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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 10:33:16 AM

Title: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 10:33:16 AM: I wonder.......

The ACW is not really my 'bag' but this new BIF Perry releases have got me wondering, how the 'professionalism' most of the BIF would compare to the quickly formed units of the Yanks in the early ACW?

Sounds like an obvious question but......???

Darrell.
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 10:40:38 AM: I tinkered with it a good few years ago but was planning a french intervention army from mexico. Fire and fury rules was the game I was planning to use. From memory I think it was likely a rather one sided afair but numbers would tell
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 10:52:01 AM: Heres a canny article
http://www.wfgamers.org.uk/resources/C19/britacw.htm
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 11:13:09 AM: Quote from: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 10:52:01 AM
Heres a canny article
http://www.wfgamers.org.uk/resources/C19/britacw.htm

Thanks matey, very informative and my club (that I haven't been to for ages!) uses Fire and Fury so you may just be responsible for me forking out more cash by showing me the link to that article! :D

Darrell
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 11:23:04 AM: Hehe, many years ago I took the oob for war in mexico so had plans for french foreign legion and egyptians etc fighting the yankees ;D
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 12:14:27 PM: Quote from: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 11:23:04 AM
Hehe, many years ago I took the oob for war in mexico so had plans for french foreign legion and egyptians etc fighting the yankees ;D

You don't hold back do you? lol

Darrell.

PS. Which club are you in matey?
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 12:23:57 PM: None now tend to game with paleskin, but used to game regulary down in tring hertfordshire, a good club
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 01:09:37 PM: Quote from: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 12:23:57 PM
None now tend to game with paleskin, but used to game regulary down in tring hertfordshire, a good club

Have I met Paleskin? ???

Darrell.
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 06:37:36 PM: You might have owns rogue minis dodgy geezer ;D
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Atheling on 11 January 2015, 06:46:49 PM: Quote from: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 06:37:36 PM
You might have owns rogue minis dodgy geezer ;D

Not sure..... I'm all prim and proper don't you know ;) :)

Darrell.
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: huevans on 17 January 2015, 01:38:48 PM: Quote from: Lowtardog on 11 January 2015, 10:52:01 AM
Heres a canny article
http://www.wfgamers.org.uk/resources/C19/britacw.htm

The interesting question is how long official doctrine would have lasted in the face of harsh reality. I would not have expected the mounted cavalry charge to have remained a useful tactic beyond the first few weeks.

The line-based British infantry tactics might have been effective; but the French attack in column sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Title: Re: BIF in the Early ACW?
Post by: Pictors Studio on 18 January 2015, 11:18:43 PM: It isn't really the same thing, but it is the same time frame. The British intervened in the Tai Ping Rebellion at the time the ACW was going on. If you have a look at how some of the forces there fought it might be instructive.

Now the Tai Ping, with matchlock muskets, are going to be a different game to Union infantry with rifled muskets so the comparison will be a little wonky but there probably is some information to be gained.