Warlord Games Epic ACW. My thoughts 

Awesome figures, love the look "in tight rows", most impressive mass effect!!

Ace result. Didn't think of putting the mounted officer in the ranks, but doing so means you could possibly use your chopped out officer as the commander for a second battalion without needing to go the metal route.

Those look REALLY, REALLY Good!! 25yrs ago I started in ACW mini's and have collected over 1800 figures(Infantry, Arty and Command, with various markers as well). This would have been a WHOLE LOT EASIER to deal with!! LOL

The miniatures look epic once painted up into units. When you first showed them and I thought that they looked small for some reason, once you compared them to others it make sense why the looked smaller. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful painting! One of the most useful and intelligent discussions on these miniatures that I have seen so far Leon! Very helpful! Looking forward to seeing the Kallistra minis when you get them. Very tempting...

Great vid. Really nice description of the size and options. Glad there is a company that has the options for command. As always love the paint job.

Thank you for saying "Stanley Knife".I've had people look at me crossed-eyed when I've said it. You've done a really good job on these guys. Very good criticism on the officer's arm and the cannon crews. I hope Warlord is listening to you when they move forward with this scale

Nice rundown mate =) to be fair, forged in battle is also 15mm only in name. I did a picture comparison with peter pig and it's actually not TOO bad but yeah khallistra for sure. Completely agree on the 3 stands, that's exactly what I plan to do as well. 60 soldiers per battalion is still pretty darn impressive..

Very good paint job on these little figures. They look great, Leon. A really big unit of figures. Impressive this amount. A lot of work but the result compensates for all the work! Greetings, Joachim

I actually tend to agree with the five stand units. Part of the linear combat that these armies were trained for was finding an area big enough to line up. It was when they were forced into cramped quarters that they couldnt line up

Thanks for the video. Tempted by these and you are right - the 3 stand option looks solid for an impressive battle on a 6x4.

Excellent Analysis! I went all in with the large bundle and looking forward to getting stuck in! Brilliant idea regarding the 3 base units: that was my original take and watching this vid. confirmed it.

Your painting is amazing. Great stuff on such a small scale!

Thank you for the wonderful review and painted examples. Your painting & basing skills never disappoint. Thanks for sharing with us my friend. It just occurred to me that these Warlord figures are actually the old Wargames Factory sculpts. The mounted cavalry figures match my old mounted Celts Cavalry box set from Wargames Factory. These would appear to be the same sculpts, probably done at least a decade ago before Warlord bought them out. I definitely think it's the same sculptor.

I just ordered the starter set today, I cant wait for it to get here... I hope and pray the do Napoleonic's next!!!

Nice job Leon. I have to say it never occurred to me to use all the elements as one unit, I would do the same as you. One thing which might work is what we do in our 15mm ACW games, we have units the same number of bases as the stamina of the unit. Works well.

Nice looking figs, Like the idea of shaving hats so much I am going to use it also. Outstanding idea.

The small scale gives a good representation of mass armies on the tabletop. I do Pendraken and Kalistra figures. These look excellent as well 👌

Really nice conversions with the union forage caps. Great job , like your videos and subscribed to your channel.

Nicely painted Leon and interesting thoughts / review. I think three bases look just as good as you said, I’m not convinced on these figures yet though, the plastics seem blobby on the sprue. 👍😁.

Leon, just came back to this video. You are very precious about the odd figure that has cost pence with your artillery crew figure!!

A bit late but iam hooked on them and i like the way you can play around with them, nice video 👍🎲

Great looking paint up of the figures. Very cool ideas for them .

Very good video and discussion. I began collecting Newline Designs 20mm ACW years ago which look great and a lot of variance to choose. But, way too large for these guys. You did a great job being so small 👍🏼

I bought two copies as well, lol. I painted mine with contrast paints. For the Confederates, I'd rather see that officer fig with the sword strait up, that way I could remove the sword and have a Gen Stonewall Jackson model. (He used to ride around with either one or the other arm raised in the air to "keep his blood balanced"

Really excellent paint job on these minis. Your conversions show how these little figures can be customized and made look all-the-more effective on the table. (Your Rebels in particular really look the business!) A lot of people are suggesting that a Napoleonic 'Epic' range would be welcome, unfortunately, the difference in figure/soldier types doesn't really lend itself to such 'mass-production' in the way that ACW obviously does. In fact, perhaps only ECW might suit in this regard and these wouldn't be as popular, particularly in the USA as ACW or Nappies. It will be interesting to see if Warlord Games will add to this range with further figures such as a 'firing line', Zoaves or cavalry echelons? I'd imagine they might as, overall, the range seems to have been really well received. Great video and one that showcases the range. Warlord should send you a free boxes for the advertising of their product! xx SF

Really nice work Leon! The figures look great! The basing is excellent.

Great overview Leon. As expected, these do look great painted and based. Very tempting but just not sure I want to get into ACW at another scale right now. Definitely something that could become a project later on though. Who knows?

Great video I took my christmas $$ and bought a starter 2 player plus a confed brigade plus 3x WI lol. I think your idea for using 3 stands is a great idea I placed a small order to kalistra for commands and I have started printing miniatures to add more Artillery and some scenery

Shoulder to shoulder can’t be beat for the epic look. Old Glory 10mm showed the way followed by Warlord. Would be interesting to see what other scales would look like using this strategy....

good stuff. look forward to how the project develops. Will look a lot better on the battlefield with 3 base units, so you can do bigger battles.

Hi Leon. I painted mine up, with washes and basic highlights, I even did the brass fittings on the muskets!! they’re so easy to paint and look fabulous. But, I still don’t like them. I think mixing with Kallistra will well. But don’t see me taking this any further.

They look great all painted up. Sadly, I have all Blue Moon 15/18s, and these will absolutely not mix well. They do look convincing. Nice work!

Nice to see figures in close order. Excellent video. Must fettle / paint mine.

Some interesting thoughts. I think the big draw is that they are plastics for under 20mm. Looking forward to seeing your armies grow

Looks pretty cool, I don't own any Large scale wargames yet (mars attacks & Rune Wars are the only "large games" I have). I own skirmish games, dungeon crawler games, most if not all work with smaller factions, Fallout, Judge Dredd, Village Attacks, Zomicide, Aliens... That kinda stuff. Would love to try out these "true world" wargames :)

Wow great looking stuff there. I'm sure you could trim off that sword arm on the mounted commander and use the sword arm on the infantry officer to replace it. It does mena the infantry guy is sacrificed, but it would be worth it. I'm very impressed. Thanks for the vid.

after getting 2 mags myself i came to the same conclusion as you and will most likely run 3 stands per regiment, i got some kalistra stuff as well haha painted up two limbers just because they are cool

I preordered this set but do So hope they do a batch of epic naps in the near future

I think the blue you've used for the trousers looks quite good - I've read that the trousers worn by the Union troops were darker than commonly portrayed by wargamers, so I think you've got the compromise between "actual" colour and brightening it up for the wargames table about right. I completely agree with you regarding "epic" games and the unit frontage of these sprues. As is, you could probably play one or two brigades per side on a six foot by four foot table (assuming two or three regiments up and two regiments in support), which doesn't seem very "epic" to me. The basing also doesn't seem to take into account the wide variation in regimental strengths during the ACW. I can understand the business model behind Warlord's constant "let's produce a game where you can buy everything from us in one box, and make it in a funny scale so people are then locked into sticking with us" - what I find a bit mystifying is why they chose to make things difficult for anyone who likes the figures but not their rules. Why make your stands ten figures wide? The "standard" ACW basing is a 20-25mm frontage - if they had made each group of figures four strong, rather than ten, that would have meant if you wanted to use their figures for Fire and Fury, or Johnny Reb III, or Guns at Gettysburg you could have (two ranks of four figures would look quite nice). Obviously Warlord would want something more "epic" for their ruleset so they could make their stands two of the four figure groups wide and two deep - and separated the command figures into their own four figure group meaning you wouldn't need to hack them about. This would still have given Warlord a regimental strength of 80 figures and a frontage of 20-25cm. Like you, I think the figures themselves are quite nice - I already have fairly large forces for the ACW in 15/18mm but I sometimes toy with the idea of starting over in 10mm. Unfortunately nobody produces 10mm ACW figures that really appeal to me - the price of being a sculpting snob!

Three bases instead of five bases looks good enough to me and Kallistra 12mm looks like a great replacement. Though WG is going to sell only the command strip soon.

Agree with everything Leon, thanks for the shout out and link. W H Smiths is open :)

They do look nice and your paint job does them justice but I think I’ll be sticking with my Adler 6mm. 60mm frontage per stand is too big for me and the scale of battles I like to play.

You've done a grand job in these mate. You know my thoughts on them but I'll be interested to see how your armies finish up.

yeah I wish they would do kepi infantry as well but I do like them.

Your painting is really great !!! I’m still annoyed about having 10 figure wide bases and no separate command bases. I prefer Fire & Fury brigade rules so I can play Pickets Charge rules or Regimental Fire & Fury using the same figures so I have to decide on 15mm figures or 10mm figures. I like shoulder to shoulder close basing rathe than the current open order style bases for some rules. Not forgetting that the ACW was the last Napoleonic War.

Good review Leon. Hopefully the Crimea or Franco Prussian war will be along at some point ☺

I watched the full 18 minutes. I was spell bound by your review. Pastel Blue for the trousers. Not pale blue. 😀

Yeah I finally got mine in the magazine and wished I’d bought two copies as I’m considering giving these to my 10 year old son to wargame/ muck around with on the tabletop.

Right that's it Im starting my Union troops tomorrow as I've got 2 days off,those look so nice mate

I’ve bought 6 copies of wargames illustrated, equates to a brigade box but about £5 cheaper!! Waiting on my starter set now!

Figures look great mate ,all the best Leon, Garry

Great review. It confirms my big issue over sub 20mm metal figures - terrible anatomy! The new Warlord figures are much more in proportion than the gnomish Kalistra ones, I think. This is why this is my first real step into sub 28mm.

Lovely troops, so many colors there for diversity.

Just received the update on the release from Warlord and it looks like zouaves, the Iron Brigade and mounted cavalry due in April, at £40 a box, with a bundle deal that offers little but casulty markers. First glance a tad expensive for, but given these can be padded out with kallistra minis and each infantry box is 300 minis - albeit in 10 man strips - not that bad. Just wondering about getting extra bases, I suppose I will have to check Renedra. Surprised they opted for mounted cavalry in this release and perhaps also surprised it was not a combine mounted/dismounted set with horse holders. Really hoped that the skirmishing miniatures would be up first after the main box as well as extra command stands- all about using that extra base per sprue and getting more "units on table as opposed to simply minis.

Beautiful work 👍 maybe you can paint the 54th Massachusetts?

Very nice figures and video

Really they are just tokens when they get below 15mm in scale so one side blue the other side grey will do when you are standing at a gaming table. I still prefer 28mm for the painting and detail.

Stunning figures!

Very nicely painted mate, not painted mine yet lol

@ 1:24 You chopped all the hats off - where did you get the kepis? I can't understand why WG didn't make the Union soldiers all with kepis????

man this video is really good! it makes me wish i had money!

Even ive got some of these, im finding them so difficult to paint though as I'm not used to small scale stuff, I won't ever add to mine, two sprues are enough, but if warlord did a waterloo set like this I'd probably buy a big box.

Very pretty figures, they have a nice feel of closed ranks.

They look really cool,dam it now I’m thinking maybe I should, I love the confederates

I noticed that the Federal artillery trails and wheels were green and the Confederate were natural (brown). Did you base that off a particular unit or was that how it was generally done?

Fking love these Bud; really look great en masse. Are they 15mm? Tiny but they do look Grand after that "Leon Touch" You should of used the Prussian Blue; that you used to highlight the Battle in the box Union that you did (still my fav Leon T Work). Mass Columns look awesome.

Es usted un genio y un artista. Enhorabuena.

I plan on using 6-stand units, 3 bases wide, 2 bases deep

I still can't come to grips with the fact that they have no bayonets attached. This is in fact the reason that I haven't touched this yet.

Terrific work on these figures. What green paint did you use to paint the artillery models ?

This is problem with people, who say "15mil" or "14mil" is scale. "15mil" is not scale. If you want to scale something take REAL scale to your hands and measure, please, the figurines in question! How do you want to confess anybody to make figurines properly scaled if you want "15mil" instead of "1 to 100", - for example. Yes, this is so easy. Now - shout people. :))

Is it me or all Union soldiers should all have kepis instead of a mix of kepis and hats ? Seems very odd to me.... Looks relevant for rebs though.....

very cool

Fantastic painting m8 .

nice work

Big fail for me that warlords did not do dedicated union and confed sprues. Your painting is lovely but you should not have to swap hats!

Really nice figures leon what scale are these they look something between 15mm and 6mm

Rifle/musket vallejo paint color please?

I wander how you play Black Powder with them? Is one sprue a battalion or you need 4 sprues to make a battalion to be able to have different formations.?

what is the mountain officer in the middle of the command stand for? you put the Brigade officer in the middle of the regiment.

WELL DONE

That's impressive!

Where did you get all the kepi union heads?

whats the size of the base ineed to know :D !!

So would you say they are kallistra compatible ?

Nice work mate, but these are not for me. I love the acw but just have no inkling to game it.

Are they making cavalry and zouaves?

Such a waste....if they only had put a 4 figure frontage then this would have been awesome. Great figures but terribile footprint for gaming.

Pathetic starters, there's no Cavalry in them, what????