"Gaming the Crimea" Topic

So I am thinking I may want to game the Crimean war, and I'm thinking of possibly using the OTR rules because there is a variant for the Franco Prussian war and I'm thinking I could use these rules for the Crimea as well.
What I'm asking is does anyone think it is possible?
Crimea was not too far from the Civil war, and if I do, would I use the Federal troop organization for the British or the Russians?
Has anybody done or thought of this?
I plan on using 18mm figures by Eureka and thought I may be able to modify the OTR rules.

I like your idea of using On to Richmond, with the Franco-Prussian variant, to do the Crimea, but I would suggest picking up the two Crimean War Basics booklets to obtain organization information. These armies are far different in many aspects than American Civil War armies.

I see a lot of Crimean games with the table littered with trees, houses and walls -I would have thought a Crimean battle field would feature nothing bit hills and a few rocks -maybe the odd stunted tree -am I wrong?

The Crimea has a varied landscape from the barren fields of Balaclava to the complexities of Sevastapol. I've been lucky enough to visit that area and I suppose its very simlar to Spanish Peninsula terrain.

There is this fabulous album of photos of the Crimea battlefields, taken in 1904:
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Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
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