"Talk to me about "Triumph of the Will"" Topic

No, not the Nazi propaganda film, the ruleset by Two fat Lardies.

I'm currently playing Red Actions; great but the set up time and put away times are a real bind. I also play Square Bashing with the Proletariat to Horse add ons and a card system for more RCW flavour; good for big battles but there weren't that many of them in the RCW and I can't quite escape the feeling that sometimes I could just as easily use blocks of wood instead of figures, it's a little too "structured" on the grid system.

So what about Triumph of the Will for a bit of a change? What size of game does it cover? Is it mainly for 25s or 15s? Would troops based up in twos and threes for Red Actions and Square Bashing be suitable or is it single figure skirmish gaming? I've certainly no intention of rebasing anything. Can anyone give me a bit of an overview of TOTW and how it works please?

Thanks guys.

It works at basically exactly the same level Alan. So much so that scenarios written for TotW are portable directly to RA! in terms of unit sizes, ranges etc.

TotW uses infantry and cavalry units of 3 to 5 bases. They say two figures to a base, but it hardly matters.

I would guess that you will need to change nothing of your units, terrain or equipment to give them a try.

They are certainly a rule-set I would be happy to use. Lack of opponents means that I have never given them a whirl though.

Funny I had the "wooden blocks" reaction to TotW. I only read them and they had a few interesting mechanisms but in the end they did not inspire me to try them out.

The setup work has prevetned me from trying Red Actions.

I did play a RCW game at a con. The GM used a home brewed variant of Crossfire. I thought it was a great game and only severe discipline prevented me ordering up a bunch of figs in 15mm.

However, I do hope to put on a SCW game using a Crossfire variant…

TOW work fine as a rule set that really does bring out the flavours of the off-beat nature of the SCW. I can't comment on the other conflicts as I haven't played them.

If its any help I took my SCW stuff to the club last year and tried a game with a bunch of gamers who had not previously played the SCW. It's now about the most requested game. Not that I take it often of course, I like to keep 'em begging….

Graham

I can't believe TOTW is such a dull contraction! couldn't they write a set called 'Triumph In The Sudan' or something?
tittersniggerteeheehee.

John