Just released – Across A Deadly Field – The War in the East scenario mats!
Cigar Box Battle and Osprey Publishing are proud to announce the release of the scenario mats from John Hill’s recently released “Across A Deadly Field – The War in the…
Gettysburg! Cigar Box Battle and Osprey Publishing join forces!
Cigar Box Battle and Osprey Publishing are proud to announce the release of three new terrain mats! These are Gettysburg mats designed to fight out all of the “Gettysburg –…
News Flash! Gettysburg mats now released! #Gettysburg
Head on over to our webstore to check out the officially licensed “Across A Deadly Field” Gettysburg – the First Day Mats! Osprey Publishing and Cigar Box Battle are extremely…
American Civil War Campaigns
Wayne Bollands at Wargames Illustrated has been sharing his gaming groups campaign news with us here at Cigar Box Battle and it has been quite enjoyable to follow along. So…
The Battle of Nashville 1864 – featured mat
This is one of our newest, wave 2, mats! The mat represents the terrain of the historical battle of Nashville in 1864 during the first day’s fighting on the Confederate left…
Auction to save Gen. Lee’s HQ at Gettysburg!
Stephen Huckaby of ACWGamer.com sent me the following today – ACW Gamer subscriber, Roger Mark, has created a diorama to auction on Ebay. The majority of the auction proceeds…
Field Report – The Battle of Bollinburg
Wayne Bollands from Wargames Illustrated and his gaming club have been running an “Across A Deadly Field” campaign. Here is an after action report and pictures of their latest battle – “Sir,…
ACW Frontages
Regiments and Frontages – How Much Space Did a Battle Line Actually Take up? American Civil War enthusiasts have been debating frontages for many decades, and the answer that would be…
Across A Deadly Field – It’s here!
We just received word that John Hill’s new American Civil War rules have been released on Amazon (USA) by Osprey Publishing! That’s great news for the ACW gaming community! We…
Ask John Hill – ADF Questions & Clarifications
“Ask John Hill” will be a new regular column on CigarBoxBattle and will serve as a successor to the same type column found in “The Zouave” and Scott Mingus’ excellent “Charge!”…
Playing ADF with 15mm Johnny Reb III Units
Many gamers have their 15mm regiments mounted for Johnny Reb III (JRIII) and while they prefer the look of JRIII’s large four stand regiments, they would like to use Across A…
A few pictures of the ADF Gettysburg game at Historicon
Here are some pictures of Patrick Lebeau’s incredible 15mm “Across A Deadly Field” game at Historicon. These were taken by Christian Waters from Osprey Publishing. Thanks for sharing Christian! The…