"Rules - Not Detailed Enough!" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 Aug 2018 2:44 p.m. PST |
We asked – TMP link In general, would you say that wargame rules today are too detailed, or not detailed enough? 22% said "not detailed enough"
14% said "too detailed" 49% said "none of these/no opinion" |
14th NJ Vol  | 10 Aug 2018 4:38 p.m. PST |
Problem is wargamers read about a single event in a war, and they want it in wargame rules. You can't cover ever single event on a table top. As I've gotten older playability is all I look for in rules. Old and lack of patience. |
| robert piepenbrink | 10 Aug 2018 5:23 p.m. PST |
You know, given that I were a commercial publisher, if 22% of my potential customers said rules weren't detailed enough and at least 63% disagreed, I would not take that as a mandate to layer on more detail. |
| jurgenation | 10 Aug 2018 5:56 p.m. PST |
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 Extra Crispy  | 11 Aug 2018 8:07 a.m. PST |
More and more I want *more* crunch in my games. After a while all the Bolt Actions "roll d6 for 4+" blend together… |
 etotheipi | 11 Aug 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
You can't cover ever single event on a table top. This is what drives my distinction between "rules" and "scenario" for QILS. Very little is in the rules, but it is flexible enough to allow less than a handful of scenario rules change plain rice into jambalaya. It's also why the rules are free and I charge a bit for the scenarios. |
| WKeyser | 14 Aug 2018 11:04 p.m. PST |
I think Extra Crispy has hit the nail on the head all those roll d6s and hit on 4-6 and then roll to save seem to blend together. It seems fewer and fewer rules are really trying to capture a period and more often than not it seems the design goal is few figures and finish in 3 hours. Not how do I represent the difference between tactical doctrines of the the two armies. I don't mind parts of the rules to be "simple" like rolling for combat but please somewhere put some meat into the game, hopefully in the command and control aspects of the game. So I think simple some places and crunch in others is the way to go. |
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