Epic Battles: American Civil War Erweiterungen

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Epic Battles: American Civil War Dismounted Cavalry – €51,04 EUR

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The role of Cavalry during the American Civil War went through a peculiar evolution. The realities of the evolving battlefield required a change from the tactics of previous wars. A headlong charge into formed enemy infantry or artillery became an unnecessary risk, the firepower they wielded more than enough to prevent any such charge from hitting home. Cavalry thus fought differently in the civil war than previous conflicts, though their role was no less pivotal. Headlong cavalry charges were largely replaced by cavalrymen acting more as dragoons – mounted infantry.

Cavalry combined two useful military attributes: mobility and firepower. Though perhaps outranged by an infantry regiment with rifles the cavalry could still dismount to hold ground temporarily until relieved by the infantry. Armed with a carbine a trooper could dismount and fight perhaps as effectively as his infantry counterpart. In this role the cavalry would invariably dismount into a skirmish screen, with nominally a quarter of the troopers detailed as horse holders, though some commanders preferred to think of the “fourth man” forming a reserve to be called upon if the line was hard pressed. Commonly a regiment in a brigade might be held in reserve, mounted, whilst the remainder of the brigade fought on foot. Such tactics sat well with the cavalry who saw the mounted charge as risky and perhaps even futile.

This set provides a brigade of three regiments – each with three stands of dismounted infantry and one of horseholders, suitable for both Union and Confederate Armies.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Skirmishers – €31,90 EUR

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Skirmishing troops were important parts of Union and Confederate battleplans during the American Civil War. Ranging ahead of the main attack columns, skirmishers advanced in loose formations to harass the enemy, draw fire, and ’screen‘ the troops behind them ahead of a major bayonet charge.

Skirmishers deployed ahead of the main battle line to do damage by shooting and unsettle the enemy line prior to the assault. These detached soldiers would move ahead of the main body in extended order with gaps of perhaps five yards between men, making best use of the cover available, even trying to work in pairs, ideally using a fire and movement system as they advanced. Their aim was to draw the enemy’s fire and to do damage, making the enemy unsettled enough for a bayonet charge from the main body.

Skirmishers were not always used, however. Once deployed, they tended to become uncontrollable as each man sought to take shelter away from his officers. Rates of fire slackened as each man might try to take more careful aim with what was, actually, an inherently inaccurate weapon. They would also not be used where the aim of the battleplan was to inflict as much damage as possible by mass of firepower.

The models in this boxed set are suitable to represent Skirmishers for both Union and Confederate armies. They can equally be used to represent famous regiments such as Berdan’s Sharpshooters on the Union side to the Rebel Whitworth Sharpshooters.

Boxed Set contains 10 stands of Epic Battles: ACW Skirmishers, suitable for both Confederate & Union Generals.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Command strips – €15,31 EUR

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The Confederate and Union Infantry Brigade plastic sprues are designed to allow for regiments comprising 5 stands. These ACW Command strips allow players, should they wish, to field smaller units. These strips will replace one front rank strip from the plastic kit, allowing more command stands to be built.

This pack contains 5 strips of Confederate or Union Infantry.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Wagon – €15,31 EUR

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Each gun in an artillery battery was drawn by a limber pulled by four or six horses and the battery’s ammunition was carried in the limber as well as in caissons. Some batteries were also designated as light, or horse, artillery. These provided the faster gun teams but their actual guns were of the same types as their “foot” colleagues. Their speed was achieved by having better horses in the limber teams if at all possible, but most obviously, by mounting the gun crews on horses. Such batteries were thus able to keep pace with the cavalry.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Limber – €15,31 EUR

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This wagon can be used to represent either a US Army supply wagon or a Rebel one. Often wagons would be employed to support artillery batteries. These models add extra flavour to a battlefield, whether in support of your artillery along with a limber or simply to dress the battlefield. You could even use multiples to represent a key battlefield objective in certain scenarios.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Confederate Command – €7,66 EUR

Robert E. Lee: The son of ‘Light Horse Harry’ Lee, an officer who served in a previous rebellion, Robert Edward Lee graduated top in his class at West Point at the start of his military career. He was an accomplished officer and had served across the country and provided staunch service during the Mexican War. When Virginia seceded Lee felt bound to his native state and resigned his commission in the Regular Army, offering his services to Virginia and the fledgling Confederacy. Famously, Lee was offered command of the Union forces about to head south, but felt honour bound and declined.

During the next four years he proved to be one of the greatest battlefield commanders and tacticians of his age. He invaded the North late in ’62 and held McClellan again at Sharpsburg (Antietam). On the strategic defensive in early ’63 he defeated The Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville in May where Jackson fell. On the offensive in June he led his army into Pennsylvania and the climactic battle of Gettysburg where he was checked by Meade.

On the defensive, Lee was initially able to match and hold Grant as he bore down on the Confederacy in ’64 and ’65, but eventually no amount of tactical genius could offset the numerical and technical superiority of the Union. With his lines around Petersburg breeched Lee abandoned the city and Richmond and struck out west trying to avoid the circling Union armies. Eventually Lee was compelled to surrender himself and his army to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865.

Note that this figure has a brand-new pose and differs from the ACW pre-order exclusive figure.

Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson: Jackson is one of most able Confederate commanders and is only eclipsed, perhaps, by Lee. Thomas Jonathan „Stonewall“ Jackson was an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute when war broke out and offered his services to his native state, Virginia. At First Manassas he won immortality when his brigade held its ground in the face of a heavy Union assault. A fellow officer, noting Jackson’s brigade and trying to rally his own men, called out: “Look, there stands Jackson – like a stone wall!” The name stuck.

Jackson was placed in command of the Confederate forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley and promptly lead his Union opponents a merry chase. By a series of forced marches with his infantry, or “foot cavalry” as they became known due to their speed, he was able to surprise and defeat all the Union forces sent against him in isolation. His antics were largely aided by the fact that he had a much better map of the Valley than his opponents – reputedly 10 ft long! At Antietam his corps held all of McClellan’s uncoordinated assaults despite heavy losses and at Fredericksburg his troops performed the same duty. In May of 1863 he and Lee masterminded a flank assault that broke Hooker’s will and drove the Army of the Potomac north. It was at the moment of his greatest success that he was accidentally shot by his own men on the evening of the 2nd May while reconnoitering the Union lines ready for a renewal of the action. Carried from the field, his left arm was amputated but complications ensued and he died on the 10th May 1863.

Also included is a HQ standard Bearer.

This pack contains 3 mounted command figures in Warlord Resin.

Epic Battles: American Civil War Union Command – €7,66 EUR

Ulysses S. Grant: Ulysses Simpson Grant, or more accurately Hiram Ulysses Grant (he was registered incorrectly at West Point) was a total failure. He failed in several business ventures; when president his administration was rocked by scandals; he lost most of his wealth after the war in further failed ventures and only gained back some funds by publishing his memoirs. Grant – the failure. However, there was one enterprise at which Grant excelled – War!

Grant had served in the Mexican War but then left the army to pursue a career in business. When war came in 1861 he promptly rejoined offering his services to the cause of Union. Initially serving as a brigade commander in 1862 he was promoted to major general and secured Kentucky and most of Tennessee for the Union. At Shiloh in 1862 he was surprised by Johnston’s Confederates but, completely unfazed by the initial setbacks, launched a counter-attack and won the battle. In July 1863 Grant outmanoeuvred and defeated the Confederate forces defending Vicksburg and captured the city in July, in effect splitting the Confederacy, the navy already having secured passage of the Mississippi river. Grant was not present at Chickamauga, but was in command at the victory of Chattanooga/Missionary Ridge. In light of his successes Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General and commander of all of the Union armies. Grant then came East to oversee the campaign against Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Although Meade remained in command of the Army of the Potomac Grant went along with it, effectively using Meade’s own headquarters and staff as a post office for issuing his own orders. The battles against Lee in 1864 have gone down in history as some of the most savage of the war. Grant was often held by Lee but, again unfazed, he refused to acknowledge defeat and simply shifted his entire army “to the left”, forcing Lee to follow him to the next bloody encounter. Eventually Grant trapped Lee in a siege at Petersburg, a campaign of attrition then ensued.

Whilst sat outside Petersburg Grant oversaw other operations against the Confederacy, most notably those conducted by Sherman and Sheridan. In April ’65 Grant finally broke through Lee’s defences, captured Petersburg and then Richmond – the long sought after prize of the past four years. 68 June 26th 1862 – The Battle of Mechanicsville, Virginia Lee was finally cornered at Appomattox and compelled to surrender what remained of his army to a generous Grant. Denounced by many as a “butcher” for his losses during the battles against Lee Grant is still undoubtedly one of the great commanders of the age.

George Meade: George Gordon Meade is best known for his defeat of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. With a military background honed by experience in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, Meade served as a Union General in the American Civil War. From initially commanding a brigade in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles, to meeting great success as a division commander, particularly at the Battle of Fredericksburg, he eventually rose to command the Army of the Potomac.

This command came only three days before the crucial Battle of Gettysburg, and he only arrived in the field after the first day of action on July 1. The Army of the Potomac used favourable ground and positioning to repel a series of large-scale assaults over the next two days. Robert E. Lee’s Army of North Virginia, unable to overcome these defences was forced to retreat, ending his hope of invading the North. Though hailed as a great victory, it was undermined by the perceived ineffectiveness of Meade’s pursuit of the retreat, which prevented Lee’s total destruction. In the latter years of the war his influence was overshadowed by that of general-in-chief, Ulysses S. Grant, who accompanied him through the Overland Campaign, the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign and the Appomattox Campaign.

Note that this figure has a brand-new pose and differs from the ACW pre-order exclusive figure.

Also included is a HQ standard Bearer.

This pack contains 3 mounted command figures in Warlord Resin.

Black Powder: American Civil War Wave 3 Confederate Pre-Order Bundle – €188.86 EUR €165.89 EUR

Get two of each of the new ACW Wave 3 Box Sets: Skirmishers and Dismounted Cavalry in this convenient bundle.

The new skirmishers and dismounted cavalry perfectly complement the Infantry Brigades found in the Epic Battles American Civil War Starter Set, and afford players additional tactical flexibility, not to mention enlivening the battlefield.

Skirmishing troops were important parts of Union and Confederate battleplans during the American Civil War. Ranging ahead of the main attack columns, skirmishers advanced in loose formations to harass the enemy, draw fire, and ’screen‘ the troops behind them ahead of a major bayonet charge.

The military use of cavalry saw some radical changes from previous wars. Unwilling to needlessly sacrifice troops in headlong charges that could no longer hit home against the firepower of opposing infantry and cavalry formations. Their role thus became more akin to that of a dragoon – mounted infantry.

You’ll receive 6 regiments of dismounted cavalry (18 stands of dismounted infantry and 6 stands of horseholders) and 20 stands of skirmishers.

You’ll also receive 3 mounted command miniatures and a pack of the new casualty markers (12 infantry & 6 Cavalry) free as part of this bundle – this deal is only available as a pre-order.

Full Contents:

• 2 x Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Dismounted Cavalry Box Sets
• 2 x Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Skirmishers Box Sets
• 1 x FREE Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Confederate Command
• 1 x FREE Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Casualty

Black Powder: American Civil War Wave 3 Union Pre-Order Bundle – €188.86 EUR €165.89 EUR

Get two of each of the new ACW Wave 3 Box Sets: Skirmishers and Dismounted Cavalry in this convenient bundle.

The new skirmishers and dismounted cavalry perfectly complement the Infantry Brigades found in the Epic Battles American Civil War Starter Set, and afford players additional tactical flexibility, not to mention enlivening the battlefield.

Skirmishing troops were important parts of Union and Confederate battleplans during the American Civil War. Ranging ahead of the main attack columns, skirmishers advanced in loose formations to harass the enemy, draw fire, and ’screen‘ the troops behind them ahead of a major bayonet charge.

The military use of cavalry saw some radical changes from previous wars. Unwilling to needlessly sacrifice troops in headlong charges that could no longer hit home against the firepower of opposing infantry and cavalry formations. Their role thus became more akin to that of a dragoon – mounted infantry.

You’ll receive 6 regiments of dismounted cavalry (18 stands of dismounted infantry and 6 stands of horseholders) and 20 stands of skirmishers.

You’ll also receive 3 mounted command miniatures and a pack of the new casualty markers (12 infantry & 6 Cavalry) free as part of this bundle – this deal is only available as a pre-order.

Full Contents:

• 2 x Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Dismounted Cavalry Box Sets
• 2 x Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Skirmishers Box Sets
• 1 x FREE Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Union Command
• 1 x FREE Black Powder Epic Battles: ACW Casualty

Quelle: Warlord Games