Aldramelech
07-26-2010, 04:36 AM
Soooo This is a nice new shiny area of BOLS ain't it?
This thread might be a little premature as this project is not starting properly quite yet. But you will get the full process from planning and buying, right through to the finished product:)
Since my return to wargaming after a long absence, I have being trying to build up my collection from scratch again and WFB and 40k have up till now taken priority so that I can take part in various club leagues.
Well I'm there now. 501st Cadian was finished a while ago and my dwarf throng is one unit away from being finished. I am now free to concentrate on my first love, historical games. Early war Soviet for FOW is first, and you can see in the thread in the FOW area that work has begun and will start in earnest now the Dwarfs are complete. I don't envisage them taking me more then two-three months max.
So I have begun to plan a project that will take at least a year after that. 28mm American Civil War.
I have looked very carefully for a game that A/ No one else is doing in that scale at my club b/ that interests me and c/ Would not be too expensive.
Having had a look at the Perry Twins plastics for ACW and the amazing price for which they can be had on Ebay this made choosing these two armies a no brainer. I want to do the first two years of the war as the later period is very hard to make an enjoyable game out of.
This is what Ive come up with:
Union. II Corps First Division.
1st Brigade.
5th Newhampshire
7 New York
61st New York
81st Pennsylvania
2nd (Irish) Brigade
29th Massachusetts
63rd New York
69th New York
88th New York
116 Pennsylvania
Attachments.
Battery B 1st New York (3x 3ich ordnance rifles)
6th New York Cavalry (Attached to Division Cmdr.)
This is obviously only part of the Division, I'm not that rich!
Confederate. Ewells Division. Winders Brigade.
2nd Virginia
4th Virginia
5th Virginia
9th Virginia
27th Virginia
33rd Virginia
Lee's Brigade
1st Virginia Cavalry
4th Virginia Cavalry
5th Virginia Cavalry
Attachments
Danville (Virginia) Artillery - Woodings Battery. (2x 12pdr Napoleon 1x 3 inch Enfield)
Lees Brigade is short a unit. The only liberty I have taken is the 9th Virginia was in a different brigade, but there were quite a few 6 Regiment Brigades in the army.
I think this should provide an interesting game........
Infantry Regiments will be 18 figures strong. Cavalry Regiments will be 9 figures strong, dismounting into Infantry skirmishers 6 figures strong. So we have 15 units of foot, 4 units of Cav, 6 guns and various command figures. Also I intend to have full limbers for all the guns.
Total cost, hopefully £200.
3 boxes of Perry Cavalry have already been acquired from ebay at less then £10 a box, so thats the mounted figures sorted. I will need 4 packs of Perry's metal cav dismounts and 4 sets of horseholders to complete the Cavalry for both sides. These will have to be bought from Perry Miniatures as the likelihood of them appearing on Ebay is nil.
So Lots to buy, build and paint! And I haven't even looked at terrain yet! :eek:
This thread might be a little premature as this project is not starting properly quite yet. But you will get the full process from planning and buying, right through to the finished product:)
Since my return to wargaming after a long absence, I have being trying to build up my collection from scratch again and WFB and 40k have up till now taken priority so that I can take part in various club leagues.
Well I'm there now. 501st Cadian was finished a while ago and my dwarf throng is one unit away from being finished. I am now free to concentrate on my first love, historical games. Early war Soviet for FOW is first, and you can see in the thread in the FOW area that work has begun and will start in earnest now the Dwarfs are complete. I don't envisage them taking me more then two-three months max.
So I have begun to plan a project that will take at least a year after that. 28mm American Civil War.
I have looked very carefully for a game that A/ No one else is doing in that scale at my club b/ that interests me and c/ Would not be too expensive.
Having had a look at the Perry Twins plastics for ACW and the amazing price for which they can be had on Ebay this made choosing these two armies a no brainer. I want to do the first two years of the war as the later period is very hard to make an enjoyable game out of.
This is what Ive come up with:
Union. II Corps First Division.
1st Brigade.
5th Newhampshire
7 New York
61st New York
81st Pennsylvania
2nd (Irish) Brigade
29th Massachusetts
63rd New York
69th New York
88th New York
116 Pennsylvania
Attachments.
Battery B 1st New York (3x 3ich ordnance rifles)
6th New York Cavalry (Attached to Division Cmdr.)
This is obviously only part of the Division, I'm not that rich!
Confederate. Ewells Division. Winders Brigade.
2nd Virginia
4th Virginia
5th Virginia
9th Virginia
27th Virginia
33rd Virginia
Lee's Brigade
1st Virginia Cavalry
4th Virginia Cavalry
5th Virginia Cavalry
Attachments
Danville (Virginia) Artillery - Woodings Battery. (2x 12pdr Napoleon 1x 3 inch Enfield)
Lees Brigade is short a unit. The only liberty I have taken is the 9th Virginia was in a different brigade, but there were quite a few 6 Regiment Brigades in the army.
I think this should provide an interesting game........
Infantry Regiments will be 18 figures strong. Cavalry Regiments will be 9 figures strong, dismounting into Infantry skirmishers 6 figures strong. So we have 15 units of foot, 4 units of Cav, 6 guns and various command figures. Also I intend to have full limbers for all the guns.
Total cost, hopefully £200.
3 boxes of Perry Cavalry have already been acquired from ebay at less then £10 a box, so thats the mounted figures sorted. I will need 4 packs of Perry's metal cav dismounts and 4 sets of horseholders to complete the Cavalry for both sides. These will have to be bought from Perry Miniatures as the likelihood of them appearing on Ebay is nil.
So Lots to buy, build and paint! And I haven't even looked at terrain yet! :eek: