"Firepower miniatures AAR" Topic
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| josta59 | 08 Jun 2016 7:02 a.m. PST |
This may be of interest to some of you. I rewrote the rules for Avalon Hill's board game Firepower (1984) to make them suitable for use with miniatures. It uses a mechanic based on chit draw. I played a lopsided game set in an ISIS-held town to test the power of that mechanism, and it was kind of interesting. Here's the report: link |
| Dynaman8789 | 08 Jun 2016 7:18 a.m. PST |
Have to read that later today, Firepower is practically a miniatures skirmish game just as written – with lots of stats for modern (as of 1984) kit thrown in to boot. |
| josta59 | 08 Jun 2016 8:01 a.m. PST |
Yeah, so I just changed the hexes to inches and simplified the facing rules. I also made it MUCH easier to read and understand (at least for me), and cut it down from 4 pages of wall-to-wall dense pages to 2 pages of much simpler reading. That includes some tables, which are on a different page in the original rules. They had to make everything so difficult back then. |
| Kraken Skulls Consortium | 08 Jun 2016 8:31 a.m. PST |
Oh yeah, blast from the past. I was only 14 when they came out, and had no patience for dense rulesets. I had bought this one then, and gave it a go, but never could get anyone to have a run with me. It was before I tried miniature gaming. I may have to give it another look now. |
| Joe Legan | 09 Jun 2016 5:38 p.m. PST |
A blast from the past!
RIP Craig Taylor Joe |
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