• Lee’s First Victory: The Battle of Gaines’ Mill (1862)

    Lee’s First Victory: The Battle of Gaines’ Mill (1862)

    By Published On: 10 June 2026Categories: ACW7.9 min readViews: 120

    I put on the Battle of Gaines Mill at the club on Friday 1 May, using my 1:72 (20mm) scale plastic ACW [...]

  • Taking Champion’s Hill (1863)

    Taking Champion’s Hill (1863)

    By Published On: 23 May 2025Categories: ACW5.9 min readViews: 326

    I put on an ACW game on Friday 16 May set in the Western Theatre around Vicksburg. The Confederates (Joel and Mal) [...]

  • Little Round Top (1863)

    Little Round Top (1863)

    By Published On: 13 October 2024Categories: ACW3.6 min readViews: 262

    Last night I put on a 20mm ACW game at the club using old school Airfix figures and my Beards n' Bayonets [...]

  • Up the creek without a paddle steamer

    Up the creek without a paddle steamer

    By Published On: 22 January 2024Categories: ACW4.7 min readViews: 332

    In recent months I have been ploughing through my (very disorganised) mountains of accumulated wargaming kit - if it is possible to [...]

  • Stones River (1862) – War Room Christmas game 2023

    Stones River (1862) – War Room Christmas game 2023

    By Published On: 28 December 2023Categories: ACW2 min readViews: 288

    Below are some photos of this year's club Christmas game, painstakingly organised by Rob using his 15mm ACW figure collection and Brigade [...]

  • Behind Enemy Lines: ACW Railway Sabotage!

    Behind Enemy Lines: ACW Railway Sabotage!

    By Published On: 5 November 2023Categories: ACW3.9 min readViews: 248

    Mal and Phil put on a nifty ACW game at the club last Friday, using a scenario devised by Mal, Phil's amended [...]

  • O’Neill’s Orchard: 15mm ACW

    O’Neill’s Orchard: 15mm ACW

    By Published On: 12 August 2023Categories: ACW2.3 min readViews: 186

    Phil's Minifigs got another run out yesterday, as he hosted an ACW encounter at the community centre. We were joined by our [...]

  • Pickett’s charge and the Light Brigade revisited

    Pickett’s charge and the Light Brigade revisited

    By Published On: 1 July 2023Categories: ACW2.3 min readViews: 244

    We played an ACW game using Black Powder rules (with several necessary amendments). The players divided into three per side. It was [...]

  • Bartlett’s Farm (1863): ACW at the War Room

    Bartlett’s Farm (1863): ACW at the War Room

    By Published On: 27 May 2023Categories: ACW6.6 min readViews: 226

    Rob rolled spectacularly during yesterday’s Sunday game at the War Room. The scenario, using his 15mm collection, pitted Rob and Neil’s Confederates [...]

  • Kennesaw Mountain (1864): 6mm ACW

    Kennesaw Mountain (1864): 6mm ACW

    By Published On: 15 April 2023Categories: ACW3.3 min readViews: 198

    Our club night yesterday was a refight of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (27 June 1864) - using my 6mm figures and [...]

  • Rebels Repulsed: 1862 ACW

    Rebels Repulsed: 1862 ACW

    By Published On: 14 February 2023Categories: ACW2.1 min readViews: 220

    Friday 13th January 2023 proved inauspicious for the Confederates, as we played a 15mm ACW game umpired by Richard at the club [...]

  • Missouri Border War (1861)

    Missouri Border War (1861)

    By Published On: 18 September 2021Categories: ACW1.2 min readViews: 258

    Yesterday's club game was an attempt at an alternative to the usual ACW set-piece head-on clash of arms. The scenario was set [...]

  • Armies on Parade: 1:72 American Civil War

    Armies on Parade: 1:72 American Civil War

    By Published On: 1 May 2020Categories: ACW1.4 min readViews: 306

    This is the first in what may be a series of blog posts showcasing my wargames armies. First up we have the [...]

  • Shiloh in 6mm

    Shiloh in 6mm

    By Published On: 15 February 2020Categories: ACW1 min readViews: 249

    On Friday 14 February 2020 I umpired a 6mm ACW game at the club. Rob and Noel were on the Confederate side, [...]

  • 2nd Manassas / Bull Run – Refight

    2nd Manassas / Bull Run – Refight

    By Published On: 4 May 2019Categories: ACW0.5 min readViews: 197

    Over a weekend we re fought this famous battle in the American Civil War using the new edition of the Fire & [...]

  • Gettysburg – Day Three (6mm)

    Gettysburg – Day Three (6mm)

    By Published On: 30 March 2019Categories: ACW1.8 min readViews: 208

    Last night's game was a refight of day three at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, in 6mm scale. Mal, Richard and Doug [...]

  • Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

    Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!

    By Published On: 22 June 2018Categories: ACW1.9 min readViews: 220

    Friday 15 June 2018 saw me put on an American Civil War game at the club. Using 6mm Heroics and Ros figures, [...]