Pendraken acquires Blitzkrieg Commander family of rulesets!

[getagrip]

Er - buy the rules.

Units get special rules - such as "First Fire" in BP, giving them an extra die the first time the shoot, or Skirmish, Parthian Shot etc...

IanS

Cheers 

Looking at rules for ACW at the mo so anything which plays like Warmaster is a bonus.

[Sandinista]

Hail Caesar, Pike and Shotte, and Black Powder are in my opinion all infinitely better than Warmaster with Pike & Shotte my personal favourite.

Cheers
Ian

[getagrip]

Hail Caesar, Pike and Shotte, and Black Powder are in my opinion all infinitely better than Warmaster with Pike & Shotte my personal favourite.

Cheers
Ian

Maybe, but if I can find an ACW set which plays in a similar way it won't be too difficult for me to learn.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Black powder works really well for ACW

[getagrip]

Black powder works really well for ACW

And that's similar to Warmaster?

[Womble67]

Black powder works really well for ACW

I also agree, we all use black powder at the Grimsby Wargames Society  http://www.grimsbywargamessociety.com/ for ACW

Take care

Andy

[getagrip]

Do they use the Warmaster mechanics?

[jchaos79]

Do they use the Warmaster mechanics?

They use similar mechanics to warmaster because is made by Rick priestly. When he was out of GW he had to change his game (warmaster mechanics)  to make something similar (what he wants) but rather different to not be a copy of warmaster and have problems with GW.

It is very spread the idea of the "evolution" of warmaster but infact the changes were a must to not be the same product rather than improves of the systems to reapair mechanics. Something that The commander serires ignore taking the same mechanics.

Hail Caesar and other warlord games have command mechanics but only one dice roll per brigade and turn this gives you the chance of make 1 movement or if you are lucky with the roll 3 moves (so you can attack by side)... the spirit is the same the strategy is  more random and in my opinion dilute. Warning I am not saying that Hail Caesar, Black Powder, Pike and Shot are not good Games at all... I am just saying that are not warmaster 2.0 superior systems (in my opinion), as I read somewhere in the net.

Units are more flexibles compose of 1, 2 3, or 4 stands.

In hail caesar the units has two profiles, one for the first round of combat and other for the following rounds of combat (sustained combat)... among other changes.

But yes the philosphy is the same as warmaster (same author).

They are presented as being 28mm because warlord sells 28mm. The core of the game is indeed though for little scales (warmaster philosophy again), making a battle of hail ceaser and other warlord games only possible for clubs or group of people with lots of figures and huge tables.

[getagrip]

They use similar mechanics to warmaster because is made by Rick priestly. When he was out of GW he had to change his game (warmaster mechanics)  to make something similar (what he wants) but rather different to not be a copy of warmaster and have problems with GW.

It is very spread the idea of the "evolution" of warmaster but infact the changes were a must to not be the same product rather than improves of the systems to reapair mechanics. Something that The commander serires ignore taking the same mechanics.

Hail Caesar and other warlord games have command mechanics but only one dice roll per brigade and turn this gives you the chance of make 1 movement or if you are lucky with the roll 3 moves (so you can attack by side)... the spirit is the same the strategy is  more random and in my opinion dilute. Warning I am not saying that Hail Caesar, Black Powder, Pike and Shot are not good Games at all... I am just saying that are not warmaster 2.0 superior systems (in my opinion), as I read somewhere in the net.

Units are more flexibles compose of 1, 2 3, or 4 stands.

In hail caesar the units has two profiles, one for the first round of combat and other for the following rounds of combat (sustained combat)... among other changes.

But yes the philosphy is the same as warmaster (same author).

They are presented as being 28mm because warlord sells 28mm. The core of the game is indeed though for little scales (warmaster philosophy again), making a battle of hail ceaser and other warlord games only possible for clubs or group of people with lots of figures and huge tables.

Sold!

Thanks Chaos 

[getagrip]

Anyone know where I can get a copy?

[Fenton]

I reckon you could pick them up cheap on ebay

[getagrip]

I reckon you could pick them up cheap on ebay

Had a look already but not sure what I'm looking for 

[Fenton]

Could try here as well
http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Category:American_Civil_War

Acwmaster looks ok

[getagrip]

Could try here as well
http://freewargamesrules.wikia.com/wiki/Category:American_Civil_War

Acwmaster looks ok

Cheers mate 

[Fenton]

Or here but I think the acw set here as the same as the other one I posted the link to
http://www.ricks-warmaster.com/ricks_updates-variants03.htm

[getagrip]

Or here but I think the acw set here as the same as the other one I posted the link to
http://www.ricks-warmaster.com/ricks_updates-variants03.htm

Free, is always good 

[cbr3d.com]

Just received my copy of Blitzkrieg Commader rules (bought through Lulu).  Thought I had better start to get to know some of the basics of the core rules before PD's revamp in the autumn.   

[Leon]

Just received my copy of Blitzkrieg Commader rules (bought through Lulu).  Thought I had better start to get to know some of the basics of the core rules before PD's revamp in the autumn.   

[Zbigniew]

I would like to start buying Eastern Front WW2 Pendraken figures. But I wait for these rules first so that I know how to build forces.
Is the a release date for the ruleset confirmed? Rather September or December? Maybe faster ?

[toxicpixie]

You can't really go wrong by starting with something historical on the TOE side - get cracking!

BKC uses one vehicle or 4-5 infantry on a single base as a platoon sized unit, with a HQ stand per battalion or company-ish depending on what you're modelling.

So half a dozen tanks, three packs infantry with a mix of rifles, SMGs, LMGs and a pack of mortars and HMGs, and three HQ bases of a tank plus jeep/kubelwagon or lots of officers pointing and shouting and you're about set for a good game