| lapatrie88 | 27 Jun 2012 4:43 a.m. PST |
The example game posted for "Muskets and Mohawks" is a scouting-ambush game from FIW, with a handful of battalion or company-sized forces on each side. Can these rules also cover battles with a couple of brigades on each side, such as a brush between advance guard forces in the European SYW; or even a small set-piece SYW battle? How about "Rifles and Rebels" for ACW?
Thanks. |
| lapatrie88 | 27 Jun 2012 6:40 a.m. PST |
Trying to crosspost. By the way, it would be okay if the game lasts 2hr and 15 minutes. No, Mr. Editor stopped me from crossposting. Hopefully some of you who also game American Revolution, or have used Rifles and Rebels for ACW will see this, too? |
| Chris B | 27 Jun 2012 7:36 a.m. PST |
I used it for AWI skirmishes for a while. I wouldn't use the rules for anything bigger than a skirmish. Unless you made major changes, it would be very fiddly. |
| M C LeSingeDew | 27 Jun 2012 8:23 a.m. PST |
Tis very odd this negation of cross posting as the rules contain army lists for AWI through Napoleonics. We wrote the game to focus on the activities of company officers and as such it is scaled for smaller actions. However I have been told that players are just treating companies as battalions and gaming larger actions. Were I to try that I would modify the ranges so that a musket ranges scale to unit frontages tolerably well. Bob |
 Ed the Two Hour Wargames guy  | 27 Jun 2012 9:28 a.m. PST |
I used it for AWI skirmishes for a while. I wouldn't use the rules for anything bigger than a skirmish. Unless you made major changes, it would be very fiddly. Must have been the original version which was a man to man skirmish set. I just finished a 200 figure fight last week without any slowing down of the game. I'll try and post it to the blog. Rifles and Rebels use the same basic mechanics. |
| Chris B | 27 Jun 2012 11:27 a.m. PST |
I didn't realize the new version had changed that much! I'll have to check it out. |
| Ed the Two Hour Wargames guy | 27 Jun 2012 3:00 p.m. PST |
Chris B – Yes it has tremendously. Wanted to keep the title for familiarity as it was first released in 2002 but may have caused some confusion. You're correct, the original couldn't come close to handling what he is talking about. |
 vtsaogames  | 27 Jun 2012 3:37 p.m. PST |
We use it for French & Indian, calling the basic units companies. We've had over 100 figures on one side in a game. |
| Grandviewroad | 25 Jul 2012 6:31 a.m. PST |
The cross-posting problem has now become an epidemic of aggressive editing. Some people ask for a more specific board, then when you post to both the specific board and the general board for the period (which states specifically that it is for the 18th c. for example) Bill edits you out of the general board and narrows you into the specific one. This pretty much defeats the purpose of a forum, which is to provide a forum for gamers to get info quickly and easily. Should we be prohibited from cross-posting on the main board simply because there's also a specific board? What about those of us who don't want to spend hours cruising the forums of 7YW, FIW, ImagiNations, and AWI for info that pertains to them all. My pet peeve is when Bill edits periods that have no set time frame, for example Dark AGes which is not clearly Ancients or Medieval. Bill obviously has too much time on his hands. |
