First minis finished for 2020

Some singly based 15mm ACW figures intended for use with Sharp Practice.

2 Confederate officers
9 Confederate infantry and my first Union infantryman for this project

The yank and the 2 officers

The Sesech infantry.

Mixture of Peter Pig and Essex miniatures.

Revised Portable Napoleonic Wargame ACW Brigade Rules

After going over my version of the Portable Napoleonic Wargame Brigade level rules for the ACW I have made a few revisions to make them fit better with the overall rules and work better.

The major change is properly using actions to deal with the cavalry mounting and dismounting, otherwise I think the ranges work well to differentiate between smoothbore and rifled weapons.

Unit types

Unit	Strength Points	Movement	Range	Comments
Infantry (muskets)	4	Column 2 Line 1	3
Infantry (rifles)	4	Column 2 Line 1	4
Sharpshooters	3	Skirmish 3 Column 2 Line 1	5
Cavalry (mounted)	3	Column 4 Line 3	1
Cavalry (dismounted)	3	Column 2 Line 1	3
Cavalry (repeaters - dismounted)	3	Column 2 Line 1	3
Artillery (rifled)	2	March 2 Unlimbered 1 Firing 0	Cannon 8
Artillery (smoothbore)	2	March 2 Unlimbered 1 Firing 0	Cannon 6 Howitzer 5 Light 4	Light are 6 pound guns.
Commander	6	Mounted 4 Foot 2	-	No combat value

Actions

It costs 1 movement for cavalry to mount or dismount. 

Artillery firing modifiers

Rifled artillery

Increase D6 roll by 1 if firing at enemy unit at a range of 1 or 2 grid areas

Smoothbore artillery

Increase D6 roll by 2 if firing at enemy unit at a range of 1 or 2 grid areas

Musketry firing modifiers

Add 1 to the D6 roll if using repeaters.

Resolving hits

Use the first chart only as I have not found evidence of ACW infantry forming square on being attacked by cavalry and cavalry primarily used firearms rather than sabers in this era,