The set up

I'm probably breaking copywright but hopefully Don will forgive me.  The picture is from Don Featherstone's Battles With Model Soldiers and shows the introductory game that I am about to replay. The troops that I selected came from my 40mm fictional armies representing the forces of Oberhilse and Faraway. They are a mix of original figures and conversions of Scruby figures (from Historifigs) and Zinnbrigade homecast figures, and 1 Irregular guardsman.  Since Don doesn't seem to have gone in for the Imagi-Nation thing, I decided that these armies would stand in for 1839 British and American forces.
One of the problems I have had with this project over the decade that it has been simmering, is that I have had trouble deciding just what I want it to be and what sort of rules I want to use.  Should it be a small number of large units for semi skirmish games suitable to the Canadian rebellions with what if US involvment or a heated up Aroostock War or a larger number of small units to refight the Sikh and Mex-American War? Should I use Charge! and single figures or a set written for fixed stands or...etc.   So,  not surprisingly, organization is a bit at sea. Lately I have been leaning towards units of 24 infantry or 12 cavalry and batteries of 2 guns org 4 crew each.  For this game which originally used units of 20 infantry or 9 cavalry with 2 officers and single gun batteries with 4 crew, I went with Charge companies with 16 muskets plus officer, sergeant and drummer, but guns with 4 crew and 12 man squadrons of all ranks.  Nor sure why!
Set up was by the book but on the 1st move of the 1st game I noticed a discrepency. In the photo, the infantry is shown deep.  Having now read Wargames, I realized that only the front rank can fire and so this is a sort of reinforced line, so I deployed the companies 4 deep. When I started following the written orders in the book, I saw that it specifies that all units deployed 1 deep.  I quietly changed formations as the armies advanced and deployed in firing line in subsequent refights.
The 1st battle reports should be up by Friday.