salut and yeeehaaa y'all!
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| I played an online game for a while but the AH boardgame always looked good to me, but I guess the local stores do not figure an American Civil War game would sell well...LOL but the board is configurable so you can recreate a dozen or so battles...I have often thought about ordering one but it would cost me about $70 so I never bothered |
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28mm, and I've been using the WAB Old west Alamo rules, but I may be switching to Too Fat Lardies rule set.
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I played ACW extensively. 15mm all the way. I sold off my pinted armies a while back, but still have hundreds if not thousands still in the bag (old glory, stone mountain, minifigs, battle honer etc.) or primed, just too much other stuff to do now.
Fire and Fury was the rule set I decided on which I believe is still published. Fast moving and easy enough with out endless modifiers and record keeping.
At the FLGS we played a set called Fields of Honor which basically covers entire 19th century including ACW. Good rules although we used many houserules. It is out of print, but FLGS bought the rights and was planning a reprint with the many house rules they developed. It was fast moving enough, but could get into ultra detail if you wanted to include thing like even an eclipse.
I miss my ACW, but not all the painting, so AAM/WAS has filled the void for now.
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I played a civil war baord game. Kind of reminded me like AA. It came with really cool looking wooden dice.
As for a miniatures game, no.
Though I have always wanted to play with some Virginians and play an audio clip from the movie Gettysburg with the soldiers shouting "Virginia! Virginia!"
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| Quote: | | I miss my ACW, but not all the painting, so AAM/WAS has filled the void for now. |
Yeah Yankee blue can get downright monotonous. The only exceptions were the Iron Brigade aka the the Black Hats, Irish Brigade loved their Regimental colors, New York Highlanders, and Zouaves. Another unit I discovered recently is a California unit, the Sacramento Hussar's. That would be a very interesting unit to paint up.
Rebs have a little more variety as more often than not many wore civilian clothing versus uniforms. You also have butternut and various shades of gray. The most fun to paint are the Louisiana Tigers and the New Orleans Washington Artillery.
Salut y'all!
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I would love to get into this subgenre of wargames. I just don't know where to start or which games are worthy of playing. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Also, if anyone can direct me to some good Independence War games, it'd also be much appreciated.
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Too Fat Lardies (ACW and AWI Rules)
http://toofatlardies.co.uk/
Skirmish scale, easy to play and fun. 28mm
Perries (plastic ACW troops)
http://www.perry-miniatures.com/
Stunningly good plastics in 28mm, excellent metal troops. Good prices, especally on the plastics.
Old Glory (Metal for both)
http://www.oldglory25s.com/
Decent metal troops, not outstanding quality but the price is very good, even better if you join the old glory army. Also 28mm.
Others can speak to their favorite scale/rules, that should get you started if you want a scale where you can actually see the uniforms...
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Not minis, but I used to play the Sid Meier PC Civil War games--got so good at Gettysburg I brought home Decisives for both sides, then when I hit the battlefield in MeatSpace I had a mindscrew moment because all the roads, buildings and monuments clashed with how I had virtually "seen" the battlefield.
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i hav a Confed and a union army in 15mm Old Glory. We play Johhny reb 3 rules
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No ACW mini's but can play most all ACW battle's in board games. Also a large amount of Nepoleonic's in board game's. Lot's and lot's of board game's!!            
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| Texas Grognard wrote: | | Quote: | | I miss my ACW, but not all the painting, so AAM/WAS has filled the void for now. |
Yeah Yankee blue can get downright monotonous. The only exceptions were the Iron Brigade aka the the Black Hats, Irish Brigade loved their Regimental colors, New York Highlanders, and Zouaves. Another unit I discovered recently is a California unit, the Sacramento Hussar's. That would be a very interesting unit to paint up.
Rebs have a little more variety as more often than not many wore civilian clothing versus uniforms. You also have butternut and various shades of gray. The most fun to paint are the Louisiana Tigers and the New Orleans Washington Artillery.
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Califorinia Units????? I only heard of the 69th SanFransisco, but they did not march well because they were a little light in their brogans. 
Being form WI the Iron Brigade is by far my favorite Unit.
Iron Bde at Brawner's Farm:
Of Course the Rebs are fun to model and diverse with the lack of uniforming.
Texans:
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Board games are ok for strategy, but tactics are where it's at.
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Aw sweet Afilter! I missed the piccies before!
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Anybody remember A House Divided? I played this one published by Phalanx Games like crazy with my fellow gamer. This is a great game. I always played the South, and was the winning side almost all the times.
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| afilter wrote: | | Texas Grognard wrote: | | Quote: | | I miss my ACW, but not all the painting, so AAM/WAS has filled the void for now. |
Yeah Yankee blue can get downright monotonous. The only exceptions were the Iron Brigade aka the the Black Hats, Irish Brigade loved their Regimental colors, New York Highlanders, and Zouaves. Another unit I discovered recently is a California unit, the Sacramento Hussar's. That would be a very interesting unit to paint up.
Rebs have a little more variety as more often than not many wore civilian clothing versus uniforms. You also have butternut and various shades of gray. The most fun to paint are the Louisiana Tigers and the New Orleans Washington Artillery.
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Califorinia Units????? I only heard of the 69th SanFransisco, but they did not march well because they were a little light in their brogans.
Being form WI the Iron Brigade is by far my favorite Unit.
Iron Bde at Brawner's Farm:
Of Course the Rebs are fun to model and diverse with the lack of uniforming.
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Here's some info on the Sacramento Hussars. Click on www.militarymuseum.org/SacramentoHussars.html
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Pretty, but no real combat experience that I can see. Of course, we also have the Arizona and Graf Zeppelin...
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| Duck Crusader wrote: | | Pretty, but no real combat experience that I can see. Of course, we also have the Arizona and Graf Zeppelin... |
True but they would certainly break the monotony of Yankee Blue! They'd definitely have a Green morale rating in Johnny Reb II. I don't know what battles they would participate in but they'd definitely look dandy. Kinda like Old Guard Grenadiers representing Plauche's Battalion at the Battle of New Orleans. But thats another subject.  Salut and YEEEHAAA y'all!
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Who in their right mind plays Yankees?
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