Katie
Cato Would Be Proud
We need bigger datas.
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WW1
Oct 2, 2019 10:40:01 GMT
Post by Katie on Oct 2, 2019 10:40:01 GMT
I've ordered a copy of "The Men Who Would Be Kings" (after a perusal of a dodgy PDF of it) and scarfed a WW1 conversion off the interwebs.
It's kind of like a cross between "Dragon Rampant" (for the movement & morale ) with a more "Rebels and Patriots"-like shooting system and the random-leader generation is done PER UNIT.
There's some simplified ArmCar/Tank rules in the expansion which look reasonable. However, I don't think the units are portable with the other rules in the way that PL/DR/LR are.
I suspect it'll only really work for the "open" eras rather than trenches, but I'm deffo tempted to go get figs. Probably Germans and French because I'm fed up of painting British Khaki, having done a load for Mars Rampant and still not finished that.
They recc 36-48 points for WW1 which is about 60-80ish figures. I'm going to do some reading to generate some orbats.
Woooo!!! Bang,bang,bang!!!
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WW1
Oct 2, 2019 19:13:54 GMT
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Post by kaustic on Oct 2, 2019 19:13:54 GMT
How far can you push the time period ? Russian civil war, Chaco war , German East Africa, Spanish civil war ?
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Katie
Cato Would Be Proud
We need bigger datas.
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WW1
Oct 2, 2019 19:54:28 GMT
Post by Katie on Oct 2, 2019 19:54:28 GMT
RCW should work -- figures are limited in 28mm. Earlswood games club in Solihull did a fantastic show game a few years back at WMMS. Armoured trains, teddy-bear fur tundra, little wooden log buildings, loads of Copplestone figs. Lovely. Copplestone does really, really nice stuff, but a little pricey. Musketeer do ww1 russians and Tsuba do sino-russ which would probably work and that's about it really. Westwind do some cossacks. Old Glory do do WW1 Russians, but there are very few photos to see what they're like. Reasonable at just over a quid each. WW1 figs would also need converting (remove shoulder straps mostly) for Reds. HLBS used to do a load of useful vehicles, not sure if they still do. Sloppy Jalopy do Ford lorries. Empress do the Austin armoured car used by both sides.
later 1920s, maybe. Colonial battles probably ok.
30s might be pushing it. There's no differentiation between armoured cars or tank types and no other vehicle rules, so as the fighting gets more mechanised and less horsey, it'll struggle. SCW, you want WW2 era rules for.
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