One Sided Miniature Wargaming Discourse

Well... Hot on the heels of the revelations of the supply rules and more importantly the attrition rules comes another shock: I have been do...

With a new appreciation of the attrition rules, some changes are underway. Sherman with his 30,000 troops with 3 fatigue checks for attritio...

The poor weather is over. Banks invades Louisiana.   Huribut crosses the Black River. Grant moves troops about to secure his hold on Memphis...

March is the last winter month. Neither side receives any reinforcements. Hurlbut continues his slow move towards the Mississippi.  Lyon dig...

Sedgewick receives a commission and Burnside is retired.  The Union call up another 40,000 militia. Hurlbut returns to Missouri. Foote attac...

Hurlbut tries to get back in supply from Springfield, MO.   Before Grant can contemplate further action against Memphis, he needs Foote to d...

Winter returns.  Supply becomes an issue.  40,000 more militia are raised to help fight for the Union. In a move that has the Confederates s...

The Union call up a further 40,000 militia and appoint McClernand and Reynolds (posted to Washington) as well as creating the Army of the Cu...

In the East the Union are at a loss to know what to do, so they just bring up some reinforcements and dig in a bit more. In Texas, Franklin ...

The Union call up 40,000 militia.  Heintzelman is appointed (he should have arrived early but I picked Hooker by mistake), but promptly put ...

The Union call up 90,000 militia.  Rosecrans replaces Burnside as the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hurlbut with his 20,000 men star...

Troops are sent to Hurlbut for the reconquest of Fayetteville. Buell moves to Ft Donelson to relieve McCook who chases after the isolated Co...

Both sides launch new ship squadrons, but the Confederates get Lee, Longstreet and Stuart who form the Army of Virginia's command. Out i...

The only reinforcements this month are single squadrons of ship for each side, McCook and Buell are reinforced and the latter resupplied.  H...

The winter has passed. Logan goes back to Columbus, TN, to get more troops which have been ferried there. Grant rests his army, but also tak...

The Union appointment another three commanders and launch a memorable ironclad at Ft Monroe. The Confederates get another trickle of volunte...

The Confederacy receives a further 20,000 volunteers while the Union appoints three more generals and commissions more ironclad river steame...

In the Far West Sigel keeps reorganising his troops.  It is slow work with hungry men. Curtis withdraws to Columbus.  Grant takes reinforcem...

The Union call up another 90,000 militia while the Confederacy receive 30,000 volunteers.  It is all in the numbers. Winter has come, impedi...