"Looking for High Level miniature WWI (or WWII) rules" Topic

Are there any high level miniature game rulesets out there for early WWI, such as 1914 battles. I am looking for a ruleset where each stand would equal a division, and players take the part of army commanders moving multiple corps on the table. I am also interested in the same for WWII early and late war. Any help would be appreciated.

If you want a stand to equal a division then you might be better to look at the range of board games for the 1914 battles.

Robert

OP14 by Richard Brooks (available free in June 2010 issue of The Nugget No 236)is a multi-corps set of WW1 rules. A division of 2 brigades would comprise 8 stands,corps artillery is 2-3 stands. The ground scale is 3" per 1 km. I have played it twice and quite like it, one player can handle one corps with ease and our second game had 3 players running 3-1/2 corps on a 6 x 4ft table.

For larger scale battles there is Home Before The Leaves Fall, a free Piquet supplement. I have not played it but an army of 6 corps is about 8 stands and the ground scale about 1" per 4 km. One can play the entire August 1914 invasion of the west on a table 9 x 5ft.

Yes, OP14 is very good and works well for really quite big battles.

I used regiment and division sized stands for 'Panzergruppe', used it to run e.g. Operation Crusader, Venzia and Market Garden in an evening apiece.

A little long in the tooth now, but might be the sort of thing you are looking for.

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Panzergruppe is at the top of the downloads list. Drumfire is also listed there, although a bit lower level than you are after – Corps level trench warfare.

We have experimented with a modified version of "Bloody Big Battles" for WWI and Balkan Wars. Scenarios are available for Kirkkilise – 200,000+ men a side, which three of us played in 3 hours – and for the Retreat from Mons (to Le Cateau), ~150,000 Germans vs 100,000 British, which was more like a 2-hour game for 2 players.

The BBB WWI mod uses a troop scale of 3,000 men per 1" base, with units being division of typically 3 or 4 bases. The rule mods are still very much a playtest version, but they have given us some good games. The mods and scenarios are in the files of the BBB Yahoo group.

Chris
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