From GaryA: Third Submission - 15mm ACW Confederate Infantry: "Arresting, breathtaking, awesome" Thrilled of Tunbridge Wells. (308pts)

 

Despite rumours to the contrary, I haven't been abducted by aliens or the FSB, nor have I been detained at Her Majesty's pleasure. Instead, I've been beavering away at Peter Pig ACW infantry. All painted as Confederate, but drawn from both the Union and Confederate listings to give more variety because churning out infantry is frequently less than exciting.

They represent about a quarter of the number of bases I'll need for Early's Division and are deliberately generic as they'll be used for both 'Pickett's Charge' and 'Fire and Fury' rules, but I think I've already mentioned that.

While I've got the chance, I ought to make a few comments about the Peter Pig ACW range. It's a pretty complete catalogue and just about all the figures are great, but I admit they might not be to everybody's taste. They're 15mm, not the more fashionable 18mm, which makes them difficult to mix with other manufacturers' figures. So, you can mix units, but not figures within a unit.

There are four shortcomings from my point of view:

• the horses aren't the best I've seen, although you can make a decent job of them;

• the available artillery models are fairly restricted – the usual Parrotts and 3” Rifles and the Napoleon, but then only a 6 pdr smoothbore and a James Rifle (which rapidly fell out of favour and ceased production in 1862). Not the end of the world, but 12 and 24 pounder howitzers would be useful. This sort of thing is only for aesthetics, I suppose, but it'd be nice;

• the staffs on the standard bearers are generally too short. They're OK for the cavalry and Confederate infantry standards/battle flags, but anything else will require either an undersize flag or a replacement staff;

• the range of zouaves is pretty poor and you're going to need to put up with the limited choice, use another range or get stuck in to head swaps.

That said, I still like the range very much: they're robust wargame figures (even I haven't managed to break one) yet with bags of character and detail. Now the sexy bit: a couple of shock and awe piccies so Tamsin can count the figures and then some examples of the bases for the units.

So, the scores on the doors:

2 x mounted figures @ 4pts=      8pts

150 x infantry figures @ 2pts= 300pts

Total                                       308pts

 

Thank goodness - the first proper points-bomb of the day! I was getting rather worried.

That's a great collection of Rebs, Gary - nice work!

Tamsin

Thanks Tamsin. They're easy to paint and it's strangely relaxing. After the infantry it's the cavalry and the artillery teams. I'll see if I'm relaxed then! 😬