A long time ago, I mean a loooooooong time ago I painted a few figures (they were called 25mm then) for an ACW skirmish.
People got bored with ACW & I started acquiring their skirmish figures. When there became too many singly based soldiers, for a 2 hour game,
I toyed with sabot bases. A couple of years later I got fed up with loading & unloading the sabot bases for games. I bit the bullet & rebased
the troops up on 40mm x 40mm bases. Along came Rebels & Patriots, a set of rules I really like. I kept adding troops, well they were a bargain!
Especially as I got a lot in exchange for building their previous owner some scenery.
I thought I had three Union & three Confederate 'forces'. Maybe I could incorporate the 'new' figures into options for them.
This I had been promising myself for a over a year. Last month I finally got everything out & had a good look.
Shock!!!!
Not one of my 'forces' equalled the standard 24pts for Rebels & Patriots.
Back to the drawing board. Unpainted / Part painted / Damaged / very old shirmish figures...all were looked at.
A month of work & I am nearly there.
In stout Really Useful Boxes, each with its own record sheet, named officer & casualty markers, FIVE Union & FIVE Confederate 24pt forces.
This is NOT the end of my meddling in the ACW.
Thanks to my mate James (aka Flatpack) I have the start of a unit of Rush's Lancers.
Somewhere in the Lead Mountain are two six horse limbers, but I am finishred for the present. Surplus troops are earmarked:-
Two forces, One Union & One Confederate, are going to Sam (aka Donkeymilkman) to start him down this madness road.
A file box of part & unpainted figures are going to James (aka Voidkafan) to pick through & survivors to go to the great eBay in the sky.
Pictures (proof) to follow.
