About one year ago, Casey G. pointed out to me Neil Thomas' "One Hour Wargames" book. I was somehow put off by the fact that it focuses on larger-scale battles, rather than my usual skirmishes.
Recently, posts by Geoff Osterberg and Ivan Sorensen rekindled my interest in wargames, and, while browsing boardgame.geek I stumbled upon a nice FREE hexes-and-counters game: Valor and Victory. Its scale is somehow intermediate between a 10-men-per-side skirmish and larger scale 1HWargames (or Memoir 44) battles. A fundamental touch (from my point of view) is that squad leaders are individually represented - this makes campaigning much more interesting in my eyes. It also opens the possibility of some actual RPGaming... VV's scale makes it possible to adapt 1HWargames scenarios with no great effort: the book includes 30 of them, each with a map and a short but engaging discussion. I have played three scenarios so far, and I enjoy both 1HW and VV.
https://solounmondodicarta.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/valor-victory-in-montagna-3-carla-saves-the-bridge/
https://solounmondodicarta.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/valor-victory-in-montagna-3-carla-saves-the-bridge/
Casey G. It's certainly worth a look! And did you ever play anything from Thomas' book?
ReplyDeleteevandro novel Nice, sounds like something I'd be really interested in.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's something for a simple game. The thing with ASL is that you can capture some of the feel without all the extra baggage I think. People have said FiveCore "feels like" Squad Leader, which wasnt intentional but I can see where they came from.
PLus, with my kid taking an active interest in toy soldiers, straight-forward games are never a bad thing :-)
I have not played any and I feel bad about it!
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