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…
A game of “Longstreet” in 28mm
Wayne Bolland and his gaming group sent us these iPhone pics from a recent 28mm game of Sam Mustafa’s fine ACW rule set “Longstreet”. They had been playing “Across A Deadly…
ADF – Scenarios for the War in the East
John Hill and Osprey have an exciting release planned to support their new ACW rules “Across A Deadly Field”. It will be a scenario book entitled “Across A Deadly Field – Scenarios…
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…
ADF 15mm Johnny Reb III Compatible Reference Charts
There seems to be a desire by more than a few folks to use 15mm Johnny Reb III four stand regiments with the ADF mechanics. John Hill decided to modify…
15mm Across A Deadly Field 4 Page Quick Reference Charts
These are the 4 page charts used by the design team during the playtesting of “Across A Deadly Field”. The charts put all the information that a gamer needs to know…
ADF ACW – The Odd Guns
Mike Bradford created this chart, in the spirit of JR2, for some of the odd weapons of the ACW. He was putting together a scenario for Gaines’ Mill and wanted…
How to see the forest for the trees with our mats!
Tips for making great wooded areas using Cigarboxbattle mats – You can use the trees and woods printed on your mats “as is” in 2D like a board game, with…
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!”…
Cigar Box Battle Mats – How to get the most from your mats
We have had quite a few people ask us how to get the most out of their mats, so we decided that a new blog post was in order! The core concept…