"Spearhead AAR - WW2 in 6mm" Topic

Hello again – we've posted a new AAR to our blog. This one was for a game of Spearhead, played in 6mm scale, set during the German Kursk offensive.

Full post here:
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Some teaser pics for folks who dislike links:

As always, thanks for looking!

Greg

Good report, a nice big table too.

Would you elaborate on this though please?

Sadly the scenario books available for the game are chock full of unplayable encounters

I have never bought any scenarios for any games so would be interested in knowing just how/why they were bad.

@Angel Barracks – I find the scenario books frustrating in that they offer huge scenarios, which the majority of gamers would ever struggle to assemble the relevant figures or find the time to play the game.

Spearhead is a division-level game, but that doesn't mean every game needs to have a division on each side to be fun. The books are interesting from a research perspective, but as a presentation of things you might realistically play with your group, they are far out of reach.

I would love to get/see a scenario book that had encounters much closer to the size of the sample scenarios in the Spearhead rulebook – a few battalion-sized units on each side, maybe just one battalion per side sometimes. Not every scenario has to have most of a division on the table.

Great looking battle, I really like the basing…I have taken the exact same approach :).

Spearhead scenarios are pretty big and tend to work best as multi player. For some alternatives take a look at the free scenario lists on the GHQ site. They are at a lower level than Spearhead and easy to expand if you want.
IMHO still the best rules for games of this size and complexity (WW2 and WW1 and Modern too!)

"I would love to get/see a scenario book that had encounters much closer to the size of the sample scenarios in the Spearhead rulebook – a few battalion-sized units on each side, maybe just one battalion per side sometimes. Not every scenario has to have most of a division on the table."

If you want smaller games the TAC Publications Eastern Front book has plenty of sub-division scenarios (although it still has some division sized ones).

The SH one is OK, you could always bathtub the provided scenarios if you haven;t got time/space. The OBs are largely made up in any case, as are the maps, just use them as a guide to force mix etc.

Bob Mackenzies numerous Command Decision scenarios would work OK for smaller SH games too, as would Rapid Fire ones.

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@ Martin – those are great links. Thanks!

I'm glad you like them.

I do like brigade level WW2 games, and Bob has done some corking scenarios.

I'd recommend the TAC Publications book as well (I think Irregular sells it), it includes a very jolly mini-campaign covering the siege of Tarnopol. Well, maybe not very jolly for the participants.

Nice!