The Battle of Nashville 1864 – featured mat
This is one of our newest, wave 2, mats! The mat represents the terrain of the historical battle of Nashville in 1864 during the first day’s fighting on the Confederate left…
We are working on Wave 3…. and something very special is planned!
We have been burning the midnight oil here at Cigar Box Battle and we have something very special planned in conjunction with Osprey Publishing. Here is an easy clue to…
Auction to save Gen. Lee’s HQ at Gettysburg!
Stephen Huckaby of ACWGamer.com sent me the following today – ACW Gamer subscriber, Roger Mark, has created a diorama to auction on Ebay. The majority of the auction proceeds…
A game of “Longstreet” in 28mm
Wayne Bolland and his gaming group sent us these iPhone pics from a recent 28mm game of Sam Mustafa’s fine ACW rule set “Longstreet”. They had been playing “Across A Deadly…
ADF – Scenarios for the War in the East
John Hill and Osprey have an exciting release planned to support their new ACW rules “Across A Deadly Field”. It will be a scenario book entitled “Across A Deadly Field – Scenarios…
ACW Frontages
Regiments and Frontages – How Much Space Did a Battle Line Actually Take up? American Civil War enthusiasts have been debating frontages for many decades, and the answer that would be…
ADF ACW – The Odd Guns
Mike Bradford created this chart, in the spirit of JR2, for some of the odd weapons of the ACW. He was putting together a scenario for Gaines’ Mill and wanted…
Across A Deadly Field – It’s here!
We just received word that John Hill’s new American Civil War rules have been released on Amazon (USA) by Osprey Publishing! That’s great news for the ACW gaming community! We…
Ask John Hill – ADF Questions & Clarifications
“Ask John Hill” will be a new regular column on CigarBoxBattle and will serve as a successor to the same type column found in “The Zouave” and Scott Mingus’ excellent “Charge!”…
Cigar Box Battle Mats – How to get the most from your mats
We have had quite a few people ask us how to get the most out of their mats, so we decided that a new blog post was in order! The core concept…
A few pictures of the ADF Gettysburg game at Historicon
Here are some pictures of Patrick Lebeau’s incredible 15mm “Across A Deadly Field” game at Historicon. These were taken by Christian Waters from Osprey Publishing. Thanks for sharing Christian! The…
NEW ADF Reference Charts
Hey Gamers! Now that Historicon is over, we’ve just been given the honor of being the first source for some very good additions to the ADF resource library. We…