The style of warfare in the early 1800s, and right up to the American Civil War, was very different to the open skirmishes of the Plains Wars in the latter half of the century. Soldiers were trained to fight in large formations, maintaining order and discipline regardless of enemy firepower. The equipment, tactics and chain of command in 1830s America was incredibly similar to those of European armies almost twenty years earlier. In fact, some of the equipment utilised during Santa Anna's campaign had previously seen use in the Napoleonic wars. In this section, you will learn how to fight Massed Battles and sieges. Unlike the skirmish games introduced in Legends of the Old West, these rules assume that most of your models are nameless soldiers in larger regiments, and allow you to reproduce sweeping military actions with scores, or even hundreds, of miniatures!
