Well, not actually the beginning but this as good a time as any to start. I actually began wargaming at a very early age along with my younger brother, playing with our Dad using 1/76 plastic ACW on carved and flocked hexagonal terrain. The first battlefield I remember was 1st Bull Run/Manassas. Where else would you start? The board was made of ~4inch hexes each carved/flocked and arrayed to match the undulating terrain we had visited many times, and continue to, in Northern Virginia. We began with figures mounted individually moving large masses hex by hex before we started mounting them on standardized bases and painting them to match the unit uniforms known at the time. Our Dad had even built a custom board that fit a set amount of hexes, that when not in use could be hung from the ceiling out of the way, and not have to be torn down after every weekend.
We've since moved on to ACW in 15mm, 28mm and even 10mm, and WWII in 15mm and 25/28mm, while I've dabbled in 1/285 and now 1/600. We pulled in family and friends to join us as our armies have grown and morphed and we've explored multitudes of rulesets, even developing some of our own. As we've grown older and been split by time and space we try to get together for a yearly large game, but have also devised means using different media to play by text, Facebook messenger, and now utilizing Discord to play what we call RealVision games with figure/unit eye-level photography.
While we've come a long way, we still have many games to play, and so I wanted to start this blog to document our endeavors going forward for others to read about and see the fruits of our labors and hopefully inspire in some way or another.
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