Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Updating ACW rules




Every now and then, I make enough changes and tweaks to my Two Flags - One Nation rules, to necessitate the reprinting out of a new draft.


In a last minute exercise, I threw down a game to just make sure that nothing was immediately outstanding or awkward after the changes. Plenty of terrain was used so that the ‘difficult’ terrain, disorder and skirmish rules would be put through their rigours.


There have been some other changes, such as weapon ranges and the relationship with movement. The management of movement has been streamlined to be easier and less parade ground orientated.


So, there have been enough changes and red ink scrawled over rule pages to justify a reprint. 


This time though, I am going to do something a little different and get these printed by a Print on Demand service, rather than using my own printer - simply to give me a nicer presentation for the next round of development.


The game was useful as it identified a careless mistake that I had made regarding skirmisher fire. I suspect the mistake was actually made on my napoleonic set and then dragged across to the ACW set as I try to keep the engine of both sets pretty much aligned.


The following are just a collection of table shots from the game and as always, are clickable.



















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