They really do, really inspiring

Cheers, mainly letting Contrast and Agrax earthshade do hard work.

That's good to hear, I was thinking of people like you when.i started the.videos.

No problem, I love talking wargames, lockdown has me lacking as many opportunities as I would like!!!

Hopefully the boxes drop soon! America does seem pretty good with looking after their battlefields. I was at Culloden a couple of years ago, and that is good, but always struggling with planning permissions, and local building works.

How are you getting on Chris?

@@Unclecthulu well, I haven't been able to play yet, I'm still painting up my armies. Your videos are certainly helpful though, so thank you!

Sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a trick to log back into an Instagram account? I was stupid forgot my password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me!

@Rene Kohen Instablaster ;)

@Landry Izaiah thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and im in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

I was in 2 minds myself, I have 2 10mm armies, well Pendraken Confederate, and Kallistra Union, but I am loving the look of the massed effects of the models. What rules do you normally use?

@@Unclecthulu can't deny that the massed effect looks awesome! It's almost enough to push me into it Haha! I usually use fire & fury for acw, it's quite a nice rule set...have used bp aswell but we used cm instead of inches. Have warlord released any pictures of how the cavalry will look?

@@danharris8805 no pictures of mounted cavalry yet. I played regimental F+F back in the 90s, with my original 15mm, as well as Johnny Reb. I have Brigade F+F now, not played it yet.

I hadn't but I will look them down.

That's what I was thinking. It's good to.have variety in the.ACW. Though I am.all about the Napoleonics at the moment.

Good call. Will look at that soon.

That should be done now. I took the opportunity to sort out the rest of the videos as well.

No, i am pretty cool with the gaps. Other armies I have done have them. I also think there would be slight gaps between companies as well. Are you doing 3 or 5 bases for a regular unit???

@@Unclecthulu I am on a standard table, so if doing regiments would have 3 bases standard (180 mm), which is actually a bit longer than one of my 28mm regiments (150mm)! What I am thinking though is to go for larger battles, represent forces by the brigade and so each individual Epic 60mm base would be a regiment, that is pretty much how use my own Kallistra armies (1 regiment on 2 x 40mm bases), with the regiments grouped into brigades, so having the 5 bases together as a brigade (rather than a regiment) would not be uncommon.

@@norm977 I plan to do Antietam battle, and I was thinking the same, each stand a regiment in a Brigade, then each unit is a Brigade.

@@norm977 oh and yes, I did notice that with the width of the units as well.

20mm, I picked up extras from warbases. I also picked up some 30x20mm bases, to make half stands so I could use other rules. Video coming this weekend.

Thank you for your answer!

Yep, any rules could work, I always struggle to get into too fat Lardies rules. I feel they are better to be shown than read.

@@Unclecthulu OMG! You actually replied. Thank you so much. And you are sooo right. I thought it was just me. The lard rules are confusing as hell. I will give black powder a jolly good try. I hope that if I get stuck. And I know I will. I can ask you for some help. The boxes will arrive tomorrow evening. I’m so excited.

I thought of 4 bases, but I do love the colours being in the middle!

@@Unclecthulu Now with the 3. Wave of preorders and the extra command stripes coming I think I will go for 3 bases as a standart regiment ( 1 for tiny, 2 for small and 4 for large) and make in this regard 2 tiny units out of one Skirmisher box. Probably I am going also to half all distances then for my 6x4 table.

@@a.e.130 extra command bases is a pretty good move. Looking forward to getting my Zouves in!

Yes I will, well use cms or half ranges. As long as units ate consistent. BP makes no bones that it is a game and not a simulation.

It was for me as well, having Pendraken confed and Kallistra Union. In opposing armies it was never an issue with size differences, but I always knew. So I have spent this weekend rebasing the Kallistra, and will use Warlord for mainly Confederate.

Still it's always nice to try some stuff with the Wargames Illustrated freebies as well.

Warlord will do a lot of stuff you will need. Skirmishers, cavalry, limbers, Zouves etc. I am going to keep to Warlord as much as possible(at least with the Confederates, I am rebasing my union as we speak) I will be using Kallistra for 'spice', as someone in a forum labelled it With doing 3 base regiments, extra command is a must. The command also come with mounted command, and these can also be used as other pose brigadiers. Casulties can be used as well to create stamina markers. Mount on a penny, and you can lay a dice with it. Extra Artillery with give you poses and break up the same looking gun models from Warlord. I am also doing 1/2 bases so I can use other rules (video coming), and will pick up some general line figures. So I do think Warlord has most bases covered, from what I have heard, just need to see them.

Penny mounting, another excellent tip. Caesar commands you to get cracking on another video.

I would start off with 12 units aside. Confed 3 brigades of 4 and 3.batteries. Union 4 brigades of 3 with 4 batteries. Giving the union a.slight lead in guns. Make sure Confederate.units have rebel yell. Then.take.it from there. When you know what your doing BP gallops along.at.pace.

More than l’d hoped, as I’m a slow painter, not good, just slow

Just buy the CSA or the USA brigades I got a union brigade for 20$ Dollars or 14.49£ so you can play about with it and decide if you want to play, if you do than buy the starter set.