The adventures of an 18th century imagination, located in Northern Europe formerly ruled over by joint rulers Duke Karl Frederick and Duchess Liv.Not to mention the American colony of Ny Tradgardland the 17th century Colony of New Tradgardstadt and the newly restored territory of the Shetland Isles.
Featuring a supporting bill of gaming in a diversity of times,places and scales.Hopefully something to interest all who pop by...
Monday, 6 January 2025
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Ordered this the other day and it arrived just now. Looks interesting. Does anyone know it?
I can't comment on this gamebook, but I did buy the same author's Battles of the ECW Solitaire Wargames. I did not find it a good portrayal of ECW battles and tactics as musketeers and pikemen are treated as separate units, deploying, manoeuvring and fighting completely independently of each other, rather than as parts of one regiment of foot which act in concert. When this very point was discussed after his playthrough of Edgehill on You Tube, the author replied, “..it was done purely for gameplay purposes. My key aim is always to make a fun game over historical realism.” It is, of course, possible for the player to deploy a Musketeer unit so it can give covering fire to a Pikemen unit and be protected by the Pikemen, but army commanders did not have to concern themselves with such things. There are no dragoons and no distinction between cavalry that fought with pistols or carbines by caracole and those adopting the Swedish system of charging home with the sword. I hope that this book may produce more realistic games for you.
I have bought several of his books and find them enjoyable. His first book you would basically attack randomly placed units. His later games the enemy would be capable of movement and attacks, making the games more unpredictable. I enjoy the games I have played, although I had little success in winning. I don't know if it's poor generalship on my part or the AI general outsmarting me. I am a more Horse & Musket guy so haven't played many of the WW2 games.
Sounds interesting for solo play. I added a Solo AI opponent new paragraph / sections to my Para-Shots matchbox Home Guard training game from AI Chat GPT comment (from / on Western shootout ideas)
The author has written many of these solitaire game books in the last couple of years. They are all very highly regarded!
ReplyDeleteI keep eyeing these up but haven't taken the plunge to order one yet.
ReplyDeleteLone Sherman seems to get very good reviews as well.
I can't comment on this gamebook, but I did buy the same author's Battles of the ECW Solitaire Wargames. I did not find it a good portrayal of ECW battles and tactics as musketeers and pikemen are treated as separate units, deploying, manoeuvring and fighting completely independently of each other, rather than as parts of one regiment of foot which act in concert. When this very point was discussed after his playthrough of Edgehill on You Tube, the author replied, “..it was done purely for gameplay purposes. My key aim is always to make a fun game over historical realism.”
ReplyDeleteIt is, of course, possible for the player to deploy a Musketeer unit so it can give covering fire to a Pikemen unit and be protected by the Pikemen, but army commanders did not have to concern themselves with such things.
There are no dragoons and no distinction between cavalry that fought with pistols or carbines by caracole and those adopting the Swedish system of charging home with the sword.
I hope that this book may produce more realistic games for you.
I have bought several of his books and find them enjoyable. His first book you would basically attack randomly placed units. His later games the enemy would be capable of movement and attacks, making the games more unpredictable. I enjoy the games I have played, although I had little success in winning. I don't know if it's poor generalship on my part or the AI general outsmarting me. I am a more Horse & Musket guy so haven't played many of the WW2 games.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, with these books I would replace the tokens with miniatures, as playing with toy soldiers are a big part of gaming for me.
ReplyDeleteI was given a copy for Christmas. I’ve read at it and it certainly has a lot going for it.
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Bob
Sounds interesting for solo play. I added a Solo AI opponent new paragraph / sections to my Para-Shots matchbox Home Guard training game from AI Chat GPT comment (from / on Western shootout ideas)
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