15mm ACW Collection

Well I have finally got my 15mm ACW collection ready for the table.  Actually I have had it ready and played 2 games with it over the last month and a half, but I would be remiss in not posting them to my blog. Most of these miniatures are Old Glory with a little Essex and Musket Miniatures thrown in for good measure. The lower 2 trays are my CSA(Confederate) troops and the upper 2 trays are my Union troops.  I guess you can tell by the pictures where my loyalties lie... LOL  I was born and raised in the south and now live in California of all places, go figure.  These armies are based for Johnny Reb III with each 4 stand block of troops being one regiment.  I still have over 1200 pcs of 15mm ACW troops still to paint, but I can see that I need to work on my union troops some more to have parity.  You will notice the black bases in the lower first tray, those are 4 more limbers I have for the Union still to paint which I just noticed are in the Confederate Infantry tray.  I guess I should move them up to the Union trays... lol  Anyway it is not much but it is a start.  I think there are about 600 figures in here and all of it painted this year!

Latest issue of Charge! Johnny Reb III quarterly newletter arrived

The post came the other day and much to my surprise issue #26 is the Johnny Reb III gaming society was amongst my mail.  The surprise was that I did not expect it until early next month.  I had just joined this at the beginning of April at the cost of $20.00 per year for 4 issues.  The main reason I got this was that every issue has between 2-5 scenario's in it amongst other things, for example this issue has the following in it:

Scenario: Little Phil's stand at Chickamauga.
Rules add-on: Random events cards for your scenario's.
Rules discussion: JRIII Artillery revisited.
Scenario: Meade's Pipe Creek Line.
And More...

I felt the scenario's alone over the course of a year were worth the cost.  You figure you will get between 8-20 scenario's in that time, hell that is a scenario book that you would pay $20.00-$40.00USD for anywhere else. it is put out by a name(Scott Mingus) you should recognize, if you are at all involved with ACW gaming.  If you are interested in or play Johnny RebIII ACW rules I would highly recommend getting this!  The link is here >  http://scottmingus.wordpress.com/about/

Get it you will not regret it...

25mm ACW OLD GLORY Rebel Infantry

Here are a couple of stands I have been painting up for my 25/28mm ACW games. I have been using Johnny Reb III and once you get past the lousy rules layout of the game, it is very fun to play. Anyway here is one Regiment I have finished so for of a 12figure Regiment.

Change of scenery so to speak

Well I have not posted anything for several months as I have been desperately trying to find work after being laid off last year in May 2009. Well that search is rather like wading up an avalanche trying to get to the top of the mountain! There simply is very little work out here in California and what little there is out here, there are probably 100 applicants or more for each position. Anyway I have traded off a lot of my Warhammer 40k, Warhammer fantasy battle and Flames of War armies and getting both 15mm and 25/28mm American Civil War miniatures, Ancients in the form of Foundry 28mm Principate Romans(100A.D.), some 15mm Seleucids and lastly Napoleonics in both 15mm and 28mm. I am hoping to finish a trade this weekend of my Lizardman army(WHFB) and other bits and bobs for a huge unpainted collection of over 4000 pieces of Essex 15mm Nappies, French and Brits along with British Allies. I also have gotten into Seekreig III after not playing that since the Mid 80's. I got into this by accident as I got some 1/2400th scale ships in a trade with a guy in Tennessee. I traded my FOW Russians for some wonderfully painted Foundry/Old Glory 25/28mm ACW figures and the ships came with this trade. Anyway I will have more to post as I go along...

Cheers for now...