"Do You Like Scenario Books?" Topic

For a period that you are wargaming, do you find scenario books to be useful? (Assuming the scenarios are for your preferred rules or can be easily converted.)

Yes.

I love them.
They are the clearest indication of how the author intends his rules to be played.

The best scenario books are not dependent on the rules. We use the British Grenadier books as guidelines for our Age of Reason andThe Sword and the Flame games.

Yes

Yes

Yes

I have used the Asquith and Grant non period specific scenario books extensively and now use a lot of the Neil Thomas scenarios.

I greatly prefer a scenario to lining troops up in a pitched battle….

Mike

I like them because I get very little time to game and much less time to research the battle I might be interested in playing.

Yes, historical ones … more of them please !!!

Yes. I think any rule book with a few included is a degree better than those without.

DM

Generally no. With respect to historical battles, I find that too often, the scenarios lack map detail or are too small in scope. Thinking back about scenario books that I own or have owned, about 1 in 4 have been useful.

Scenarios are all I play. For WWII games I frequently convert ASL scenarios for them.

Yes -- affectionately also known as "shopping lists".

I'd turn this around and ask "Why would you not?"

Yes

Use them, but modify a great deal of each one I use

The scenario's, that is

Yes, good resource for games.

Yes.

As per Irishserb "Generally no. With respect to historical battles, I find that too often, the scenarios lack map detail or are too small in scope."

However, I enjoy conducting the research and reflecting the actual numbers to the nearest 20 men (one figure) plus finding the original maps and replicating the topography to the gaming table making the terrain as realistically as possible. To each his own.

Yes.

Well, that's pretty much all I write, so, yeah!

Absolutely yes!

Yes.

And I buy them!

Tom

Yes.

The Charles Grant scenario books are the most frequently used wargaming books I have.

You bet I do. I'm a sucker for them.

Yes! I haven't painted up any of my ECW armies yet or gotten a single game in… but I have collected all of the Pastizan Press Scenario books for ECW scenarios!Just because they're cool hehe

Yes, subject to the following.
1. The maps need to be useable. Some people want vast detail, but, given that I game on a grand tactical scale, I am looking for stylised maps with only the key features.
2. Maps need to have a scale.
3. I hate scenario books which are advertised as being suitable for all rules sets, but, when you shell out your hard earned, you find that that they are designed entirely around one set of rules.

Yes. Don't have the imagination to come up with my own.

Very much, especially with pictures showing how it played out, etc. For historical battles, always interested in terrain interpretations, as well as which troops are included and which ones missed out – scenarios rarely have the luxury of being able to represent everything.

Ja.

Yes, even if they're for a different set of rules than what I play!

YES!

For an era I'm NOT playing, a good scenario book could (and should) be mined for ideas.

Yes, definitely!

Is this question a joke? By all means yes!