"Setting up Antietam" Topic

I am setting up the terrain to refight Antietam. Here is how it loos so far. There are small styrofoam hills under the cloth to provide some definition.

Looks just like it did (minus the modern stuff) when I visited there a while back. Great job!

I like the way you've used hatcher markings to designate the hill slopes. Looks very good.

Jim

Brigades?

Wonderful table. Well done!

No, Regiments. I revised the QRS of RFF for 1"=50yds, 75 men per stand. Works great. Also use 2D10/2 for Charge resolution.

Did you have the mat printed, or is it all hand-painted? I've been wanting to get a 10' x 5' Antietam mat for a long time.

I did the artwork in Photoshop and then had it printed on cloth.

Interesting stuff and nice to see the Hauser ridge etc.

I am just about to start my refight and was wondering if you any thoughts on how to replicate the disjointed assaults.

I was thinking about the actual assault times with a variable but am open to ideas.

Happy battling.

Chris

What rules? Wonderful setup but it looks to be out of scale for regiments. Looks great for brigades or even divisions. I had to break the battle up in order to do regiments. I have done the skirmishing the day before, the cornfield and the sunken road. Next is the Dunker Church and west woods. Then Burnsides Bridge. I will finish the campaign with Shepherdstown. I did it at 1:20 per figure using MLW.

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I like the way you did the hills. That is the best use of a matt covering the hills I have seen. The ones I have seen just doesn't look like hills. By defining the hills like that, it really looks great.

That table reminds me of the old American Heritage series of books from my grade school.

I love it. That's really, really sweet.

Eric

Rules? Three: Johnny Reb III, Regimental Fire & Fury, Carnage & Glory II.

I redid the QRS for both Johnny Reb and RFF so the scale 1"=50 yds is correct. In RFF that means each stand is 75 men which yields a stand frontage for a 1" stand of 50 yds! In Johnny Reb, I use 4 man stands (the same as RFF) but do a Morale Check for every 20% loss rather than per stand. In Johnny Reb, each figure then equals 37 !/2 men – I round that down to either 35 men or up to 40 men depending on the size of the original regiment. I've tried both and each work well. Not sure which I prefer.

One thing I am going to try with RFF is to have each regiment fire separately – rather than a collective total fire – but apply the results at the end of that fire phase. We shall see.

My favorite is still Carnage & Glory. Scale is handled by
the program. Scale purposes on the table, 50 paces equals 3/4".

I've tried it with Brigades and Regiments and prefer regiments. To be sure, my 15mm look a wee bit odd, especially the 2 and 3 stand regiments, but in 6mm it looks just about perfect. Again, all is mounted on 1" stands. For RFF I use a die behind the regiment to track stand losses rather than removing stands.

This looks very cool Rev Zoom – (appreciating your artful creativity here).

Very nice.

Very interested in how you made the mat…the markings for slopes, woods, river, etc. Look tremendous! What type of material for mat?

Thanks. All the markings are ones I drew/made in Photoshop. The cloth is a velveteen material printed by a company in Ohio that specializes in printing on cloth. The actual file I sent them is 36 mb. I've also done Pea Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Gettysburg (Day 1 & 2) in several maps and a bunch of seascapes and rivers.