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Offline General Lee

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Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« on: 18 January 2014, 10:39:52 PM »
Gentlemen,

On Friday January 17 we at BOD Utrecht played a huge Black Powder game. We played one of the pivotal battles of the ACW, Antietam (September 17, 1862) It was spread out on three tables. Great fun, great evening. The result was a draw which is in line with history. one of the club members wrote an excellent battle report, please visit his blog on: http://janwillembootsblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/battle-of-antietam-creek-september-17-1862-a-black-powder-event-wargames-society-bod-utrecht-the-netherlands/








































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Offline joroas

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #1 on: 18 January 2014, 11:57:37 PM »
Words ....fail me here.

What a fantastic post of an incredible game.........  :-*
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Offline Phil Robinson

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2014, 12:02:24 AM »
A stirring sight indeed.

Offline Helen

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #3 on: 19 January 2014, 12:04:58 AM »
Great show for a fab genre.

Cheers,

Helen
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Offline Raz

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #4 on: 19 January 2014, 10:29:33 AM »
Awesome! That's a great looking game, lot of nice scenery and well painted miniatures. Great stuff. Your new scenery pieces were well worth the effort :)

Offline Painter Jim

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #5 on: 19 January 2014, 05:30:40 PM »
General, very spectacular looking figures, terrain and very inspiring to boot.  :-*

Offline Brian Smaller

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #6 on: 19 January 2014, 08:05:27 PM »
Wow. Loved the pictures. Wargaming at it's best.

Offline Arteis

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #7 on: 19 January 2014, 09:34:00 PM »
Exceptionally nicely presented game.  It looks heerlijk!

What company produces the Confederate flag shown in the 16th picture - the one with the excellent shading and crease marks?
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Offline General Lee

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #8 on: 19 January 2014, 09:44:53 PM »
Exceptionally nicely presented game.  It looks heerlijk!

What company produces the Confederate flag shown in the 16th picture - the one with the excellent shading and crease marks?

Thank you guys for your kind words!

@ Arteis. The flag is by GMB Designs. exceptional quality: http://www.gmbdesigns.com/

Offline Galloping Major

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #9 on: 20 January 2014, 06:36:40 AM »
Great pics - especially those close-ups   8)




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Offline Elbows

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Re: Battle of Antietam: Black Powder
« Reply #10 on: 22 January 2014, 08:49:08 AM »
I just wish I occasionally remembered to take pictures of games!  That looks simply marvelous.  One of these days I'll actually get into Civil War gaming.  Always been interested in it, but been put off by the prospect of painting it.  Perhaps I'll have to find some skirmish rules for the Civil War, lol.

Great looking stuff.
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