Cadet Tony Belcher on the firing line
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:31 am
Hi all,
A long time player of John Tiller games, mostly Napoleonic with some dub dub 2, who would like to sharpen their Civil War tactical skills.
Having become somewhat skilled at using cavalry to force Napoleonic line infantry into squares I'm finding the need to go back to school for this different era. Civil War cavalry doesn't seem to work like that
I started playing PC wargames in the mid 1990s - in the old Talonsoft days - but somehow never quite got onto Battleground Gettysburg. After that I took a long detour into the world of tabletop miniature wargames - ancients in 15mm metal mainly (rulesets: DBA, DBM, FoG), with... again... some WW2.
The tabletop club scene here in Australia is becoming somewhat old and moribund so I'm moving back to PC games. There's a vast world of game groups and clubs in cyberspace these days. Plus no need to paint and base my pixel armies, which means more time for actual gaming. I'm going to miss the craft aspects of painting up armies and making terrain but there's no getting around the fact that it's a giant time-sink.
cheers
Tony
A long time player of John Tiller games, mostly Napoleonic with some dub dub 2, who would like to sharpen their Civil War tactical skills.
Having become somewhat skilled at using cavalry to force Napoleonic line infantry into squares I'm finding the need to go back to school for this different era. Civil War cavalry doesn't seem to work like that
I started playing PC wargames in the mid 1990s - in the old Talonsoft days - but somehow never quite got onto Battleground Gettysburg. After that I took a long detour into the world of tabletop miniature wargames - ancients in 15mm metal mainly (rulesets: DBA, DBM, FoG), with... again... some WW2.
The tabletop club scene here in Australia is becoming somewhat old and moribund so I'm moving back to PC games. There's a vast world of game groups and clubs in cyberspace these days. Plus no need to paint and base my pixel armies, which means more time for actual gaming. I'm going to miss the craft aspects of painting up armies and making terrain but there's no getting around the fact that it's a giant time-sink.
cheers
Tony