| John de Terre Neuve | 03 Dec 2017 9:05 a.m. PST |
<img>https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iJSxdHmXeF0/WiP52XsQELI/AAAAAAAAKxQ/C0sYDC3hq7wSbkgCl_nBqrWj857mlCdewCLcBGAs/s400/fullsizeoutput_2544.jpeg</img> Had our first game of Rommel, great ruleset. For AR
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 Extra Crispy  | 03 Dec 2017 10:02 a.m. PST |
Don't use image tags, TMP can't read em:
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| Extra Crispy | 03 Dec 2017 10:04 a.m. PST |
I like your photo style AAR, very nice to see and easy to follow. The gridded map makes an AAr much easier to read…. |
| John de Terre Neuve | 03 Dec 2017 10:19 a.m. PST |
Thanks for fixing the photo, I usually check right away but forgot. iPhoto has finally been upgraded to a point where it is useful to do AR's. You can now add text to photos within the programme. The grid certainly helps with movement as well. John |
Big Red  | 03 Dec 2017 10:23 a.m. PST |
I second EC's comments! What were you using for the mat? |
| wrgmr1 | 03 Dec 2017 10:40 a.m. PST |
Great looking game, thanks for posting. |
| John de Terre Neuve | 03 Dec 2017 11:21 a.m. PST |
That is a Cigar Box 6x4' with 15cm grids. They do a nice job as they are quite invisible unless you are looking. John Not that your mats are not nice as yours, Simon!!! |
| GGouveia | 03 Dec 2017 1:47 p.m. PST |
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| hindsTMP | 03 Dec 2017 6:18 p.m. PST |
This is the best looking Rommel game I've yet seen depicted. I especially like the way the stands look. Good job!! That being said, I still can't get my mind around the level of abstraction chosen by the designer for these rules, at least for the visuals (square grid, etc.). A game which did much better visually IMHO at this level (batallion stands) was the in-development (or abandoned development?) game system presented by Frank Chadwick at the last Little Wars convention (Sidi Rezegh). I haven't heard anything about it since. MH |
| Durban Gamer | 04 Dec 2017 5:17 a.m. PST |
Such an impressive setup for a first game! |
| John de Terre Neuve | 04 Dec 2017 2:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the kind words. I did put a lot of work into the planning, so I am happy it looks good. Certainly the game is abstracted for me as I have only played skirmish level WWII games at the squad level in the past. I really have not played any board games for years so I am not really familiar them so it is hard to comment. I was really looking for a mass tank game that I could play at the grand tactical level where I was focussed on tactics rather then mechanism and this game does a really good job of this for me. Plus I got to paint lots of little tanks! John |
| Mark 1 | 04 Dec 2017 6:46 p.m. PST |
Don't see it mentioned explicitly anywhere in the blog post or discussions, but from the pics it looks to me that you were using 3mm scale vehicles and figures -- correct? If I ever decide to for 1-to-several unit scales, you've provided the model of how I would want do it. Not one tank and a notation that it's a platoon or a company or a whatever formation, but instead a stand with a number tanks, or infantry, or guns, or whatever. Gives you the look of the swirling mass, lets you see that your miniatures are in fact what they look like, rather than just symbols on a board. Not that I object to symbols on a board. But there's a reason I prefer miniatures wargaming to board wargaming -- I want the battle I see to look like the battle I'm fighting. This game appears to have succeeded on all fronts. Thanks for sharing. Quite a feast for the eye! -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| John de Terre Neuve | 04 Dec 2017 7:39 p.m. PST |
Hi 6mm actually almost all GHQ with some CinC mixed in. John |
| Lion in the Stars | 05 Dec 2017 3:56 p.m. PST |
I think I may need to buy Rommel (and probably Blucher). Bunch of the guys like the big battles. |
wonders: Can Fernando do 1/285th?
