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June 18, 2019 at 3:36 pm #1406090

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I think it all depends on the complexity a game your are looking for. I’ve played over the years Johnny Reb 2 and fire and fury both brigade and regimental. More recently I’ve started to use black powder with the glory hallelujah supplement.

I would say that Johnny reb in today’s terms is quite a clunky a game system, it does give a good feel for the period.

The latest edition of fire and fury regimental and brigade are very good and also give good period flavours.

Black powder is a simple system that needs a little input at the start to make sure you put the period flavours into the game, but the mechanics are simple.

My large ACW gaming I use an old computer program Rebel Yell (sadly not in production) as this gives me the right weapons, damage etc that is scaled in my opinion correctly. There are other good sets on the market namely carnage and glory, which also do a similar thing.