Well Friday night saw the completion of Day One of the Battle of Winchester in my ACW Shennandoah Campaign. THe battle will need a second 'campaign day' to complete so I'll be looking to schedule that as soon as possible.

The game was run under my 'Across the Potomac' rules and these seemed to work well enough, although a few tweaks will be needed here and there - as I said on Friday night no wargame rules can survive what wargamers do to them! In this case a Reb brigade deployed a regiment into a firing line after having driven off opposing Yanks from their lines, only forthe reb's lines to the extend behind a Union regiment that had not been forced to retire.

Not unreasonably the Yanks turned and charged the rebs who being attacke dinthe rear were driven back, only to be charged by a second Union regiment making them the filling in a 'Blue' sandwich.

Rules for fighting on two sides for one regiment likely needed - or at least thought about!

More 28mm Plastics, this time the instigators of the whole thing - Valient Miniatures - have just released a set of WW2 American GIs. Valient are a cool company - run by Julian Blakeney-Edwards and Colin Rumford and their offerings are closely tied into the Rapid Fire rules system. This means the GIs come in a box of 64 figures with all th ekit to field a full company under the rules set - including MGs, Motars, Bazookas etc - this will all be for £8.99 plus £2.50 P&P. Value at twice the price.

They already do British and 'Classic' German WW2 Infantry so the American's will be a welcome addition to the range. I have soem of theBrits and Jerries and thefigures are actually really good, so looking forward to getting hold of the Yanks.