First Posting To Reclaim The American Colonies

Just recently, I bought the Black Powder Rulebook, something unusual for me, as previously I was not particularly interested in wargaming the musket era. For about six months, I have got into WWII, and am currently in the process of (slowly) painting a Russian (circa late 1942) army.
Prior to that my interest in wargaming was purely fantasy-based and mainly Dark Elves.

The Black Powder rulebook covers from two hundreds from 1700 to 1900, and gives you a main set of rules, with additional special rules for each war. Its old school wargaming, where someone will act as the umpire, and you are encourage to resolve ambiguous situations in a gentlemanly manner, so not for the rules obsessives out there.....
The book is not cheap (around £30 in the UK although I managed to get it for £24 from Ebay) but worth every penny.

So, having got inspired to play Black Powder, I now needed a war to adopt and build both armies for. I could have gone for one of the popular wars(to wargamers) such as American Civil War or Napleonics but the ones that appealed to me were the Zulu type wars or American War of Independence, and I finally settled on the latter.

The next stage was to decide what size figures to purchase, and whilst the Black Powder is packed full of 28/30mm figures, I do not think 24 of them really represents a regiment in the same way that 80 6mm figures would. 6mm would also be a lot easier to paint on account of being able to be more slapdash with the painting of them - their impact is from a distance not close up.

So, I've put a small order of Rebel units in with Baccus6mm, and now await for my box of metal to arrive, hopefully in the next few days.