"Rapid Fire rules using 28mm figures & vehicles" Topic

As the title suggests! We played a large-ish game of Bolt Action the other evening with three players. The forces were larger than our standard Bolt Action games of a platoon plus support plus one or two vehicles. To me, this seemed to start off well but soon became bogged down in drawing endless dice which disrupted the flow of the game and really sapped energy levels. Not a problem when two players each have 6 dice or so in the bag, but hacking through 20+ dice per turn at 10:00pm didn't make a fun game. It got me thinking. Rapid Fire (one of our favoured rule sets for a fast 20mm game)always flowed quickly enough for us. Would it work with 28mm figures and vehicles? We have no problems with table size and we have company sized forces for 28mm but what kind of house rules/changes would we need to make to try it? And has anyone already done so?

edit-Sorry, crossposted to early 20th century board in error!

Cheers
Gerard
Barely Legal Wargamers – In your face since 2010

I have played many games of RF with 28mm figures, using inches it played just fine.

RF are great for big games.
The only drawback is in order to have these bigger games is that RF uses ratios (i.e. one model tank = five real ones)rather than BA's one figure = one man and one model tank = one tank. It may not bother you at all. I'd use BA army lists & points together with RF game mechanisms.
Easy to work round though with a bit of work.

BTW we've played RF for years and still think of a model tank as a tank!

BTW we've played RF for years and still think of a model tank as a tank!

Well even the authors did at times. IIRC one of the scenarios in the original rules is at 1:1 ratios.

I know some members have posted pics of their 25mm RF games before.

IIRC one of the scenarios in the original rules is at 1:1 ratios.

Yes indeed! I think they do stuff like that to show the versatility of the rules.

I should think the game would play in 28mm without any adjustments.

RF using inches for 28mm works well – we played a brigade sized RCW action with it using the RF figure scales – see here:

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But yes, a tank model (or armoured car in this case) is still just one to my mind :)

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I would agree that Rapid Fire works well as a 1:1 game. We will give it a go for larger actions.

Thanks

Gerard
Barely Legal Wargamers – In your face since 2012

Here's a sample game in 1/56 using Rapid Fire (until the Swiss Guards show up in the photos--you'll see when you get there):
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Sorry for the late reply but I was away for a while.