One small concern - has anyone played the game? - does anyone understand the card play? - even a bit? There must be something obvious I'm missing; that section seems to provide a lot of detail, but I seem to have missed the overall system. Sat-nav approach to wargames rules. I'll read it again...
I missed these somehow, and now I'm intrigued...
ReplyDeleteThe short answer is "Yes" (though I've only played 6 or 7 games ) but I admit that I had to play a couple of "turns" (there are no turns per se) until I started to get it and a couple of games before I got to the point where I was using my hand to aid my battle plan rather than being opportunistic.
ReplyDeleteMore thoughts and observations available if desired.
I have neither obtained nor played these rules. Mr. Foley maintains a blog with a number of entries for these rules. You may find answers to your questions there.
ReplyDeleteDan's blog is: http://laststandatcairngorm.blogspot.com/
Played it a lot very easy once you get a few games in . Deal six card to start game , one side gets the red cards the other the black (jokers shuffled back into the deck . Start turning cards from the main deck - red activates a unit from the 'red' army , black card one from the 'black army' . Picture cards can activate a group of adjoining units (brigade movement) . The flow of cards can be interrupted by the cards held in the players hand or help when being charged . Mark each unit when moved/activated - when all of one army has moved/activated remove the tokens and start again (if you were lucky you could move/ activate all your units before the enemy get a go) . When a joker is turned from the deck remove all activation chits and start again , Jokers can be used to bring on reinforcements or incidents .
ReplyDeleteSee another Tony over at Tin Soldiering On - 5th April this year, even gives a brief description of the card mechanism... no idea why I remembered that, need to get out more, it seems. Interested to see how you get on with them!
ReplyDeleteThat would be "The Good Soldier Svjek" above's blog.
DeleteHa ha, Tony himself got in ahead of me, under the smokescreen of comment moderation.. The red/black cards idea is nice, I think Bob Cordery has something similar as an option in his Portable Wargame books.
DeleteThanks everyone - especially Tony - having read Tony's note, the card play section in the book makes sense - previously I was a bit short on clues of when the cards were drawn and all that. Good - progress!
ReplyDeleteHi Tony...
DeleteI have had a few games of this now... both with the early beta testing set and the finished rules...
Once you get your head round the card activation system things crack on at a good pace...
We managed a fairly large 7years War game at this years Wild Geese Wargamers get together in June with no real problems.
It’s a lot of fun...
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly - the game looks good. Now that the card system makes more sense to me, I'm keen to give it a go.
DeleteSeparate topic - I was also looking at Charlie Wesencraft's Practical Wargaming - I played a hex-gridded game which was substantially cribbed from CFW for many years - that is also a good game. Among the legendary Old School rulesets, I think his morale rule is the best ever. I want to revisit that as well.
I have a copy of Practical Wargaming... I haven’t looked at it in ages...
DeleteI may have to dig it out...
All the best. Aly