Fight Your Own Battles | 23 Oct 2018 2:59 p.m. PST |
Just a quick unashamed plug for v5 of an old ruleset called Fight Your Own Battles. First released some years ago now and updated several times along the way. To support the new release there is a You Tube channel. Only a small operation and certainly not in the Bolt Action, FoW, IABSM or RF league but its out there for SOLO WARGAMERS to have a look at and try. |
StoneMtnMinis | 23 Oct 2018 3:26 p.m. PST |
Link? It is customary when referencing a video or rule set to provide a link so the TMPer's can easily get to the subject. |
Jozis Tin Man | 23 Oct 2018 5:13 p.m. PST |
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alphus99 | 26 Oct 2018 1:49 p.m. PST |
Has Fight Your Own Wars been updated too? |
Solo General | 26 Oct 2018 3:00 p.m. PST |
Hi alphus99. FYOW is in need of a re-write because the original is now very old and new mechanics are required to make it more playable. As you can imagine, this is not a simple job. I am about to go overseas for the rest of the year and am taking FYOW with me as a project whilst spending loads of hours on aeroplanes. I will feedback with news when I get back. |
Solo General | 26 Oct 2018 3:04 p.m. PST |
Further to the above, I am also finalising Heroes All – a WW2 ruleset designed to be used alongside FYOB. Previously, FYOB has sat alongside your favourite commercial rules but I have found myself playing Rapid Fire, Bolt Action, IABSM (and others)and then running a whole bunch of compromises to make the 2 fit together. Heroes All takes the best of all of the bits of rules I have played over the last few decades, blends them all together and then runs with FYOB to produce games that have been tested at Company and small battalion level so far. There is a lot more testing to do before I go forward but at least this gives me reasons to play loads of different games!! |
Solo General | 26 Oct 2018 3:08 p.m. PST |
Hi StoneMtnMinis. Forgive me but I am still getting used to the conventions. Website is fightyourownbattles.co.uk and YouTube link is here YouTube link I wasn't sure how to make this a hyperlink so simply copied the address. It seems to work though when I submit the post. Thanks for your interest. |
alphus99 | 28 Oct 2018 2:53 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the update Solo General; I look forward to the Heroes All rules coming out – when do you think they'll be ready? |
Solo General | 30 Oct 2018 5:20 a.m. PST |
Hi Alphus99 I am currently in Hong Kong on my way to New Zealand and have brought the rules with me to work on whilst spending all that time on planes. At the same time I am reviewing Fight Your Own Wars and then having to make sure that they both make sense when playing them alongside FYOB. It all aligned in earlier versions but I have recently changed the moving and observation mechanics in Heroes All and have subsequently spend most of my Heathrow-HK flight double checking the references into FYOB and FYOW. You will appreciate that even small changes need to be heavily play tested to ensure consistency and balance. My current job is to make sure that the new Command and Control rules are right – they have to fit with very small games, FYOB, big games and then small campaigns and massive campaigns – quite a sizeable task. To be honest, FYOW came out after running 3 or 4 fairly large campaigns (Sealion abridged, Sicily etc) and a few home-made small ones and I was happy with the result. When I got into more campaigns with interesting features, the rules started to creak so I started to add house rules and tweaks almost from the beginning. I am not keen to have to do that with HA and so will get them out there when they have been pressure-tested. I know this means a delay but rather that than putting out a set of rules with problems. I will, of course, keep putting out updates – the blog which appears on fightyourownbattles.co.uk is always worth having a look at from time to time. |
alphus99 | 30 Oct 2018 1:29 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the update, Solo General – will await with interest! :) |
Solo General | 27 Nov 2018 2:49 a.m. PST |
Just a quick update. I have today made the decision that Heroes All will be released through the FightYourOwnBattles website free of charge. This does not mean that it will be a bashed together anything goes piece of work – they will be as good as I can get them! I just feel that I am just blowing my own trumpet to charge for them – the whole point is to get people solo wargaming, not to get me some income. I may also extend this position to the rewrite of Fight Your Own Wars. Version 1 ran to nearly 100 pages and v2 may come a close second but I feel that making it free feels right. The rewrite is some way away but keep an eye on the website for developments. |
alphus99 | 09 Dec 2018 2:01 p.m. PST |
Great news! Please let us know here when you release them :) |
Mr Jones | 20 Dec 2018 6:44 a.m. PST |
Thanks, I will take a look. |
Solo General | 14 Mar 2019 4:13 p.m. PST |
TODAY IS A BIG DAY. Today, the Heroes All rules are released along with the revised FIGHT YOUR OWN BATTLES mechanism, a weapons CODEX and the same data as a set of printable CODEX cards. AND THEY ARE ALL FREE OF CHARGE AND AVAILABLE NOW at fightyourownbattles.co.uk More weapons for the CODEX to follow – it only contains British, Geman, American, French and Italian at the moment. Russian, Polish, Finnish at least to follow in time. ALL feedback welcome. |
alphus99 | 19 Mar 2019 3:29 p.m. PST |
Great news @Sologeneral! Thanks! |
alphus99 | 19 Mar 2019 3:31 p.m. PST |
Just a note, the Downloads link in the main text on the home page is broken |
Solo General | 20 Mar 2019 2:13 p.m. PST |
Alphus99 Many thanks for letting me know. I was redesigning some of the pages after closing the "shop" and must have missed that one. Now rectified. Thanks again SG. |