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Brilliant mate - agreed that the battle had a really different feel to it - once you got to closer ranges and melee troops really started melting away. I will be interested in your thoughts on the Warlord epic stuff - I bought the French Waterloo epic starter box of 1000 troops and have painted about 280 so far - really enjoy them as a break from the 28mm stuff. I have even cut strips to put mounted commanders in the units so some conversion work can be quite easily done. Have a great Thanksgiving week.

Great Narrative Steve! Union QM needs to get the ammo situation sorted 😄

It does looks great at this scale! Pivot is part of the move action. Second move is just 50% (so move 6 means first move 6, second move 3). The free pivot is pivot then move or move then pivot. I think chacrters can also pivot as a reaction to enemies activating (slowing the game down so we house ruled that one).

What a great game loved to see the thought that had to go in to maneuvering regiments. I have a box of ACW and AWI packed up for you email where to send them. To me Fire and Fury is one of the best linear warfare rule sets.

Well presented narrative 👍.

Superb , but slightly surprised by the high casualties given the number of time "fire" from some units was deemed as "desultory" (i.e. aimless, haphazard).

First, that is a beautiful battlefield, and Second, CALvary is a place in the Bible. CAValry is when soldiers ride horsies into battle and such. Third, I was involved with this reenactment for a number of years, as a part of a mountain howitzers crew. If you can find minis of mountain howitzers, I suggest doing so. They are so much lighter than regular 12 pound Napoleon howitzer, yet the mountain howitzer can fire a 12 pound shrapnel or spherical case shot just a couple hundred yards less than the large howitzer. The trail arm can be picked up by one crewman and advance with a line of infantry to augment their volley fire with canister. Such a fun piece!

Blue skirmishers giving "packs of cigarettes" to compatriots while passing through their march column? More like a "chaw o' terbacky" handed off!

Was curious, like @Peanutbrain123, which you prefer? I was definitely more engrossed in watching this Regimental Fire and Fury play through vs the Hot Lead and Cold Steel version.

Past midnight here, just watched the full battle 👍. Will check this tomorrow.

Great. I’ll have to watch later. Table looks wonderful- Maclellan- the Virginia creeper!

So after playing both games how do you feel on fire and fury vs hot lead and cold steel? Both games looked fun so I’m curious what some pros and cons to each are!

Good stuff...as always.

I love your tables. They look fantastic. Thank you so much for taking the time to put these together. I personally enjoy watching them.

Brilliant table set up and figures. Enjoyed the game immensely; also I find your games inspiring.

The situation has simplified. We are surrounded...they cant get away this time!

Well done Steve, enjoyed this one. Not a criticism by any means but an interesting smaller scenario which I think works really well on your huge table (food for thought). The rules seemed to play well. Many Thanks Mate lookin forward to the f&f version👍

This is going to be awesome! Looking forward to it!

Fun narrative of the battle! I definitely prefer the full version with all the rolls, discussion, troop movements, etc, but as an addition this makes a fun teaser, recap, or extra video. You should do more of these. I really liked how you zoomed in on each part of the battle in this narrative and captured the ebb and flow of the action. 🧢⚔🤠

This was awesome!! I love how quickly the battle went and that you were able to see immediate results on the table. Definitely a positive set of rules for horse and musket, and it feels very Civil War. I'm headed over to watch the narrative video now and I'm excited for the comparison to Regimental Fire & Fury 🧢⚔🤠

Good coverage of the artillery and cavalry. Smoothbore canister is brutal. Looking forward to the play comparison between WHLACS and Fire & Fury 🇺🇸🧢⚔️🤠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That matt you are playing on looks ace, personally might have done the bases to match. Looking fabulous still though. Look forward to your next battle report.

Love your setup.

I started to see the elephant when the Federals and Confederates began blazing away at each other 🐘💨🔫 Those charges were brutal!! I can't wait to see you play a full game 🧢⚔️🤠

Great camera. I like that we get to see you and your minis. Looking tactically at the brigades advancing as a whole is just fine, but when you perform regimental or brigade formations, the formations are a bit small on my phone to see what is happening within the unit. If you edit your videos, then it would be helpful if you would snap a picture zoomed in and insert it into the video so it is easier to see what the unit is doing and you are discussing. The rest of the time it's great to see you, the entire brigades/divisions, and the battlefield. Pickett's Charge 2nd Edition sounds exciting. I wonder if David Brown plans to have it published for Christmas or if it is coming in 2025. I'm really liking the explanations of Arthur van der Ster's With Hot Lead and Cold Steel. I'm trying to decide between this and Greg Wagman's Altar of Freedom. Keep rolling out the Civil War content 🦅🇺🇸🧢⚔️🤠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐍

Set up looks amazing, looking forward to this.

I design and print my bases and unit trays. Magnetize most everything as well. I have trays made for different games and just plug in the figs as needed. Mainly 28mm but I've also done some 15mm stuff. I adapted fig bases I had bought before I got into printing into some of my later trays so fully compatible.

I use the same Napoleonic figures for a skirmish game (Sharp Practice) and for a ‘big battle’ game (General d’Armée). No need to base every figure individually! The trick is to base each group of 8 men with 4 on a stand, 2 on another stand + two singletons as ‘small change’. Move the group around on a single metal or magnetised group base or on a sabot base. Problem solved!

Very nice idea have a great week 🤠🤠🤠

That's interesting. Hopefully you don't ever have to take them off.

Nice flags.

Steve, you mentioned two other Civil War games, Pickett's Charge and With Hot Lead and Cold Steel, in addition to Brigade Fire & Fury 2nd Edition. Which of the three rules are your favorite and why?

Just found your channel and subscribed. Excited to catch up on all the American Civil War content 😁

What size table are you using for 28mm figures? I realise that the base size is the ground scale.

Small quicklime -great

Nice idea to give us two different styled reports. Thx for this. 🙏 Another nice, beautiful looking battle report.

Enjoyable, particularly liked the time stamps and St Anthony's church bells ringing , However if I had to make a choice between one or the other personally I'd watch the longer version, just love the suspense watching those dice rolls

Fantastic as always! :-)

Nice battle man! Like these short ones and the long battles as well. Keep it up and look forward to the next one. :-)

Great report Steve, will be looking at the Directors cut😊👍

Enjoyable game, just about as it happened, with the same result. Excellent table layout and figures. Look forward to your next engagement.

As ever great episode sir!! Loved this shorter narrative style… now I’ve seen this I’ll be enjoying the full version tomorrow on my day off!! Always inspiring me to go further!! I’ve just got back from playing a WHACS battle at my local club in 6mm. So perfect timing. Take care buddy

Beautiful set up! Miniatures and terrain look amazing as usual! Very enjoyable!

woot wooot first comment!!! awesome video as always! i love how the town on the road looks :D

Fantastic game really enjoyed ACW games very good battle report brilliant like a boss 😂😂🤠🤠🤠🇺🇸🇺🇸

Wow that was Savage ! and I loved it . Out of interest would love to know what the percentage count of casualties was in this fight. Hats off to the "Rebs", never thought they'd hang in there as long as they did, felt sorry for them as the battle progressed . As for the Union side, to quote Mulholland in the movie Waterloo "We are doing murder here your Grace"