A major change for this blog concerning my US Civil War collection

Recently I have been finding it difficult to consider keeping my US Civil War collection. Most of the figures I have date from the early 1970s and over the years I have struggled to either find a game system I like, or to even see if I want to continue keeping the collection. As well, despite a family connection to the conflict, we had an ancestor who was pressed into service with the Confederacy at the siege of Fredricksburg, and he fell in that fight.
On a personal note, the controversy surrounding the Confederate battle flag is also another reason I decided to part with the collection.
I was going through what I had and have found that with the rule set I have, it would mean an investment of at least another 300-500 figures to make it a go, and I just don't feel like doing that with this period.

The only way I would do any civil war type figures now would be for any Fenian raid type games, and for those, I think I can use other figures for that. Namely my cowboy style figures.

A fellow collector here in Nova Scotia has offered to trade my collection for kits in other eras that I am more interested in.

I will keep this blog up, and update it with the other ideas I have for gaming the period in British North America between 1815-1900.

Havenlocks advance to Lucknow, 1857 Battle of Aong

Wargames Illustrated has an excellent game scenario featuring my old regiment the 78th Highlanders.
The figures amounts are not so large.

1st Madras (European Fusiliers) 20
64th Regiment 20
78th Highlanders 20
8th Regiment 20
Regiment of Ferozepore 20
Volunteer Cavalry 10
Irregular Horse 10
Royal Artillery 2 guns
Bengal Artillery 2 guns

Balance Rao's Mutineers

Sepoys 10
Badmashes 10
Ghazi Fanatics 10

Illregulars 10
Bengal Light Cavalry 10
Illregular horse 5
Balance Raos Horse 5
2 field guns
2 large guns

The rebels hold a village which they have fortified.
If my Indian figures are more than I think I have, then they shall be in the game.

The British will be a mixture of  Napoleonic British as well as my light infantry from my American revolution troops in light kit.

This action was played in August 2019.
The
British assault wasn't as easy as expected. The Indian defenders fighting for their home, tried to hold on to the walls, however the British were enraged at the betrayal of their troops and the murder of their compatriots in the end, they prevailed