"Mud & Blood - kid friendly?" Topic

I have read a good few reviews of Too Fat Lardies' set but wondered if they can be grasped readily by children?

Mine are rather intelligent but, like most Tech-era munchkins, have minds that quickly drift if they are not engaged.

That said, they seem eager to play with my toys and I thought this both educational and relevant – Centenary and all that.

I have a copy of them but have yet to play test them. They look reasonably easy to grasp and most of the rules appear to be able to be held in your head, which I guess is the best thing for kids. It certainly would be educational as they are written from a strong revisionist position and not the usual Lions and Donkeys nonsense.

The random activation may not be to their liking.

My kids have dabbled with Warmaster – and the multiple moves bit, they thought was unfair (even if to their advantage). They seem to favour traditional IGO UGO

Thanks for the input. My son is obsessed with statistics and may be a good quick ref sheet.

I think I may be able to sell the project to the lady wife too.

BTW does TtM&B cover localised gas attacks?

I have a couple of years to enthuse them before my planned centenary visit to Verdun to try and locate where Great great uncle Franz fell.

Do you know which regiment Franz was in?

Robert

I'm currently considering the same issue since I plan to use the rules for a participation game in May at the Scottish National Museum of Flight.
I think they will work fine, the core rules are pretty straightforward and the emphasis on Shock rather than just Kills is an important learning point in my view.
We have used card activation with kids before and that went ok, they were happy to wait their turn and there was an element of dramatic tension over whose card would come next. However I plan on dropping the "Snifter" turn end card. Too much randomness for most kids who tend to think it unfair not to be able to have their go that turn. I have the same trouble with some adult gamers!!
The rules cover both gas attacks from barrages and more localised cylinder attacks.
You can buy the rules as a PDF from TFL if you want to look them over.

John

Other option for end-turn (snifter) card: have two, and the turn ends when the second one is drawn.

Or as you say, just don't use it.

Some very helpful comments thanks gentlemen. I think I will plump for an hard copy, I found some for £11.00 GBP

I like the idea of leaving out the snifter card. Anyway for my French it would need to be altered to a bottle of red 😊

As for Uncle Franz, I must apologise! I got my uncles muddled. Franz died 23:IX:15 near Arras. He was in Co4 of Ersatz Regt 12.

I have his memorial "death" card.

I must track down the Verdun fellow…

All very sad.