Recent content by Brooklyn Red Leg

Although I've only had one chance to play Castles & Crusades (at NecronomiCon in Tampa in October), I have to say I love the system. I had a blast playing a Gnome Illusionist, eventhough the module was full of Undead. As others have said, its modularity is what drew me once I had started to...

No, no. But the first Iron Brigade was named such before the Westerners acquired it. Thats how they are distinguished from Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade at the time. The name comes from a contraction of 14th Brooklyn and Red Legged Devil, which is what Stonewall Jackson called them at 1st Bull Run...

*prods haakon1 with his bayonet* ;) You should have scrolled down to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, as it plainly states: :) BTW, I was sorry, Col_Pladoh, the article in question is 'Will the Real Iron Brigade please stand up?' by Tom Clemens (linked in the Wikipedia article)...

Ah, not exactly. The Iron Brigade was originally a New York brigade (named around the time of April 1862) whereas Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade did not gain the epithet Iron Brigade (usually called Iron Brigade of the West by alot to distinguish it) until sometime after Antietam. There are several...

Might I suggest the Knights & Knaves Alehouse board.... Bah, no more so than any other group of nerds, say like Star Trek, Star Wars, Macross (well, almost all anime fans now) and any other number of situations that have spawned fan followings.