Taking shape

Well the battlefield is almost done. I still need to make a road that goes from the Valley turnpike up to the Glass Farm but I ran out of cloth.

On the whole not a beutiful field but highly functional and easy to make.

I will try and find a cloth of a different colour for the woods since I don't like how much the dark green stands out.

I have started placing troops on the table to see how it looks.

It's interesting with a battle were one side has such a huge advantage in numbers from the start. Hopefully I will managde to find out how it goes next week.

Until next time keep rolling those sixes!

/Conny

Preparation has begun

For all my wargaming years I have always had a problem with terrain. You see all the fantastic tables people put up and you want it like that. But you find you don't have the skill or the time to build it. This leads to fewer games since I plan and plan to try to find the best solution to make a nice looking table. Well this time I have set my mind up to get more games done. So I went back to some basic materials to get the battlefields done.

The rivers, roads and forests will be marked with fabric and the hills I will build up on the table with cardboard and put a blanket over it. The idea is to be able to make diffrent battlefields in a relativly short time.

I may buy a darker blue cloth in the future but what I have will do for now.

The battle rosters and all labels are done for the Battle of Kernstown. I will return with pictures of the completed table once it is done.

Until then keep them sixes coming!

/Conny

A Humble beginning

After a time away from ACW and miniatures gaming for some years I'm now trying to start it up again.

I got hold of an excellent book "A Storm in the Valley 1862". This is a book with 10 scenarios focusing on Jacksons campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.

This book has got me going at it again. I'm planing on creating all the scenarios in the order writen in this book and maybe even try the campaign that is the 10th scenario.

But to make this happen I have to do some terrain. But I will go for simple fast constructions and materials to get started and get some games going. I have started to make labels for my units, a humble start...

O well thats all for now and hopefully I will soon return with some progress.

Until then keep rolling those sixes!

/Conny