Cigar Box Battle Mats combine to make Massive gaming area

While looking at the Cigar Box Battle Mat designs, I hope you’ve noticed that the mats combine to make MASSIVE gaming areas. We recently posted on Facebook the image below…

NEW ADF Reference Charts

Hey Gamers!   Now that Historicon is over, we’ve just been given the honor of being the first source for some very good additions to the ADF resource library. We…

Now Available: Cigarboxbattle Wargaming Mats!

We now offer a line of our own 60  x 80 inch wargaming mats for sale! This is something that we had been using for our own games, but we…

Top ten posts for the first year of Cigarboxbattle.com

  Here it is gamers! Here is a list of links to the top 10 posts visited by gamers this year on Cigarboxbattle.com. When we look at all of our…

Across a Deadly Field Gettysburg at Little Wars AAR

Across a Deadly Field   “Gettysburg – A Long Afternoon” Played at the “Little Wars” Chicago Convention, April 26, 2014 After Action Report – By Patrick R. LeBeau and Dean West…

ACWGamer.com visits Cold Wars 2014

28mm Union soldiers advance! All pictures taken by Stephen Huckaby. ACWGamer made  a trip to HMGS’s Cold Wars 2014 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  The event, held from  March 6-9, is one of the biggest historical miniature…

Musings of a “Johnny Reb” Gamer

I have to be clear, I’m a huge “Johnny Reb” fan. This will be a biased article!  Actually  I’ve been a “Civil War buff”, for as long as I can remember. The…

“What if Slocum Wasn’t Slow?” July 1, 1863 – scenario & terrain pictures

“What of Slocum wasn’t slow?” A scenario for July 1st, 1863 Northeast of Gettysburg. “The Corps could easily have joined in the battle the first day. The distance from our…

ACWGamer Magazine Editor Interview

Today, we have the luck to interview the head of ACWGamer Magazine Mr. Stephen M. Huckaby. His incredibly successful Ezine has been arriving in email boxes all over the world…

Unsung Heroes of Gaming – Rick Priestley

  In this first post of Unsung Heroes of Gaming, CigarBoxBattle.com gets the uncommon privilege of interviewing one of the greatest Game Designers of our time. Welcome Mr. Rick Preistley!…

New Magazine – ACW Gamer – The Ezine

This is a fantastic, new e-magazine available for American Civil War wargamers. The inaugural issue has some fantastic articles in it such as: an early war  scenario for Pohick Church, 1861,…

Across A Deadly Field – ACW Rules

  The recent announcement by Amazon confirmed that John Hill has been working with Osprey on a new set of hardbound deluxe ACW miniature rules entitled, “Across A Deadly Field” (ADF) that will enable gamers to recreate large battles while still using individual…