Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton

This is the first post of one of my new projects for 2016 following on from my Christmas presents.

The Perry’s first battle in a box for the American Civil War (ACW).  I have chosen this as the ACW has attracted me more in the last few years after reading Bernard Cornwall’s Starbuck series of books (my youngest son is called Nathaniel!).

I thought the box looked good from the fact for just under £100 you can get a good starting force for each side, with infantry, cavalry and artillery along with some great plastic looking scenary.  What else could you ask for but a full box?

The box is very full, and on looking through the sprues they are packed and as expected from the Perry twins lovely looking figures.  The pictures of the different units as shown in the above picture giving you help wiht painting is great as is the flag sheet that is provided.

As to whether I will use the flags which are provided I am usure of as yet as I may base my troops on different regimenrs.  If I had to pick a side I would pick the Confederate’s as having my soft spot and with that Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson would be my leader of choice.  With this in mind I am looking to look into the Stonewall Brigae from the 1st Battle of Manassas.

As to the rules I am going to build up the units as described by the rules that come with the box.

I think with this if I want to build on the original size for the units it would be easy to add to them for example Black Powder.

So that’s the introduction – next stop having a look through the box and bulding up some of the units and terrain.

A map

So recently I have been thinking more of my own home brew world for D&D or Pathfinder.  I have been trying to come up with some back stories for different places within the world but have strggled when trying to picture where every where was.

So a piece of inspiration came to me, a map!  Yes, a map!  Something so simple.

So below I would like to welcome you to the south west region of Anios.

One thing to bare in mind is it is a bit rough at the moment, but the basis of where places are is what I needed.

The mountains at the top will be the lands of the Dwarfs.  The islands in the west the lands of the Elves and the remianing below the river will be the lands of Men.

You can just make out the city in the corner of the river.  This will be called Clearwater and will be governed by members of each of the three major races as mentioned above.

I think this will be the first place I will be exanding on.