The Texan's Arrive

    I've been painting a few bitty things recently, so it was nice to settle back down with a big batch of figures again. At this point my plan of what order I am going to paint has completely gone out of the window and instead of another unit of Romans to get that project onto the table, I've gone back to my ACW project.

   While I have now painted up everything I needed to get this game on my home table, I want to add the bits that will make this a 4 player game on a 6 by 4 board, namely another sprue of Warlord figures per side and loads more cavalry. Chatting with my regular gaming group about each of us painting a sprue of figures for a big game when we could meet up again met with muted support at best, but when it became obvious to the guys that I was pushing ahead anyway two of them offered to post me their sprues.

   The first sprue was designated for the Confederates with the request that it be Texan. This is the first unit that I tried copying some other hobbyists I've seen online and I've cut the command group out of the Warlord plastics and I've used a command group from Kallistra.

The next thing, for this post, is the Confederate Command and a unit of horse holders. I want the battlefield to look messy with all the gumpf that comes with marching armies. So the army commanders won't be standing in the ranks, they will be on horses at the back and unit officers will probably have left horses with a subordinate behind the lines and this is stuff I want to model. Again, all these figures are from Kallistra (bar a guy on the general's base cut from a warlord cannon crew) as they fit so nicely.

   All I need now is wagons but I think I need to wait for the Warlord ones as Kallistra don't sell any, which is a right shame.

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