More of the hidden greatness of Grant - as president this time.

 Worthy video to see, and Lawrence Wilkerson goes into some of the Grant Presidency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVbXz5Pvx0

In Honor of the man.

 

Restart of a campaign project, forces assemble

 Many decades after starting with assembling some models, then stopping, changing occupations, marriage and three children, the restart of a project gets to a usable stage.

army command stands completed for
Bull Run, 1861

See the full forces assembled at Murdock's Marauders

Forces assemble

 The stop-start of the earlier campaign has given way to having the tools needed to run any battle in the future.

With that aim, the Union forces for Bull Run (1861) have been assembled and mustered.

Full details HERE.

wonderful imagery

 The latest campaign has produced some battles.

a great image from the tabletop

More details about these battles and the mapping/game-system will be coming soon.

New attempt at a campaign

 Again there will be a new attempt at a campaign.

This time starting in 1861, with a new map and some different concepts.

Playing along again for me, though I did design a cyberboard gamebox for the game-master to use.

screenshot of the cyberboard system

The map was designed by another player, I imported it and then did some pieces backs on the Napoleonic ones I did for Campaign of Nations.

First Campaign 'style' game attempt.

The first attempt at a campaign style game was made on July 19, 2020.

Your humble author participated via remote.

Map for the game

The concept for set-up revolved around 'deployment points' which were earned and either defended or taken away via cavalry brigades scouting efforts.

Then the forces deployed based on their points value, with 0 needed to just march on at the main arrival point.

This cross-roads saw the Union really get hammered by the Confederate scouting, so much that it took all the points just to get a flank corps into the woods and a couple of cavalry brigades on the map.  While the Confederates had a full division of foot, with artillery entrenched on a nearby hill.

The battle after action report can be found here:
ACW AAR

I also generated a sheet for the 15mm movement stands: