What ruleset do you use in your last game?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's the question.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?
2) What armies were confronted?
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset?

1) Xwing
2) Rebels, Imperials and Smugglers (six players)
3) Eventually, the other five have been playing constantly since the rules came out. Once I got the hang of it, it was a great game (even if I kept miscalculating distances and bumping into other fighters)!
4) I've played once before, a one on one game vs a friend, this was massively bigger (asteroids, adrift Correllian Corvette, tooled up smugglers, stealth ships, we had the whole nine yards)!

I lost three of my four ships vs the clubs most experienced player, but learned a huge amount (and eventually got two of his)!

[Shedman]

1. Bolt Action
2. WW1 1914 Germans v French in 25mm
3. Very comfortable
4. Nope - used for them for Sci-Fi, Cowboys and NWF but not for WW2

An AAR on my blog http://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2014/08/skirmish-at-phaffans-french-v-germans.html

[toxicpixie]

You know, I was thinking Bolt Action would go well for WW1 just the other day! I have a box of Airfix Brits I was going to sell, but I might just keep and do a matching box of Huns and give it a bash...

[paulr]

You know, I was thinking Bolt Action would go well for WW1 just the other day! I have a box of Airfix Brits I was going to sell, but I might just keep and do a matching box of Huns and give it a bash...

I hear the flapping wings of another butterfly  

[toxicpixie]

You know me well

[TinyTerrain]

1) Sword & Spear
2) Pictish Warbands
3) Very easy to follow ruleset
4) First tim eIve played them, will definately be using them again, v nice Command mechanic

Cheers,

Craig
Tiny Terrain Models

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

1. Blitzkrieg Commander II
2. German v Soviet 1943
3. Yes - a few blips because of foggy memory of how some bits work
4. Used a number of times but not recently

Regards

Edward

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's the question.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?
2) What armies were confronted?
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset?

1) Naval Thunder
2) Battle of The Rivet Plate, twice.
3) after an initial head scratch as one if the lads had misread the hit/penetration rule, it was very easy and really good fun.
4) Yes.

Both games saw Spee concentrate her fire on Exeter, and then be finished off by Ajax and Achilles.
Exeter lasted four turns on game 1, only two in game 2.
Spee took an engine hit game one that slowed her right down, and lost her fire turret. Eventually she was silenced.
Game 2 she took a hit that exploded her ready ammunition on her secondary armament, then lost a turret, and was silenced by Ajax and Achilles guns.
Great night, the lads liked the rules and are up for more games!
Exeter under fire game 1

It got a bit close between the heavies

Light cruisers move in

Game 2

[paulr]

1) Naval Thunder
2) Battle of The Rivet Plate, twice.
3) after an initial head scratch as one if the lads had misread the hit/penetration rule, it was very easy and really good fun.
4) Yes.

Both games saw Spee concentrate her fire on Exeter, and then be finished off by Ajax and Achilles.
Exeter lasted four turns on game 1, only two in game 2.

Achilles and Ajax sound a bit more effective than Harwood's assessment at the time, "We might as well have been throwing snowballs at her."

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

They got lucky! 

[Hertsblue]

Exeter always gets hammered. It's a law of nature.

[Nosher]

Managed to get a game in between shifts...

1) Bolt Action
2) home made 10 turn scenario based on teh river Wesel Assault/Breakout - Commando force v lots of inexperienced Volksgrenadiers
3) They're ok and my preferred set for solo play because of the random command generation die
4) No - use them as my staple for pick up and play solo WW2

Hadn't thought of using these for Wild West..... or for WW1. now head-scratching over whether these could be adapted for skirmish napoleonics.....

[Luddite]

6mm Star Wars Pod racing using Spin-out rules from http://www.runtus.org/page11.htm

The pods - http://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2014/07/star-wars-pod-racing-in-6mm.html

The race - http://twomarshals.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/star-wars-pod-racing-in-6mm-race-1.html

Those are bloody inspired!  I've a feeling i'll be doing this....

[Nosher]

1. Bolt Action
2. WW1 1914 Germans v French in 25mm
3. Very comfortable
4. Nope - used for them for Sci-Fi, Cowboys and NWF but not for WW2

An AAR on my blog http://twomarshals.blogspot.com/2014/08/skirmish-at-phaffans-french-v-germans.html

Interesting.... do you have any lists and modifications you have made to the rules? i'd be very interested in seeing them

[Leman]

1. Maurice - the start of an imaginations campaign.

2. Grand Duchy of Hoysee (modelled on SYW Austrian), v. Grand Marquisate of Flamboyance (modelled on SYW French)

3. In this campaign each army started with 90 points plus 2 randomly drawn national characteristics and 2  randomly drawn notables. Flamboyance drew Koreczki, Polish cavalry leader, and Duklevich, a Baltic leader of irregulars, with the national characteristics of oblique and professional train. Hoysee drew the spy and an attack of the gout with the national characteristics of  massed formation and cavaliers. To throw a spanner in the works, in the next battle I must face the army of the avaricious Bishop of Keller (modelled on the Prussian army) with the notable Bragge and the spy, and the national characteristics of cadence and artillery school. As the Marquis of Flamboyance I scored a marginal victory over Hoysee and took control of Kleine Hoysee, a very useful river port, which unfortunately borders the Bishopric of Keller. My victory, though, was hard fought and bloody and I have had to replace many trained troops with conscripts, although two of my units rose to elite status.

4. The game rattled along quite quickly and was quite tense towards the end when Hoysee put in a massed infantry assault on the Flamboyance left wing infantry and routed half of them from the field, but earlier success on the right wing had secured a marginal victory for Flamboyance, when the sun set owing to the cards running out. The strength of these rules lies in the imaginations campaign of at least three nations. They do not work well as a two nation campaign and I think they are less successful as historical rules. The three or more campaign does not require three players. The loser of the previous battle simply takes on the non- played army in the next battle. The war ends when one army (not player) wins two consecutive battles.