Month: December 2005
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A New Interest: Unit Histories
My intense interest in the Siege of Petersburg has spawned a tangential interest in unit histories, with an emphasis on regimental histories. As I go about compiling my Siege of Petersburg Orders of Battle, I have already found the few unit histories I have in my possession (mostly H.E. Howard books on Virginia units) to […]
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Paradox to Publish Mad Minute Games’ Take Command: Second Manassas
The major publisher Mad Minute Games alluded to on December 21 has been revealed as Paradox, publishers of the Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron series of games. The following press release is located at the Paradox and MMG sites. Feel free to discuss the news on the Paradox forums and the MMG forums. Paradox […]
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Unfair Bias Against Wargamers?
As both an amateur historian and a wargamer, I get the feeling sometimes that academia and other amateur historians sometimes look down their noses at anyone who plays wargames. With this in mind, I sent out an email to several prominent people in the Civil War wargaming community. The email follows in its entirety below: […]
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American Civil War Campaign Games Design Center Updated
The American Civil War Campaign Games Design Center, my fan site for the HPS Simulations Civil War Battles series, has been updated. Rolf Hall has created a graphics mod for HPS’ Campaign Peninsula. Rolf is also the designer of many other graphics mods for the HPS Civil War Battles series. Check out Brett’s list of […]
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Taken At The Flood, Part 2
Taken At The Flood: Robert E. Lee & Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh Chapter 1 “We cannot afford to be idle”, Lee’s Strategic Dilemma, September 2-3, 1862 Chapter 1 is all about decisions. Lee had driven the Union forces under John Pope back into the fortifications surrounding Washington, […]
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Siege of Petersburg Project Update
I’ve now updated the Confederate OOB of my Petersburg Campaign Project through the month of September 1864 (the Fifth Offensive), and I’ve completed all units found in Sifakis’ Compendium of the Confederate Armies. The OOBs I’m starting with are from F. Ray Sibley, Jr.’s reference work The Confederate Order of Battle: The Army of Northern […]
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I probably won’t be posting again until early next week. Enjoy yourselves everybody.