Hey! Good luck! You are going to have hours and hours of fun! Your 11 yr old is gonna be suuper happy!

Cheers!

Indeed they do paint up quickly, and a 6mm battlefield looks very impressive. What 6mm armies have you decided on Kurkdiver?

i highly recomend that you also try out the roman era. belive me, a 1:1 roman legion on the battlefield looks beyond amazing, there are no words for its greatness im working on one, i have not yet painted all the 10 cohorts, but 4 of them is done and just 4 cohrts looks aming and i can just imagine how a whole legion will look like.

Well that's three periods I'm already working on in 6mm, as well as ECW, SYW, AWI, APW, FPW and WWI.

Kurkdiver, welcome back to the hobby. Yes, go with ACW and Napoleonics: enough variety of troops without getting overly complex, and plenty of movement and ebb-and-flow to the battles. Just last week I used First Bull Run (ACW) to introduce two new players to historical wargaming - an 11-yr-old and his dad - and it was ideal, loads of action and an exciting tight finish. The new recruits won. :-)

And 6mm is a brilliant scale not just for being quick and easy to paint and cheap to build armies, but also for portability, compact stowage, and for a proper mass battle effect with games that look like battles, not skirmishes.

Have fun!

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!

https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk

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Chris is so right. I would also recommend his rules, Bloody Big Battles, for C19th and early C20th battles using 6mm figures. On the BBB Yahoo site there are now fully comprehensive scenarios for a good number of ACW battles plus a few Napoleonics (including Marengo, Jena and Waterloo). I can recommend the Shiloh scenario as a good introductory game for the ACW using BBB.