Wargame Warrior

a winter warmer game i think, will try to have figs ready for november sometime

german army will consist of approx 10 companies with additional divisonal assets and large defences in depth.

we could use les's americans or some newly aquired camadians/brits upto you guys

6mm rules, to be decided. venue tbd. game table either 6 by 4 or 8 by 4 depending on venue.

further discussion needed on the rules, im thinking of designing a set based on several that ive played would like to run these past people.

emphasis on 1 tank = 1 tank and infantry elements being sections (3 per platoon.) play to be based on large scale tactical battles involving battalion plus sized battles

ive got idea's for several things like pre game battle plan orders. free flowing 'zones' (upto a 12" by 8" area for 6mm. for a company sized unit.) for units to freely operate in with simple instructions like defend this area until x damage sustained then retreat to rear area 'x' and either form new defensive position or consolidate and form new battlegroup (kampfgruppe)

i've got a few idea's for keeping alot of miniatures off table for FOW purposes and being replaced with something akin to iabsm's blinds using this idea to manouver reserve units up on an extended map (play area being central with expanded zones nearby for both attacker and defender alike.) as well as on the gameplay table.

movement to be a system similar to piquet (but with more cards with indivudual units (company level?) names on them) with cards and initative chits using the dominoes seems to work quite well. i figure a simultaneous system can be done in this way

combat using D12 which will allow a range wide enough over D6 systems to factor in unit experience with die modifiers

food for thought eh gents

i ran up some morale rules and modifiers last night. i also ran up a working tabletop plus surrounding regions (flanks,rear & rear-flanks and re-inforcement area.) map

im thinking we should make this a saturday&sunday game and im hoping the shed will be done and you guys can come here for this. that'll mean an 8 by 4 tabletop i could even referee it for you guys that'd be fun for me to sort some rules out beforehand

im also thinking we should have a small run through game 1st with a couple of companies of inf and a few afv's with some supporting artillery maybe i umpire this and then play in the planned session? i dunno im prolly rambling now

Jim at September 23, 2011 at 5:41 AM

i ran up some morale rules and modifiers last night. i also ran up a working tabletop plus surrounding regions (flanks,rear & rear-flanks and re-inforcement area.) map

im thinking we should make this a saturday&sunday game and im hoping the shed will be done and you guys can come here for this. that'll mean an 8 by 4 tabletop i could even referee it for you guys that'd be fun for me to sort some rules out beforehand

im also thinking we should have a small run through game 1st with a couple of companies of inf and a few afv's with some supporting artillery maybe i umpire this and then play in the planned session? i dunno im prolly rambling now

Definitely want to try new rules with a smaller setup as that allows several restarts when you (inevitably) find something that doesn't work. Also a good motivator to get figures + terrain painted.

im gonna bring some 1/72nd stuff today see if we cant sort a game out for later to run through, also have apocalypse if/when we defeat the enemy

i need my own set of wrg since they had alot of good stuff except that clunky c&c chunk

i like the ground scale, 1 inch = 50 metres that works great for a large table and formation

ok got del to print off a free copy of wrg so thats sorted out...will be adapting the tables from D6 to D12 for hit purposes need to discuss idea's about card decks for movement i have an idea about it but the talk will be good as a dicussion.

ill have to at some point come up with a unit roster too for a run through session.

gonna have special units... sniper teams, legendary units (like the machine gunners at mons in ww1 for instance (3 cold stream guards with machine guns holding up a division of germans) or the irish at anzio throwing rocks that sort of thing.

My Krauts consist of :

German (Early/Middle War) (24 Rifle Group, 8 Command, 12 Section Command, 3 5cm Mortar, 12 MG34/42 Light Role, 4 MG34/42 Sustained Role, 2 8cm Mortar. (None painted.)

Haven't found the Brits yet...

adam, can i ask, could you print some cards off for me for the november game.

ill get specifics to you later on, this is just a tentative query.

Yup, no problem. I probably have the blanks for up to a couple of dozen, if you need more than that I will have to buy a new pack. Oh and give me a run up on the design you need as type me not so goodly or quicksum...

how much does a new pack cost?. i'll pay for a new pack. i'd like a sherman and a pz IV facing off each other on the back of the card if thats possible still undecided on the actual text of the cards themselves. however i do have idea's

It's something like 120 cards for a tenner. I will check when I am next in Staples.

i'll give you the tenner for extra cards on sunday

I bought a new pack on Saturday. 180  card for £10.50. You can have 120 cards and all the printer toner you can drink for a tenner.... (My time is charged out at £56.00 / hour )

good job, it'll take you 1 second at that pay rate

http://www.ghqmodels.com/pages/military/squadgames.asp

this is a good list of TO&E's for world war two from ghq's homesite

A mockup of the card backs for WW2 rules:

great pics, think something could be done with the ww2 font or maybe, text like this...

'World  War

      Two'

good job though adam 

That font was carefully selected as being the very first one I saw. Any suggestions for others happily received.