Reply To: Warlord announce 15mm blackpowder

[phaidknott 7250xp 1]

Well looking at the sprues it’s one “command” strip to nine infantry strips (or five bases of double ranked infantry with 50 figs per regt). So rules like Johnny Reb should work fine (as long as both side keep the same basing and assuming figure ratio of 1:10).

You could separate the strips, perhaps sacrificing a figure in doing so to make larger than 500 man units (for example the freshly raised union regts). It was always the case for the union units that a large regt would be raised, and then when worn down to non practical numbers then the survivors would be reassigned to newly raised units (whereas the confederates would keep supplying troops to existing units).

So I think there’s a fair few rulesets that could be used (certainly with the more “grand tactical” sets that are out there, but that’s not my thing as I prefer the more tactical level games). The “strips” are kind of a good thing as they force the table into a more linear battlefield (rather than the “pike block” effect you get with a lot of more modern rulesets as they just seem to ignore figure ratios and ground scale). So you’d probably have to look at rulesets published in the 80s and 90s to find an alternative ruleset that would work without you having to rebase the figures from what Warlord have decided to use here.

Interesting to see that the Kallistra figs seem to be an equivalent scale, but it’s still a damn shame Warlord decided to be silly and adopted a non standard in an attempt to “lock in” gamers to their figure range (but if the figures are good no matter what scale, then gamers will buy them anyway..so is there a need to do so?).