New Antietam AAR

11/16/2016

It's a busy week here at 6mmACW...in addition to the long overdue return of the Altar of Freedom print edition, we also have a brand new battle report available. The bloodiest day in American history--September 17, 1862--played out as a fantastic, nail-biting game at our gaming club. Photos and a brief video teaser are now posted to the After Action page. Be sure to check it out!

In a few days, we'll also be posting a detailed tutorial for how to make 6mm cornfields, which happen to be especially useful at Antietam--home of a field so famous and so bloody that it continues to be known simply as "the cornfield."

[UPDATE: The tutorial is now available!]

5 Comments

Mitch

11/18/2016 08:55:11 am

Looking forward to the full video. I always enjoy those. Thanks for the cornfield tutorial. I will certainly be putting that to use. Have you tackled the "winter trees" issue yet...lol?

Mitch

GrW

11/18/2016 03:16:38 pm

Thanks, Mitch. The winter trees continue to elude me, but I am also working on some other bedeviling terrain issues. Just finished a good method for making lakes/ponds and I'm working on railroads.

Mitch

11/18/2016 04:36:01 pm

Nice. I was contemplating railroads too.

Andy Fuller

11/29/2016 12:02:12 am

Great tutorial on the cornfields. Looking forward to giving Antietam a run out. Incidentally I have produced armies for the Western theatre using the Peter Pig 3mm ACW figures, which give a really big battle effect. Initially looking at Shiloh.

will corlett

1/14/2017 12:01:43 pm

Just caught your comment Andy, I to have been playing AoF with 3mm, but using the Oddial osmy range (Picoarmor or Fighting 15s stock them). The peter pig blocks are easier to paint but for me you get better customisation for the OO range. That said I have also got large forces made up of the Irregular Miniatures 2mm range

I generally play at haf scale - due to shortage of space - but have found that this does not change the way the rules work - why shold it) but as you say given the chance playing with 60mm bases loaded with 3mm fgures is quite spectacular.

Shiloh is a good scenario, but I have found either Stones River or Chickamauga to be more tense and enjoyable, but each to their own

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