ACW ‘Stuff’….

A modest but useful title - pocket-sized and costing £1. 

Yesterday, Laurel and I headed out to our local boot sale where I scored the title you see above. By no means is this a definitive history of the war between the states but it does look at events from the war in 16 of them, along with some 74 maps and photos. It also contains details on the various battlefield sites and parks etc. It is a useful guidebook to the civil war in those areas and whilst basic certainly comes across as a great primer for the period.

Work on the final model required for the grand finale of Developing the Portable Ironclad Wargame: The American Civil War, is well in hand and the scenario is being fine tuned to be run at the club on May 21.

Converted from a dry dock the CSS Memphis also had a much larger ‘sister’ - the CSS New Orleans.

Aside from the fort the Confederates will also have the services of the floating battery you see above - the CSS Memphis.

The order of battle has been settled and I am also finalising the terrain. The area to be fought over will be 21 x 12 hexes so plenty of room to move about in - which is just as well as there will be 12 ships taking part!