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Funnily enough I have that EXACT setup to store my Johnny Reb counters (that’s about 30 years old too), long before we could get things like “Really Useful boxes” and carried our armies around in steel toolboxes 😀
@oriskany Yup, British Grenadier uses chits to show disorder, these can be gotten by moving/charging across difficult terrain, being shot etc. A unit collects these (up to a max of three), and can only be gotten rid off by standing still and redressing the lines. These chits give a minus to everything like firing, morale etc, and you also take “free” casualties by getting a chit for every casualty caused by being shot at (so you don’t actually start losing minis until you’ve collected 3 counters on the unit).
All in all it’s very good for linear tactics (like ACW), and forces players to slow things down and keep everything in good order to try and keep those chits away from the units. It does give the advantage to the defending units, but that’s the case in any period of history in any campaign (so it’s not “balanced” for things like competitive gaming, and more for refighting historical battles if that’s your thing). An excellent set of rules that could be easily converted to ACW and perhaps Naps (although that’s not quite as linear as the ACW was), and I’d recommend it as a buy to anyone (I think it’s still available, along with LOADS of scenario books) from Partizan Press here
https://www.caliverbooks.com/Partizan%20Press/partizan_BG.shtml
But I digress also from the original topic.
I’ve actually got a “stock” of about 3 sets of Johnny Reb that can be loaned out to my fellow gamers if they haven’t got a copy (they do usually end up buying them if they are into ACW), and it’s not regular, but it does turn up on ebay here on the UK now and again (a realistic price is about 20 quid with the counters, remember to check for that). It’s VERY common to see them for sale in the US for not a lot of money, and most GDW ANYTHING is worth a buy…almost everything they published was excellent.
