"6mm WW2 AARs - A4 page and 3x4 grid on blog" Topic

I have had an idea to play a WW2 miniatures games on a 3 by 4 grid for nearly 20 years now. The aim was to create a portable game playable in 30 minute lunchtime. Only seriously investigated it over the last 3 years but I have abandoned every attempt at playing rules that work, due to being garbage before playing, or garbage once played.

In about April this year, i had a idea to drastically convert my 20mm WW2 rules, these based on throwing a variable number of dice and counting successes (rather than rolling one die and adding and subtracting modifiers). In my head it made sense and so I wrote up a Quick Reference sheet, grabbed some 6mm figures and cut out an A4 sheet of railway grass mat. I played 3 games at home, and had the opportunity to play 3 games away to see if it was portable. It worked.

I have written a very long blog post on my journey with where it all started, the rules used and discarded along the way, a description of the rules I ended up using and 6 brief battle reports of the games I did play recently. When I say very long. I mean very very very long.

If you want to have a skim, or read the whole thing or just glance at the pictures here is the link to the blog post:

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And just in case you have never seen a 6mm game played on an A4 sheet of paper, this is what it looks like:

That looks interesting. I'll have to come back when I can devote more time to it.

Thank you for sharing this with us. Your game is just the right size for playing on a table in our small house. And a minute ago, I downloaded your rules; they might be just what I'm looking for.

Thank you very much again!

Jeff

Hello Jeff

feel free to play around with rules to suit your tastes – they are not greatly tested and not to everyone tastes anyway!

Thanks Shaun! I'll keep your remarks in mind. I want to check out your original "Advance to Cover" rules too.

Years ago, I painted up some 1/285 WWII Russian and German Afrika Korps micro armor. (Great choice of opponents, huh? What was I thinking?!?) At the moment, I want to complete a modest 1/285 WWII desert war collection which I could use for games with friends here in Austin, Texas. Your ideas and rules are very intriguing!

Jeff

I thought about using some 6mm forces to play some games on a 2'x2' table in the map drawer. Some were going cheap on ebay and I got enough Russians, Brits and Germans to play on something 10 times the size. I have got it covered if I ever feel like playing huge games of 6mm…except I haven't yet ever got the urge :-(