ADF Question and Answer Page

Stephanie Hill (John’s daughter) has a fantastic John Hill tribute website. She is now offering gamers the opportunity to ask questions about ADF and have them answered by rules expert…

Across A Deadly Field – The War in the West

  The third book in John Hill’s “Across A Deadly Field” rules trilogy is now out! This is a very special book if you are a John Hill and ADF…

The special John Hill memorial issue of Charge!

Here is a link to Scott Mingus’ special John Hill memorial issue of Charge! This is available as a FREE digital download. This is the Johnny Reb Gaming Society’s way…

Unexpected Devastation – Remembering John Hill

My friend John Hill passed away on Jan. 12th, and it has hit me hard. It’s taken me this long to rally and find the time to put pen to paper.…

How to Run a Convention Game

A light hearted look at running a historical miniatures convention game – A friend of mine, who has never run a game at a convention, asked me for some pointers…

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…

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…

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!”…

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…

Across A Deadly Field at Nashcon

John Hill’s new rules “Across A Deadly Field” had their Southern debut at Nashcon 2014 this Memorial Day weekend. It was extra special too, since John was the Guest of Honor…