Category Archives: American Civil War

Longstreet campaign game 9 – The final fight in the woods

Posted on December 8, 2015 by

Well after a year 2 years of elapsed time I am happy (and a little sad) to write up the final game in our campaign for Longstreet. Overall, I have to say that Ernie and myself have thoroughly enjoyed the … Continue reading →

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Longstreet campaign game 8 – a meeting engagement

Posted on October 5, 2015 by

It’s been a while since the last one, but here is another report of the latest game in the ongoing ACW Longstreet campaign we are playing. Note, this is a long post with a decent amount of photo’s of the … Continue reading →

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Longstreet campaign game 7 – battle for the farm house

Posted on May 24, 2015 by

So after another gap playing other games, including Sam’s new game Blucher, Ernie and I continued our campaign and had the first game in 1864. Note, some of the photo’s in this are a little off on colour – my … Continue reading →

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Battle Cry Rebel forces

Posted on April 19, 2015 by

Continuing the last post here are the Rebel forces for the Battle Cry game. Battle Cry is one of the ‘command and colours’ games, this one set in the American Civil War. I must admit I do like these games. … Continue reading →

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Battle Cry Union forces

Posted on April 11, 2015 by

I bought the 150th Anniversary Edition of the Battle Cry game (a command an colours game for the ACW) a while back and wanted to play this. However, as it comes with mini’s my self imposed rules about playing games … Continue reading →

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Longstreet campaign game 6: Woody ridge-line fighting

Posted on March 1, 2015 by

Yippee, I can report that we have completed another campaign game of Longstreet. It’s been a long time since the last game and we had a couple of aborted attempts due to my work and other things but it’s finally … Continue reading →

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Longstreet field works

Posted on February 11, 2015 by

Just a quick one today. As the Longstreet campaign I’m doing slowly progresses through the war, field works are going to start to become more of a factor – especially for my Confederates as they are already heavily outnumbered.  I … Continue reading →

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