ACW links

Here is a very good one with excellent small arms info.  For maps that give great detail to ACW battles, try out this site from the Civil War Preservation Trust.  Both are useful for designing scenario for American Battlelines.

Soviet propaganda film with assorted AFV's.

Drum Beats on the Battleline pt.14

A recent playtest of a game based on the Chickamauga battle went very well.  A few minor referee errors that the players were unaware of, but the game played smoothly and had believable results.  We used the new Morale rule that each unit only tests once, during its activation if it had taken casualties or had other effects in the turn leading up to its activation.  That made the game go faster and was more equitable.

Found a wonderful site with lots of maps and descriptions of Civil War battles here.  Highly recommended.

Drum Beats on the Battleline pt.13

Our latest playtest went well, save for one hiccup, which I found to be true in Mein Panzer as well.  Multiple Morale checks each and every time a unit takes casualties leads to unrealistic results when they are stacked one on the other.  It is better to take one Morale check each turn, and modify it.  That is how the new Morale rules will work.  The current method can be seriously "gamed," and already my playtest group has discovered how.

Lend-Lease

Here is what the industrial power of WWII, aka the United States, sent to various countries during the war.