Monday, March 12, 2012

A Survey of American Civil War Miniatures Rules

I wanted to share the following chart with you.  It is a list of miniature wargame rules for simulating battles during the American Civil War.  Over the coming weeks I will review several of these rules, particularly the ones dealing with battles at the regimental level.  With a few exceptions, I only cover rules that are currently available.  The rules listed under the generic category are designed to cover 'black powder' warfare in general and are not specific to the US Civil War.  Also, if there is an asterisk next to the binding type, then the rules are available in soft-copy.



Rules
Publisher
Author
DOP
Binding
Pages
Price
Company Level






Brother Against Brother
MJD Publishing
Ivor Janci
1997
Softcover
44
$20.00
Terrible Sharp Sword
Too Fat Lardies
Richard Clarke
2010
pdf
68+52
$25.00
Smooth and Rifled
Dadi and Piombo
Lorenzo Sartori
2012
pdf
22+5
$11.80
Regimental Level






A Glint of Bayonets
Sergeants3
Larry Brom
2003
Softcover
26
$18.00
A Perfect Sheet of Flame, 4th ed.
Self-published
Mike Willegal
2005
Softcover*
38
$12.00
Bull Run to Gettysburg
Foundry
David Bickley
2010
Hardcover
176
$52.00
Gettysburg Soldiers
Self-published
Reber & Reber
2011
Softcover
22
$14.95
Guns At Gettysburg
Partizan Press
Dave Brown
2007
Softcover
64
$30.00
Johnny Reb III
Johnny Reb Co.
John Hill
1996
Softcover
48
$24.00
Micro Force: The Game
GHQ
Daryl Nichols, Jr.
2006
Softcover

$19.95
Mr. Lincoln’s War
Quantum
Gore & Phenow
2001
Softcover
34
$20.00
Rally Round the Flag
LMW Works
Scott Monsour
2004
Softcover*
34
$18.00
Rebel Yell: Battles in the ACW
OMM Publishing
Steve Winter
2006
Softcover
46
$12.00
Regimental Fire and Fury
Fire and Fury
Rich Hasenauer
2010
Hardcover
96
$36.00
They Couldn’t Hit an Elephant
Too Fat Lardies
Not Listed
2009
pdf
52
$11.00
Brigade Level






A House Divided: Fast Action Rules
Partizan Press
Halsall & Smith
2007
Softcover
120
$40.00
A Union So Tested
LMW Works
Palmer & Surdu
2009
Softcover
54
$29.00
Fire and Fury
Fire and Fury
Rich Hasenauer
2002
Softcover
74
$20
On to Richmond
The Courier
Paul Koch
1986
Softcover
32
OOP
Polemos ACW
Baccus
Peter Riley
2008
Softcover*
76
$23.50
Generic Rules






American Battlelines, 2nd Ed.
ODGW
Jonathan Coulter
2000
Softcover

$29.95
Black Powder
Warlord
Priestly &Stallard
2009
Hardcover
182
$48.00
Carnage and Glory II
Self-published
Nigel Marsh
2001
Pdf + software
60
$31.40
Die Fighting
Repiquet
Bob Jones
2011
Softcover
54
$29.95
Eagle’s Prey, 2nd Edition
Hoplite Research
Manny Granillo
2008
Softcover
128
$36.95
Field of Battle, 2nd  Edition
Piquet
Brent Oman
2011
Softcover
130
$35.00
Piquet, Hallowed Ground, 2nd  Ed.
Piquet
Brent Oman
2003
Softcover
162
$35.00
Honor and Glory
Self-published
David Marks
2006
pdf
90
free
Rank and File
Crusader
Mark Sims
2009
Softcover*
68
$30.00
There Are Your Guns
Partizan Press
Dennis Williams
2009
Softcover
104
$36.00
Volley and Bayonet, Road to Glory
Test of Battle Games
Chadwick & Novak
2008
Softcover
120
$39.95
Zouave II
Repiquet
Bob Jones
2011
Softcover
72
$29.95

4 comments:

  1. http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=261003

    Link to the Miniatures Page discussion primarily for my benefit.

    Mark

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  2. Dear Mark:
    This is a wonderful list that you put together, but I would like to correct your entry for the Brother Against Brother rules. They are still in print and retail for $20.00 at such retailers as scalecreep.com, onmilitarymatters.com, as well as through me at mjd_pub@comcast.net. Thank you!

    Ivor
    Marek/Janci Design

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    1. Ivor,

      This is great news. I will update the list with this new info. BAB is a great set of rules, and I was not happy when it looked like they were OOP.

      Thanks, Mark

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  3. We of the Baton Rouge Society of Miniature Gamers have been playing Larry Brom's Civil War rules for almost 40 years. We played them when they didn't have a name or a fancy bound cover edition - just a sheaf of papers stapled together. Airfix plastic troops on cardboard bases was all we needed. A Glint of Bayonets continues to be a fun, fast multiplayer ACW game that has retained it's fun playability for 3 generations of wargamers now. Thanks Larry, where ever you are.

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