At long last, our second installment in Altar of Freedom's campaign series is available for download. I'm very pleased to announce that--like most of our other supporting content--this supplement is 100% free for all players. 

After the break, read more about our latest campaign, what's different from before, and how you can test your mettle as Lee or Meade in this fascinating, vast campaign.

When previewing what's ahead in 2017 for Altar of Freedom at the end of last year, I promised a new scenario would be made available this winter.  That scenario can now be downloaded as a PDF from our Free Downloads page--The Battle of Globe Tavern. This is a fascinating action in the Petersburg campaign, where Grant tasked Meade with cutting a critical railroad supplying the Confederates in the city. With Lee distracted north of Petersburg, command of the city was left to General P.G.T. Beauregard. He acted swiftly to counter the Federal threat and this small scenario puts players in the midst of a very interesting, two-day battle. 

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!] 

As I foreshadowed in late October, hard copies of Altar of Freedom are once again available in printed, book format. I needed to find an easy printing solution that also solved issues with international distribution and am pleased to say that Lulu.com answered those problems nicely. Lulu is a print-on-demand service that ships around the world. There are some other POD services out there and I communicated with several of them and ran proof copies at two. In the end, Lulu fulfilled orders faster and with a nicer product. You can now order a print copy of the rules directly from Lulu's site and have it shipped to you within a week. 

The return of the print version of the rules will no doubt lead to some questions for players who may have already purchased a copy before. To find out what's different and what's the same, read on below.