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2014 News & Previews

12/29/2013

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Western Battles
As 2013 winds to a close, Altar of Freedom has been available for three months and many exciting developments remain ahead. What's on tap for 2014?

Our massive Western Battles supplement, Atlanta is Ours, remains on track for a January 2014 release. The 18 largest battles of the Western theater will all be featured in this single PDF! The format of this book will be "print friendly," with white page backgrounds.

Also in January, our original Eastern Battles supplement will be fully updated with "print friendly" white backgrounds and a number of errata corrections, fixing some mistakes and misprints. Our Free Downloads page has already been updated with a PDF to review the errata updates for All Quiet Along the Potomac. 


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Comparing 6mm Ship Scales

12/19/2013

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Back in 2012 I was gearing up for a big Shiloh anniversary game and found myself wondering what scale ships to buy to go along with my 6mm troops. The USS Tyler and Lexington famously cruised the river during the battle, lobbing shells at the oncoming Confederates as Johnston's army neared Pittsburgh Landing. The actual effect of the Union gunboats remains debatable, but any war-gamer worth his salt wants to have them on the table!

And like any respectable gamer, I knew the only solution was to buy models in two scales--1/600 and 1/1200. I've posted a picture gallery here to compare the two scales. My 1/600 ships are gorgeous sculpts from Thoroughbred, while the much smaller 1/1200 models are Houston's ships, distributed by Stone Mountain. You're free to judge for yourself, but in a 6mm grand tactical game, I much prefer the size of the Houston ships. For exclusive Ironclad gaming (our club enjoys Peter Pig's "Hammerin' Iron" rules), we love using Thoroughbred. Click on any photo in the gallery below to expand into a larger image!


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