""Look, Sarge, No Charts" Games at Origins" Topic

Just wanted to give those who are interested a 'heads up' that Buck Surdu, Dave Wood, and I will be running a series of games at Origins using our popular "Look, Sarge, No Charts" series of rules. We will be doing games with all the versions: WWII, ACW, and the soon to be released Napoleonics. So here is a chance to gives these rules a try.
Online registration for games is now open on the Origins website. We'd ove to have you come and play, or just stop by to visit.
Event#

1314 Poland 1939 (WWII)
1443 France 1940 (WWII)
1446 Austria and France (Napoleonics)
1514 Look, Sarge, the Germans are Rafting on our River(WWII)
1515 Austria and France (Napoleonincs)
1638 France 1944 (WWII)
1640 Look, Sarge, it's the First Day of Gettyburg (ACW)

Origins Homepage:
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For more information on the "Look, Sarge, No Charts" series of rules, see:
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I thought about getting into one of the games but just couldn't seem to fit it into my schedule.

Do you have a reliable estimated release date for the Napoleonic version?

Ed

Buck is currently writing the final draft of the Napoleonic rules. A reliable estimate for publication would be somewhere between Historicon(late July)at the earliest and Fall-In(early Nov.)at the latest.

-Chris

Thanks!

I signed up for the Gettysburg game, looking forward to meeting you guys. I bought the rules late last year, but I have not tried them.

Lind

Lind-
Glad to hear you signed up. And thanks for purchasing the rules. :-) Glad you will get a chance to give them a try.

I will have to stop by and see it in action. This will be my first convention. I better bring a fat checkbook.

no charts….. but you need somebody to tell you what set of dice to throw, when, and what the results mean, and what the funny labels mean…

There is a certain level of complexity and interaction between different parts of the rules that are necessary to play any wargame. (Unless you want to simplify it to a level that it could, with some relabeling of what a result means, to any era or imaginary era.) Putting these into "what set of die to roll, & what the result means" is just a relableing exercise. Some people memorize the sense and weight of what a look-up table means, and some people memorize the results expected from a die roll from one of many specialized dies to use.

Table and charts are easier to update and alter to the era and time spand being played (Rev. Wars Napoleonic versus late Empire verus Waterloo era).

Other aspects of a wargame, (IGUO, simultaneous movement, hidden movement, range and damage of firing tables, tactical versus strategic movement rates, firing sequences (simultaneous verus alternate), initiative throws, activation limitations, elapsed time of a move, sighting distances and the like), are also factors to be considered in deciding what wargame rule set you like.

There is no "golden chord" to play, that makes a perfect game for all people.

Fredloan-
We'd love to have you stop by and watch a game, or better yet, play in one. Origins is a big convention for your first; prepare to be overwhelmed by all the gaming goodness! . And yes, you will need a big checkbook.

One day there will be a poll on best wargames rules. "Look, Sarge, No Charts" gets my vote!

1968billsfan:

It sounds like you've tried the Napoleonic version. It is, by necessity, the most complex set in the family. You don't have all the different dice in the ACW and WWII versions.

Buck

Maxshadow-
Thanks for your support!