"Camerone - 157th anniversary solo re-fight using BBB" Topic
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Tango01  | 21 Oct 2023 8:48 p.m. PST |
"It's a club tradition that we refight Camerone near the anniversary using the excellent scenario from Tim Tilson's Colonial Campaigns book Maximilian in Mexico. The book used The Sword and the Flame rules but I use Bloody Big Battles instead…"
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 piper909 | 22 Oct 2023 9:27 p.m. PST |
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| Sydney Gamer | 23 Oct 2023 3:44 a.m. PST |
Interesting. Didn't know BBB would work for a small action. |
| ChrisBBB2 | 23 Oct 2023 3:55 a.m. PST |
A key feature of BBB is its elastic scale. I made it that way so it could stretch enough to work for the biggest battles, but evidently it works in the other direction to shrink down to small ones. Did you see my report on Bruce's BBB Isandlwana game as well?
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| kevin smoot | 23 Oct 2023 7:43 a.m. PST |
Interesting. Reminds me of Pinnacle's old Fields of Glory rules in that sense |
| Tango01 | 23 Oct 2023 3:36 p.m. PST |
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| Sydney Gamer | 24 Oct 2023 4:08 a.m. PST |
Chris, on shrink-down, could BBB work with small 2-stand units on a 3x2 foot table? If so, would one need to halve all distances? I'm interested because this would make BBB good for 6mm gaming of smallish actions? |
| ChrisBBB2 | 24 Oct 2023 4:22 a.m. PST |
In principle, yes, it would work. If you simply halve everything, that would work for anything within the normal range of BBB. At the extreme ends of the scale, you start to get some distortion that has to be adjusted for. Eg, with very large scales (say a base is 4,000 men and a 12" grid square is 7 or 8km across), artillery starts to act like airpower, so you have to limit visibility. With very small scales (say, 25 men a base, where 12" is <1000 yards), you need to do the opposite and increase the weapon ranges. I wouldn't generally recommend 2-base units being the norm (even though it worked for Bruce's Brits at Isandlwana). You might do better to treat your bases as double bases, so two actual bases on the table count as a 4-base unit, and use some kind of marker to track casualties. |
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