Having bought some new figures for a company vs. company-sized game,I started wondering about basing some of the ones I don't need on individual metal washers, so I can use them for WW2 skirmishing. I was going to ask you gentlemen if you've got any rules to recommend.
And then I thought, what a shame the battle-group rules I love don't have a skirmish version. After all, they already have all the weapons and armour defence factors listed that I need. What if I write my own rules and use the same lists? But do I need to? After all, reducing the number of weapons a figure-base represents isn't going to alter the distance they can fire. But defence?
So converting the battle-group game to skirmish means a base will represent one soldier instead a 2-4 man section. A tank represents one tank, not 2-3 in a troop and an aircraft is one aircraft, not a flight of 2-3. So the reduction in representation seems proportional. The only difference I see is that the new skirmish group can fire a wider variety of weapons at more targets.
I have the sense shells getting a "hit" on one figure spells the end rather faster than getting a hit on 2-4. But then again, you were just showing a "hit" that was worth registering from 2-3 shells; the scale remains proportional. Same with artillery or air-power beaten-zones.
Target acquisition? Your spotter having to find four tanks has an easier job than just having to find one. Then again, in the larger game, you're factoring in that not every tank might get spotted, and maybe one spotter-base is three spotters; who knows. So perhaps its all proportional. If it isn't, it's too complicated for such an incremental thing.
I've thunk my way out of seeing any problem at all in playing skirmish with company-company rules. I mean, all I'd have to do would be to write some character cards with variable morale or effectiveness factors for the hero and the coward and maybe some granular event cards, like "tank runs out of petrol", "rainstorm reduces visibility" and for the English, "tea-time"… and we're off.
Must have forgotten something. What do you chaps reckon?
