"One Hour Wargames for Skirmishes??" Topic

All,
To those familar with OHW, will the scenarios work if translated to a skirmish level? IE, a couple dozen figures per side. I'm always looking for scenarios I cna use for French and Indian War.
Nick

I don't see why not, great idea!

One Hour Wargames? Associated with 2 hour wargames?

No, the Neil Thomas rules.

I wouldn't think so. In OHW units take hits and usually after several turns of this, are destroyed. This makes sense since the unit may be composed of hundreds of men. In a skirmish game, one hit could be fatal to a unit of one man. The scenarios, with their 15 turn time limit are designed accordingly.

I would just give yourself a little more time and go with Two Hour Wargames for skirmish rules. 😉

Two Hour Wargames has nothng to do with it. My question was wether the One Hour Wargames sceanrios could be made to work for skirmishes!!

Nick, I don't see why they wouldn't work. Objectives are sort of the same just the scale is different.

"You guys go over there and shoot whoever tries to cross the river."

"Take your brigade downstream and secure the ford on our flank"

yeah, I think they would work great. Two Fat Lardies also has a lot of scenarios for Sharpe's Practice that would also be great.

Yes, the scenarios would work fine. Some of them are based on the CS Grant ones (which also work well).

Depends what you mean by a skirmish. As Calico Bill says, the hit point mechanism might require at least as many men as hits in a unit. What about missile ranges? Suppression rather than just kill results? Command and control?
I haven't played OHW but these are some of the areas I'd consider.

Most of the scenarios should work. I use the scenarios, but never his rules. You might want a different force composition roll.

I use the rules but not the force composition rolls. I design my own scenarios, mostly.

Neils Intro. to Wargames Bk deals with skirmishes

And if you don't have the full two hours to commit to a larger game you could always just use the one fat lardie. 😁

I think the scenarios make more sense for small skirmish sized forces in some cases, say Sharp Practice sized, than a whole Brigade. As long as you have around 6 – 8 maneuver elements, it should be a cinch.

For more scenarios and good examples of converting them, go on wargames vault and pick up the Table Top Teasers book from Battlegames Magazine in PDF. It presents most of the scenarios in Horse and Musket format, then a replay that may be in teh Ancients period, WW2, or even in one case 40k!

I tried a few scenarios with a separate skirmish rule set. Didn't work well because there was not enough scenery. You need a bigger table with more scenery for the number of units you suggested.