Cigar Box Battle and Command Combat: Civil War
Jeff McArthur at Command Combat: Civil War makes a fantastic product that works great with our terrain mats. You can play Command Combat with miniatures, but Jeff also has PDF images of miniature units…
The Battle of New Market, VA, May 15, 1864
“Put the boys in!” Today we are featuring one of our newest terrain mats, the classic American Civil War battle of New Market. This mat was designed for the “Across…
Gettysburg! Cigar Box Battle and Osprey Publishing join forces!
Cigar Box Battle and Osprey Publishing are proud to announce the release of three new terrain mats! These are Gettysburg mats designed to fight out all of the “Gettysburg –…
News Flash! Gettysburg mats now released! #Gettysburg
Head on over to our webstore to check out the officially licensed “Across A Deadly Field” Gettysburg – the First Day Mats! Osprey Publishing and Cigar Box Battle are extremely…
American Civil War Campaigns
Wayne Bollands at Wargames Illustrated has been sharing his gaming groups campaign news with us here at Cigar Box Battle and it has been quite enjoyable to follow along. So…
How to Run a Convention Game
A light hearted look at running a historical miniatures convention game – A friend of mine, who has never run a game at a convention, asked me for some pointers…
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…
ADF 15mm Johnny Reb III Compatible Reference Charts
There seems to be a desire by more than a few folks to use 15mm Johnny Reb III four stand regiments with the ADF mechanics. John Hill decided to modify…
Do CBB Mats work well for RPG’s? Yes!
I have been asked by a few local gamers if our mats would work well with Role Playing Games and the answer is a resounding…. “yes”! True, many gamers use our…
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!”…
Playing ADF with 15mm Johnny Reb III Units
Many gamers have their 15mm regiments mounted for Johnny Reb III (JRIII) and while they prefer the look of JRIII’s large four stand regiments, they would like to use Across A…