"A Coat of Steel" Topic

I have written up an interesting Wars of the Roses wargame played using the excellent A Coat of Steel rules. The link to my Blog:

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I would like to hear other's views of the Perfect Captain's idiosyncratic WotR rules!

Thanks for the write-up. Only played these rules once, using 10mm figures. Enjoyed the game very much and felt they gave the " right" kind of feel for this period. There is a lot of printing to do to set up the game, but once done the cards etc can be used over and over. Choosing strategies is a real skill and adds a nice element of uncertainty to games, the " scissors/ paper/ stone" type method of determining combats is also great fun.
Must play again.

Nice. I'm working towards this. It will be awhile before I have that many figs for the battles.

Have not played them, but have printed, read them. It looks to me like a very very goo system.

Great rules – only wish they were a little easier to do "pick up" games.

Highly recommended non-the-less. Bags of period character.

Locally it's known as 'Coat of Chits'.

Although I like the related strategy game, A Crown of Paper, my group does not follow the unit composition rules contained therein too rigidly. That is, if we build and paint Retinues we like to use them, regardless of what the Character Cards say. We still follow the rules for company composition, ie. min 6, max 16 stands per Company with contingents of 3 and 4 stands staying together. As we build bigger armies, we will be able to follow Crown of Paper more closely.

I personally really like the character cards and all the other beautiful "props" that are available on-line for this game. As steamingdave points out, once you have made them, the game pieces can be used over and over again.

The Perfect Captain takes a very different approach to games with strong focus on historical feel and character. Although highly idiosyncratic, I think they are some of the best games available.

I do suggest you "sleeve" everything you can including the action cards. I now print the components on full page labels and then mount them on good quality card stock. The unusual sizes of some of the cards means you will end up trimming the length of some sleeves but I have finally located good quality commercial sleeves for all the components. The other alternative, having laminated cards made for the game, is just too expensive. However if anyone decided to do this, I would buy them with pleasure.

Conclusion: this game is keeper!

I'm working on the cards. The personality cards are easy enough, just print, laminate, and cut out.

I did the same thing with the action cards (the deck you need in the game). It was fine to do the same, print, laminate, and cut out, but they are warped slightly. With the personality cards it doesn't matter so much, but with these it makes them a little difficult to do.

Anyone have tips on how to get warp out of laminated playing cards?

Try running them through the laminator again and – when they come out hot – put a reverse curve on them.

It worked for me, last time I tried it but I can't guarantee anything!

John T