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Category Archives: Periods – American Civil War
ACW ironclad rules added
Here’s another addition to the Complete Rule Sets page, “Virginia vs. Monitor.” Mike Crane’s original rules can be played out on a square grid, featuring the first clash of ironclads during the American Civil War. The rules are on the … Continue reading
Steam Punk and the USS Galena
By Rob Morgan The USS Galena gunboat design was not one of the great successes of the Federal Navy, I’ll admit. Attractive, of course, with the awesome tumble home and quite powerfully armed as, essentially, a broadside ironclad. Never destined … Continue reading
The most useless warship in history?
By Rob Morgan My 1/1200th-scale ACW fleets don’t get anything like the use they did 20 years ago. Now, I tend to use the 1/600th-scale models of Peter Pig with a few American-made Thoroughbreds thrown in, the latter for the … Continue reading
25mm covered bridge model
Jonathan Aird reviews a Stone Mountain 25mm covered bridge with many gaming uses. It’s on the Reviews page.
A trip to Shiloh
By George Arnold I recently had occasion to travel to Memphis, Tennessee, to visit family and decided to leave a day early and drive 120 miles beyond Memphis and take in the Shiloh battlefield as a side trip. I’d been … Continue reading
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A gunboat for the Potomac flotilla
By Rob Morgan The Peter Pig 1/600th model known as the USS Fuschia was one of the most attractive and useful small warships around. Its uses ranged from an 1840s gunboat to the Crimea and many Colonial encounters, and, well … Continue reading
‘A Splendid Failure’
By Rob Morgan The neglected Confederate ironclad CSS Georgia is given the above sad title in a six-page illustrated article by M. Blackburn, pages 44-49, in the September-October issue of the U.S.-produced magazine Archaeology. The wreck of the warship has … Continue reading
Review of ‘Arms and Equipment of the Civil War’ book
Mike Crane reviews a 1962 book that remains useful today. It’s on the Reviews page.
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What’s going on at Bay Area Yards?
By Rob Morgan Does anyone know what’s happening at Bay Area Yards? I want to extend my 1/600th ACW warship collection after some time, since Peter Pig has now begun to issue more models. The Bay lists, last time I … Continue reading
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A sample article for September
This month’s sample article from the pages of Lone Warrior magazine is by Kevin White and features his simple rules for a grid-based American Civil War game, using a 20-sided die and a pack of playing cards. It’s on the … Continue reading
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