"WWI Company-Level Rules" Topic
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 Whirlwind  | 21 Jul 2014 1:40 p.m. PST |
Which WWI company-level rules (i.e. a company or so per side) are out there? Regards |
| boy wundyr x | 21 Jul 2014 2:34 p.m. PST |
TooFatLardies' "Through the Mud & Blood" is the one I know of. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 Jul 2014 7:04 p.m. PST |
And like it's WW2 original, Flames of WW1 will work better if you field multiple infantry companies and whatever weapons are assigned from Battalion… With some tweaking, This Quar's War may work pretty well. Scifi, but the setting is very roughly WW1. Rules are free, too. |
| kiltboy | 21 Jul 2014 7:30 p.m. PST |
The Lardies also had a set of WW1 company level rules in the summer 2007 special.
It was called Sturmabteilung Vor and is the same scale as IABSM.
Slightly different game and I would probably check out Mud N Blood first. But the specials are really good value.. David |
| monk2002uk | 21 Jul 2014 10:30 p.m. PST |
The FoW1918 Yahoo Group has the TO&Es for early war, as well as some examples of games relating to that period. Basically the same rules as 1918 but you drop everything except rifle squads, HMGs and field guns. Armoured cars and cavalry can add flavour but there were no grenadier, rifle grenadier, mortars, Flammenwerfer, AT rifles, or LMG squads in the first months of the war. I use Crossfire. No rulers needed and no fixed game turns. Robert |
| Martin Rapier | 21 Jul 2014 11:11 p.m. PST |
Crossfire works well for later WW1 company sized actions, it is easy enough to bodge in rifle grenade sections and I just treat LMG sections as normal MGs |
| Sondergaard | 22 Jul 2014 3:14 p.m. PST |
Mud and the Blood is an excellent set but would struggle with a full company (16 sections in four platoons at full strength). Definitely doable but it would take ages.
The IABSM supplement, Sturmabteilung Vor, would seem the best bet.
Not holding out much hope for the FoW set. The sample army lists did not inspire confidence. A full German company armed only with pistols? No lmgs, no grenadiers? Very odd, especially as historical OBs are readily available. |
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