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| Shaun Travers | 19 Aug 2016 10:41 p.m. PST |
I have been very slack. This game was played back in July. And I wrote most of it up in the first few days after the game. Then I did nothing else with it. But today I have spent an hour and finished it all off. Mostly due to a few of you gently telling me I need to post it. Anyway, my 7 year old son has been banging on about playing an actual game with my 20mm soldiers. The planets aligned and we had a morning free to do so. And my 9 year old daughter said she was keen to join in. I did it as a co-op game with the 3 of us as the British taking a village occupied by the Germans. It was played on half a table tennis table. Loads and loads of fun all round. I have ideas on what rules to use next time based on what did not work this time and what has worked in the past. I go into more detail in the post on why, but basically not to use modifiers to the die roll, but add or subtract dice with the same number to hit always being the same. And lastly, and very surprisingly, they thought the table was too large and want to play on a much smaller table next time. Based on my games played in the last 5 years, this is obviously extremely achievable. Anyway, loads more pictures, narration and discussion on the game at this blog post: link A shot of my son measuring to move up his forces after knocking out some Stugs:
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| normsmith | 20 Aug 2016 1:54 a.m. PST |
Shaun, what an absolutely marvellous gaming moment, the simplicity and fun really comes through and causes me to pause about the amount of complexity that has entered some of my games. reading this transported me back to my teenage years and the the 'fun' that I had with games. |
79thPA  | 20 Aug 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
Excellent. I think most of us probably owned some of those RR buildings at some point in time. |
| vtsaogames | 20 Aug 2016 6:22 a.m. PST |
Nice. I like your assault rules, may crib them. |
| Weasel | 20 Aug 2016 9:12 a.m. PST |
wonderfull. thanks for sharing |
| Bill Slavin | 21 Aug 2016 12:59 p.m. PST |
Shaun, I got back into gaming by finding my old Airfix collection in the basement and repairing it for my nephew. In the end he got none of it (!) but we did spend large parts of his youth gaming, setting up tables and discussing battles. Now at 22 he is a history major and one of our regulars in our annual game.
So great to see you have your kids joining you at the table! |
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