ACW skirmish rules

[ronan]

Have you tried this? It's a company based game. But if you have 'Songs of drums and shakos' , you could play it as a skirmish game. http://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?products_id=28

I also wanted to add this. SBH games are great.


Then Drums and Shakos Large battle can be use to "scale up" for the ACW ( almost the same engine as 61-65 )
( I had some solo games : http://2d6.fr/?p=1532 for example )

[getagrip]

I also wanted to add this. SBH games are great.


Then Drums and Shakos Large battle can be use to "scale up" for the ACW ( almost the same engine as 61-65 )
( I had some solo games : http://2d6.fr/?p=1532 for example )

Thanks Ronan, my French not being up to it but the pictures tell a thousand words

Lovely looking battles.

Je suis Charlie aussi 

[petercooman]

I know i mention this family of rules a lot, but USE ME ACW is skirmish:

http://15mmcouk.blogspot.co.uk/p/15mmcouk-digital-downloads.html

It's however the only one that's not available as a little book, only as a pdf download. But at 5$ , you can't complain, can you?

[getagrip]

It's however the only one that's not available as a little book, only as a pdf download. But at 5$ , you can't complain, can you?

True

Will it handle skirmish and larger scale?

[nikharwood]

If you can still get them, 'Brother Against Brother' was a great set of rules. Although aimed at 28mm skirmish ACW I am sure they would scale down nicely to 10mm. Tends to use units of 10 men/figures singly based but you could use circular bases with 2,3 or 4 figures a base?

Seconded - have enjoyed many games of Brother Against Brother over the years 

[GordonY]

You could try Civil War Battles by Peter Pig http://www.peterpig.co.uk/rules.htm

Ok they're not skirmish, but the figure count for an army is pretty low, typically there's only about 15-18 figure per unit and some scenarios only about 4 or 5 units a side.

So what bits of the rules do I like

1) They force the attacker to go all out (game end is done by a countdown, starting value minus a d6 roll at the end of each turn)
2) Nice and easy uniforms to paint 
3) Not a lot of faffing about, you#re in cannon range at the start of the game
4) Nice simple rules
5) since a unit is an entire brigade its possible to play quite large battle on the standard (5ft x 3ft) table
6) Fairly cheap these days at £18

they're written (obviously) for 15mm, but I'd just drop the base size down a little for 10mm and use the distances as written (smaller bases would mean even bigger battles)

[getagrip]

You could try Civil War Battles by Peter Pig http://www.peterpig.co.uk/rules.htm

Ok they're not skirmish, but the figure count for an army is pretty low, typically there's only about 15-18 figure per unit and some scenarios only about 4 or 5 units a side.

So what bits of the rules do I like

1) They force the attacker to go all out (game end is done by a countdown, starting value minus a d6 roll at the end of each turn)
2) Nice and easy uniforms to paint 
3) Not a lot of faffing about, you#re in cannon range at the start of the game
4) Nice simple rules
5) since a unit is an entire brigade its possible to play quite large battle on the standard (5ft x 3ft) table
6) Fairly cheap these days at £18

they're written (obviously) for 15mm, but I'd just drop the base size down a little for 10mm and use the distances as written (smaller bases would mean even bigger battles)

Thanks Gordon; worth a look and, at that price, not going to smash the bank

[petercooman]

True

Will it handle skirmish and larger scale?

I think most of their rules handle skirmish and larger scale.

The ww2 version i have can be used as:

-one activation per model for skirmish
-one activation per group of models for larger.

I have read that the fantasy set does this too.

[getagrip]

I think most of their rules handle skirmish and larger scale.

The ww2 version i have can be used as:

-one activation per model for skirmish
-one activation per group of models for larger.

I have read that the fantasy set does this too.

Thanks Peter.  It's going to be a tough decision but I think I will buy 2 or 3 rulesets (as they aren't really expensive) to use for comparison