28mm ACW Miniatures

American Civil War Miniatures

Here are some pictures of units from my 25mm / 28mm ACW collection. I have a fairly large 15mm ACW collection, but recently I have had the urge to do the ACW in a grander scale (28mm). Has this ever happened to you? Same period....multiple scales! My 28mm ACW figs are mostly based around Hood's 1864 middle Tennessee campaign (Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville), and based for the "Johnny Reb" rules. I still have a ton of unpainted lead, but I'm hoping to get some serious painting done this summer. The majority of my unpainted figures are 28mm Dixon figures.

28mm Wargames Foundry (Perry sculpts) Confederates. I painted this unit
not too long ago. I really like the pose and the proportions on Perry figures. These
are painted as the 1st & 3rd FL infantry.

First Corps 28mm figures defending a stone wall. These are
painted as the 54th GA.

Mostly Dixon 28mm Union figures. These are painted as
the 50th Ohio. This unit was heavily engaged in the fighting
at Franklin, TN.

Old Glory 25mm ACW artillery and crews. These are painted
as Ferguson's S.C. battery and Phillip's TN battery.

Another shot of the FL boys. I was experimenting with some
natual lighting here.

Little Swords

My friend Chris has a great gaming blog detailing some of his 40K, Warmaster, DBA, HOTT, and Firestorm Armada games. Check it out!

www.LittleSwords.wordpress.com

Buck Surdu's Blog

I also enjoy my friend Buck Surdu's blog:

http://www.bucksurdu.com/blog/

check it out!

Cory

Scott Mingus' ACW Blog -

Another great blog that enjoy following:

http://scottmingus.wordpress.com/

Bunker Hill - one of the blogs I like to follow

http://christopher-bunkerhill.blogspot.com/

Wargamer's Digest November 1978 - "Johnnie Reb"

Wargamer's Digest

I was digging through some of my old magazines and came across this gem. It is a copy of Wargamer's Digest from Nov. 1878 (Vol. 6, #1). The magazine contains a scenario of  Seven Pines, written by Dean West. It's interesting in that "Johnnie Reb" wasn't yet published at that time, and was still a few years away. It is a battle report from a game run at GenCon XI " as a demonstration of "Johnnie Reb", the new ACW rules designed by John Hill and soon be released by Heritage Models".



The cover of Wargamer's Digest.



The first two pages of the article. Dean did a great job writing this article
and I would consider it quite ahead of it's time for wargaming in 1978. John and Dean really
stress realistic terrain  (you should see some of the other pics in the magazine), limited intelligence,
accurate OOB's and sceanrio design.

"Johnny Reb" ..continued

We are still having fun playing the Chickamauga scenario. Here are some more shots from our 15mm ACW game in progress. The CSA attack on  their left has failed and they are now sending troops through the gap in the middle. It looks like it's going to end up being a big fire-fight in the woods.

This shows the Union line holding the crossroads
and the CSA advance in the middle. The Yanks
have managed to pull back in order and they will
be a tough nut to crack. The good news for the CSA is that
they have some artilley moving up!



Close-up shot of the Unon rear line. So far these troops
haven't fired a shot!

The toughest unit in the US army today! They have held all day
against furious CSA assualts and have just launched a counter-attack! This was
the unit on the extreme USA right flank. They have just about destroyed an
entire CSA brigade!