I've now run two skirmish battles with Horizon Wars. This is a great system. It abstracts a lot of the minutiae, which 90% of the time I like. I can see some house rules brewing, but I need to play a bit more before I start tinkering. At patrol scale (the lowest point value per army) A 30 minute battle is deffinitely doable. At the high end (27 points) I could still see 90 minutes assuming I don't stare at the board too long pondering the next move.

I've now run two skirmish battles with Horizon Wars. This is a great system. It abstracts a lot of the minutiae, which 90% of the time I like. I can see some house rules brewing, but I need to play a bit more before I start tinkering. At patrol scale (the lowest point value per army) A 30 minute battle is deffinitely doable. At the high end (27 points) I could still see 90 minutes assuming I don't stare at the board too long pondering the next move.

I've enjoyed it enough to start setting up a campaign. I decided to give it some context this time. Typically my wargame backstory only goes far enough to explain why the forces are fighting on this particular battlefield. I went a little further back for this one. It's not great literature, but it was fun to do the write up.

http://diceandwords.blogspot.com/2018/04/horizon-wars-gaia-campaign.html