Years ago we lived in a apartment condo during an occurrence of many fires damaging suites, I told The Wife that should we encounter such an emergency to grab the two large duffel bags of my 15mm ACW and throw them off our second story balcony. Her “what about the wedding photos?!” was dismissed. Priorities you know…..
But yes, this was, and still is one of my favourite my wargame collections. Not having brought it out of the bags for many years, I decided to layout my terrain to see what was still needed. In a rather interesting coincidence KevinA emails me that very day with his new ideas for averaging the huge swing the Fire and Fury ACW Rules d10 rolls can produce. I was intrigued and so with terrain already in place, PeterM joined us as the Union defender against KevinA’s Reb attack. The existing charts using the ‘weird’ d3s, low-average dice, and troop quality modifiers had the game move along in a more realistic manner rather than the ‘I have all the advantages but you rolled a bleeping 10 to my only a 1!!’ situations were avoided. Leaving the terrain on the table (how real life can get in the way) we played a second, continuing scenario with Craig joining us as "Stonewall" using more of the table for a good game.
(for the record, I decided require better fields but have enough trees. I used only 1.5 of 3 boxes. One does need many trees for a 19th C. American battlefield.)
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| The table set up including the fun little additions in my collection including an observation tower (center), and balloon (right center) and solid wood buildings and fences. Must get some more farm animals; the sheep (lower center) gives a cute accompaniment. |
