Black powder fpw

[Last Hussar]

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello profjohn

I got the new BP ACW supplement and I agree that it does have interesting FP related possibilities. You could also use it for 2nd Schleswig War. All I've got to do now is paint the armies (and the ships - riverine gunboats are going to figure big time and I'm making a balloon). I think I said I'm doing 'what if' ACW with an Anglo-French intervention force using a mixture of Canadian militia and various Crimea and Franco-Italian figures. Letting the French - slightly anachronistically - have a mitrailleuse  and the Union a gatling or two. So Pickett's Charge led by the Zouaves of the Guard and the Canadian Grenadier Guards. I'll let you know if they get to the top. As this is 'what if?' I'm also majoring on the unusual units. French and Italians on the Union side, Italian red shirts on the Confederate. I'm also thinking of the Milwaukee Light Guard with their bearskins but I cant find a decent proxy for the NY Highlanders. I wasn't much interested in the ACW until I discovered the intervention scenario which makes for a more colorful table. It will also be interesting to set the command values and stamina of the European elite troops in very different ranges from the suggestions in Glory Hallelujah.

If you're looking at unusual units, I've just started reading a book on an Egyptian Sudanese battalion that fought in the French Intervention in Mexico  . Maybe you could use Sudan Egyptians or Russo-Turkish Ottoman Zouaves.



http://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/egypt-army-from-pre-1800-till-1883-study/

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[profjohn]

Am excellent suggestion.