Thanks chaps, and thank you Mr Bickley for the rules and your knid comments. I have been an ACW buff for a very long time, but have always fitted it in around other periods. This collection is my fourth version, and I have been working on it for about ten years now, on and off. But in the last couple of years I have decided to make it my main period and focus, so lots more figures acquired, all I have to do now is paint them. I am aiming for at least 20 regiments of infantry, three of cavalry and about 6 batteries of artillery a side. Then I shall add more I expect, and vignettes and details etc.