Thanks for the kind words of welcome. I'm based in Sydney and do 6 &10mm solo only in a large range of Black Powder periods.
I'm about to start a big ACW intervention project.

Welcome Prof. I also wargame ACW and FPW. Just been skimming the new Black Powder 'Glory Hallelujah' ACW supplement and there may be some bits that could be applied to the FPW, like the ranges for breach loading rifles and carbines (needle gun). There's also info on the effectiveness or otherwise of various formations at that period, and how they can be accommodated by the rules.

I hadn't come across that supplement and, as a BP completist I'm going to have to get it!

Not FPW specific, but these  are our house mods to the rules

1) Fire Before Moving.  A unit that fires has a -1 on command

2) 3 moves on a roll of Command -3 AND Roll< half command.  Eg modified command of 7- 3 moves on 3 or less.  This stops the weird situation where 2 moves is the least likey result.

3) a) Brigades are Broken at OVER half shaken/routed.  You CAN rally shaken units to try and unbreak the brigade

4) Sunjester banned from throwing anything over a d4, except for command rolls, when he must roll 2d20.

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.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Hello profjohn

Quote from: profjohn on 03 July 2016, 10:40:27 PM
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

Am excellent suggestion.