Happy Easter from the Easter Dackel. (He digs up earthworms and dead rodents and varmints instead of bringing eggs). April kicks off American Civil War month for DWD and truth be told, we got a head start in March by painting up some ACW units already.
Just like during the real American Civil War, we’re having mobilization problems dealing with a rapid influx of recruits and units! I’ve basecoated the LAST of my ACW collection from the lead pile and we’re going to paint them all. That’s probably about 4 more infantry units, about a dozen cannon of various calibers, and the Blue Moon ACW Union and Confederate “personalities”. I’ve also had the good fortune to play Alex’s take on the Neil Thomas 19th Century rules and I’ve been working on an ACW variant, based heavily off of the rules from “Wargaming: An Introduction” and the 19th Century rules. More to follow on this and I plan on posting on Alex’s Franco Prussian Rules and a huge game we played last week and his excellent rules.
For now, a nice Easter treat for everyone – I’m posting pictures of some recent ACW progress. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve had these figures for many years and have just gotten to painting them. That is to say – my ACW collection has been sorely neglected for a long time but I’m finally giving them the attention they deserve.
Just a sneak preview here. I sitll have to base my elite Union regiments (Iron Brigade and Zuoave troops) and finish a Confederate Zuoave regiment but otherwise besides the unpainted guys I have on painting sticks now, the ACW project is just about done.
Some rules discussions coming up, and hopefully some battle reports soon! Happy Easter! Hurrah!
Der Wütende Dackel 
superb work on these sir!
I literally have Stones River for V&B being set up as we speak, so I will be joining you in some ACW goodness this week…still my favourite rules for ACW, though I appreciate I am in a minority :))
Can’t wait to see the15mm boys on the battlefield
Hi Steve, nice forces, I like that the figures have a more shoulder to shoulder look than is generally the case. I do like the Blue Moon stuff.
Sorry, it still thinks I am anonymous and I have signed in! Norm.
thanks Norm – I am ashamed to admit I had these blue moon guys for years before painting them.
thanks, Norm. I was going for a more massed, sloppy line formation however the rules im going to play have a stationary “line of battle” for massed troops and a “skirmish order” where they’ll be mobile. I wanted the stands to look decent together or separated.
cheers, Darren. Looking forward to reading your batrep sir! You can play the biggest battles of the ACW with Volley and Bayonet!
Lovely figures, I do like the personalities. My ACW stuff is all 6mm (but Baccus, so more like 8mm!), nice figures but you do lose of the character in the smaller scales.
funnily enough I’ve just been revisiting my ACW rules, also based on Neil Thomas’s from ‘Introduction to Wargaming’, but I’m tweaking them to be more in line with my One Hour Napoleonic variant. I’ll be interested to see what you come up with.
Hi Martin – I used to have a large collection of Baccus 6mm ACW but eventually sold them. They are wonderful figures and paint up quickly.
I was lucky to recently play in a large 15mm Franco Prussian wargame that saw NT’s 19th Century Rules on the table but with some added chrome for Command and control and some extra player options that Alex introduced. I was struck by them and thought that combined with NT’s Wargaming: An Introduction ACW rules (stand loss and rallying) theyd be alot of fun for a tactical battle (unit= regiment). Probably a bit smaller scale than what youre working on.
Your Napoleonic rules ive always thiught would be a great starting point for grand tactical ACW battles.