"Using TMWWBK rules for interwar colonial skirmish" Topic

I was wondering if anyone had tried using The Men Who Would be Kings for the Back of Beyond or similar?

Would it work?

Thanks

Jim

I was wondering if anyone had tried using The Men Who Would be Kings for the Back of Beyond or similar?

Would it work?

Thanks

Jim

No reason it wouldn't work. Rifle ranges can stay the same, you might want to fiddle with the machine gun stats, Vickers were better than maxim, but it's not that important. Possibly introduce something to represent Bren type LMGs. Fighting on the NWF for the British was the same in 1897 as it was in 1937.

Sorry, forgot about aircraft, you could just have one bombing run per game or ignore them at this level.

Yes That's what I was thinking.

You'd need some rules for vehicles too including armoured cars.

The MG rules and stats in TMWWBK are good for Gatlings and other hand-cranked MGs, however, there's a big performance difference between these and gas-powered MGs such as the Maxim, Colt, and Hotchkiss, which is why I've created a separate profile for the latter for my Mexican Revolution variant: four dice per crew figure; range 30 inches, no jamming; cost 7/9 points. The Vickers MG was just an improved Maxim, so it can also be comfortably accommodated by this profile.

Henry, that's a very neat, clean adaptation for later period MGs, which would presumably also work well for pom-poms as well – consider it borrowed!

Any thoughts on how to handle firing on armoured vehicles on the NWF?

I still remember Featherstone (punitive expedition in 'Wargames Campaigns'?) recommending rolling plasticine boulders down the hills onto the advancing British, converted from Airfix 8th Army figures.

Can you share your Mexican Revolution variant?

I posted all of it on TMP two years ago, including numerous unit profiles, under the title 'Converting TMWWBK for the Mexican Revolution'. Happy reading.