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Friday, 30 July 2021
The rules from yesterday’s game.
Here are the rules I scribbled down quickly before yesterday’s game. They worked fine but need a little tweaking.
Attractive tabletop, shiny figures. Result = happiness.
That's almost back or both sides of a postcard - half A4?
The curious thing is if you wrote out this condensed summary of what is in your head (with all the hidden assumptions explained) for others to follow, it would be pages and pages. That's what I found with the Back of a Postcard Rules in early Miniature Wargames "Drums along the Watusi" were similarly condensed (and frustratingly sometimes impenetrable). Featherstone's Close Wars appendix to War Games 1962 less so, but you borrowed or took much from the previous pages and rules to make it work ...
Didn't Duncan MacFarlane call them 'one brain cell' rules? Simple is always good! I do like your mini-games table, too. And good to see old teaching habits persist, still using a red pen!
I love it! The d8 is an admirable die and it deserves more recognition (in my unprofessional opinion). I like using it for elite troops as well. It’s just enough of an edge. Also, your battlefield looks great, those hexes are beautiful!
My ideal idea of a set of rules - on a single piece of paper .
ReplyDeleteNot a postcard?
DeleteAttractive tabletop, shiny figures. Result = happiness.
ReplyDeleteThat's almost back or both sides of a postcard - half A4?
The curious thing is if you wrote out this condensed summary of what is in your head (with all the hidden assumptions explained) for others to follow, it would be pages and pages.
That's what I found with the Back of a Postcard Rules in early Miniature Wargames "Drums along the Watusi" were similarly condensed (and frustratingly sometimes impenetrable).
Featherstone's Close Wars appendix to War Games 1962 less so, but you borrowed or took much from the previous pages and rules to make it work ...
A good point well made.
DeleteDidn't Duncan MacFarlane call them 'one brain cell' rules? Simple is always good! I do like your mini-games table, too. And good to see old teaching habits persist, still using a red pen!
ReplyDeleteThanks, it is good to see the table in use once more.
DeleteDavid in Suffolk,
DeleteIt was Jim Wallman and Andy Callan who coined the phrase ‘one brain cell’ rules, better known as OBC rules.
All the best,
Bob
I love it! The d8 is an admirable die and it deserves more recognition (in my unprofessional opinion). I like using it for elite troops as well. It’s just enough of an edge. Also, your battlefield looks great, those hexes are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteTradagardemastare,
ReplyDeleteSimple, effective, fun … what more could one wish for?
All the best,
Bob