"Small 20mm WW2 battle report with 5Core skirmish on blog" Topic
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Shaun Travers | 03 Sep 2016 5:58 p.m. PST |
It has taken me awhile to get around to trying 5Core. I have wanted to since Five Men in Normandy came out a few years ago. I have been dithering and trying out my own rules but a recent WW2 game with my children made me think about using 5Core. This was due to wanting a game that has no dice modifiers. I am glad I did and have documented a recent game I played solo. It is a small game, 7 British advancing against 5 Germans that have to defend a building. I used 20mm plastics on a 2'x2′ table. It was fast, fun, furious and tense. To read about the battle, here is the link to the blog post: link Early on, the Germans managed to fire on all the British:
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RetroBoom | 03 Sep 2016 6:12 p.m. PST |
FYI, the link doesn't seem to be correct, but the post was easy to find. I love fivecore, and 5C Company Command is one of my go to games, period. Glad you've come around to them! And great post, please share some more :D |
Shaun Travers | 03 Sep 2016 6:16 p.m. PST |
No idea why the link did not work, but replaced it with a link that seems works. Thanks for pointing that out, and tanks for looking! There will be more, but have to play them first ;-) |
normsmith | 03 Sep 2016 9:44 p.m. PST |
Shaun, nice snappy action, interesting to see that the potential doubling of fire capability (by not marking reactions etc) does not seemed to have harmed the feel of the game. |
Weasel | 03 Sep 2016 10:12 p.m. PST |
Thanks for sharing! Glad you came around :-) Jack had tested some games with "full" reactions and he liked the effect though I don't know if he liked it enough to keep it permanently. In the [redacted by censors] I've been working on for a while, elite troops react with full firing dice while the insurgents react with shock dice only. |
Shaun Travers | 03 Sep 2016 10:35 p.m. PST |
Hello Ivan, It has taken awhile for me to see the light of your genius :-) I am quite taken by the full reactions, but only because I am coming off the back of NUTS! If I had never played NUTS! I believe I may have thought full reactions were madness! I am very likely to use them in at company level, unless it turns out to be horribly unbalanced… what is good (or bad) if that the various rules all have variations and I am picking up a couple of variants that are already in a particular ruleset. Only a couple though – such as a 5Core Panic only has a retreat if aware of an enemy within 12". Minor things, but fits my view of WW2 warfare. I also like that insurgents, or maybe Green troops never having been in battle before, fire reaction with shock dice. I already have written down that Green troops can't test for recovery with a Firefight command (picking and choosing form the various discipline tables). Anyway, sorry for the delay in giving these rules a go – you have one more convert; better late than never! |
Just Jack | 04 Sep 2016 6:22 a.m. PST |
Shaun, Awesome! Thanks for posting man. It looked like a lot of fun, and 2' x 2' looked plenty big even for 20mm. Regarding full reactions, hell, I've done so many different things I can't even keep them straight anymore ;) Using 'full' reactions is something I do pretty regularly in skirmish games now, based on the quality of the troops and the quality of the shot. And letting each man/stand react and act each turn 1) eases tracking/markers, and 2) really makes the fight violent and quick. For Vietnam I plan on using full reactions but only act or react each turn. And I don't let guys that are pinned, hunkered, or knocked down react. Well, I let pinned guys snap fire if you're charging into close combat… Again, I don't even really think about rules anymore, I just go with what feels right ;) That's why it's funny to me when I read stuff like 'hunkered (panicked) troops only fall back if aware of enemy within 'x' inches.' I get immersed in the story, so he falls back if he's a coward or he's legitimately feeling too much pressure, or he doesn't if he's a real hard-ass. Cheesesailor – Do you have a blog with any batreps? I'd love to see some of your Company Command games. Ivan – What are you up right now? V/R, Jack |
Weasel | 04 Sep 2016 9:40 a.m. PST |
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Just Jack | 04 Sep 2016 7:22 p.m. PST |
I'll bite: what the hell does 'sandbox' mean??? V/R, Jack |
Weasel | 05 Sep 2016 2:53 p.m. PST |
It's dry, it's full of angry people with AK's and you're going in on a foot patrol. |
Just Jack | 07 Sep 2016 9:35 p.m. PST |
I'm not going anywhere, 'specially wth you ;) Are you writing again, or actually playing something? V/R, Jack |
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