Rajah
Glad to know you enjoyed your first encounter with the rules. We have been really pleased to be able to get these back into production and the response from people who have played them has been universally positive. Indeed I have never had so many post Salute emails from people who took part in the game just saying "Wow, that was great".
Funnily enough I mentioned this on another thread earlier. Von Reisswitz who wrote Kriegsspiel was a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and it is fantastic to see a set of rules written for that period by someone who was really there.
I was most surprised by how comprehensive and modern the system is, I had been expecting soemthing akin to Little Wars or early Featherstone/Scrubby, but far from it. This is a really sophisticated, fun to play set of rules that looks and plays like a modern game. It's a great testament to the author's knowledge.
I have used my original copy for the last twenty-five years as a reference book for almost any period I do – I've run WWII campaigns using the system in them, I've developed rule sets with the ideas therein, I've bolted them onto other tabletop sets to use for running the campaign elements of those games.
They certainly open your eyes to realities that you just don't get to see with a traditional tabletop rule set.
Glad you liked them, and great to hear you'll be back for more.
Cheers
Rich
has been watching some documentaries lately set in the Western Desert, and was inspired to create this...
