| huevans011 | 05 May 2020 11:45 a.m. PST |
I've had some 28mm Paul Hicks / Footsore minis for 1914 Tommies hanging around for ages and never painted them because trench warfare seemed boring and impractical to recreate as a wargame. Lately, I had a brainstorm. Why wouldn't I use them in a WW1 commando type skirmish game – i.e. raids from small boats onto German occupied Belgium or the Vaterland itself??? The lockdown-driven madness escalated and I envisioned my Tommies landing from airship dirigibles to seize German VIP's and top secret documents! I called my imaginary chaps "C-Force" in my head. Empress does both WW1 era RN and also Spartacist sailors and Nationalist freikorps usable as late WW1 German Imperial navy and army respectively. So I could purchase and build a German nemesis and counterpart to C-Force – Die Wotansmacht-Abteilung! Can anyone suggest a set of WW2 skirmish rules for commando type ops that could be modified for WW1 gaming with less capable automatic weapons and small boats (and airships) suitable for WW1 ? Maybe 20 figures a side and appropriate victory conditions and objectives? |
 Extra Crispy  | 05 May 2020 11:57 a.m. PST |
GASLIGHT would probably work. It has a Victorian SciFi supplement available too. |
| John Armatys | 05 May 2020 1:08 p.m. PST |
I recommend the Donald Featherstone "raid" rules in Wargaming Commando Operations link They are very simple and great fun! You'll have to do your own scenarios and victory conditions, but I've run a number of very successful multi-player games with one side umpire controlled and 9 to 12 figures being run by the players. Player blogs on the games can be found here:
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| dwight shrute | 05 May 2020 2:13 p.m. PST |
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 Bobgnar  | 05 May 2020 2:41 p.m. PST |
Ganesha Games Flying Lead are good rules for skirmish games 1800 to the future link |
| boggler | 05 May 2020 3:37 p.m. PST |
Fistful or Lead would work well or perhaps Where Stem Guns Dare from Nordic Weasel but with a few WW 1 tweaks. |
| boggler | 05 May 2020 3:41 p.m. PST |
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| SBminisguy | 05 May 2020 4:59 p.m. PST |
NUTS! would easily work for that. |
| Wargamer Blue | 05 May 2020 6:42 p.m. PST |
Black Ops from Osprey Games. Used it a few times for WWII commando Raids. |
| huevans011 | 06 May 2020 6:10 a.m. PST |
NUTS! would easily work for that. Does NUTS! provide for mission objectives? And does it have rules for stealth, boats and demolition? I am going to assume that any dirigible rules are going to have to be written by YT. |
| coopman | 06 May 2020 6:10 p.m. PST |
You may have to make up your own rules for the boats. |
| Tango01 | 27 Apr 2021 4:13 p.m. PST |
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| Basha Felika | 01 May 2021 7:34 a.m. PST |
"Chain of Command" works well with a platoon per side. There are supplements for both the Spanish Civil War and 1930's Abyssinia and im sure I've seen a couple of articles in one of the TFL Xmas Specials about using them for WW1 skirmishes as well. |
| Vimy Ridge | 16 May 2021 8:49 p.m. PST |
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| williamb | 17 May 2021 9:58 a.m. PST |
Our club used the Fistful of Lead rules for a Historical WW2 Normandy scenario where a US paratroop unit overran a battery of German artillery. |
| FlyXwire | 18 May 2021 6:19 a.m. PST |
This is new I think – (it popped up in my email today) - link Maybe something along the "commando" lines to explore more. |
adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.
