ACW with AGW or Finally Playing with the 28s

 As part of the wargaming program we've been trying to get figures that haven't been used in a while or not played with at all out onto the table. This week saw my ACW 28mm collection out for some action.

The Armies are basically a matched set with the CSA forces having an extra two units from an earlier attempt at the period*. Perry plastics with some metal command.

We chose "Action in the Plattville Valley" from Featherstone's War Games as the scenario. 

The Union advance guard move along the
Lower Pike Road. 
  

Spying the Rebels, the The Pennsylvanians 
move to Green Ridge. 

Confederate forces arrive at the Ploughed Field. 

 

The boys from Michigan set up by Church Hill

Standing bravely under the withering fire of the 
Confederate guns.

The Virginians charge into Plateville.

As luck would have it a Boy Scout has led 
the artillery astray.

Union cavalry looking good but in effective.

A good game although the as the Union commander I took a beating. The cards seemed to go my way but the dice refused to hit or save. 

*The story behind these armies. When Sash & Saber came out with their 28mm ACW line my friend and decided to do build some forces. It took me a bit to get mine painted and by that time we moved on to other things. I sold off the unpainted figures but kept the painted. Several years later at a hobby store the owner was selling two boxes of Perry Confederate for a fairly good price. Of course I bought them.

Then another friend told me of an online store that sold Perry's for a good price. I bought some Union figures and ordered some more things from England. In 2021 with out much else to do but work I built and painted the figures. Each army is six units of infantry, two skirmishers, one cavalry and four guns. Three Generals per side rounds out the army. A nice balanced for for A Gentleman's War.

I do have two extra infantry units for the Rebels so someday I may need to breakdown and buy a box of Zouaves.

Thanks for reading.

End of August

I just realized that I hadn't posted an AAR of my most recent game of Saga. A small 4 point game mainly played to give Nate an idea of the rules. We chose a Warlord fight and with my warlord leading the way Nate killed him on the second turn. with a few hours of gaming left we continued the game from there and pretty much had slug fest until the end.

I'm still learning some of the rules and haven't quite mastered the battle board but still have a good feeling about Saga and hope to play a few more games. 

This month I was also able to get some paint on a few. Kings Mountain Miniatures that had been gifted to me. These are very nice well sculpted minis similar in size the the Perry  figures. this has reminded me of a review I did for MWAN on the available AWI figures in 28mm some years ago. Since then Perry, KMM and Fife & Drum have come out so I may need to update this. I also don't think it is available on line anymore. I'll have to find the disc first.