Pendraken acquires Blitzkrieg Commander family of rulesets!

[General Bt Sherman]

I find all this news very interesting. I use 15mm scale figures to play BKC II (Eastern front). I've been considering scaling down to 6mm since baccus announced that they were working on a new range. In the past, I have considered using Pendraken, but there are too many things missing to commit. I would consider Pendraken again if I start to see some of these holes being filled. One example would be French commanders. Hope this input helps.

Bryan

[Orcs]

I have only really played BKC2 and really enjoyed it.  It had its quirks, but all rules have them. I played the original BC a couple of times but found the lack of seperate stats for the A/T and AP annoying.

Being a bit of a "Tankophile" I likes the way the combination of number of hits and the save level  allowed more differentiation between types than other popular sets such as Rapid Fire.  

Our club has a few tweaks we use depending on scenario.  The person organising the game decides which if any will be used . ie Can MG's supress tanks in Early War, hits stay on etc.

I played CWC a couple of times and found them ok

The battlegroup Creator was usefull, but had limitations as Nosher has said.

Not wanting to pay for the extended versions I simply used the free ones to create master spreadsheets of all forces avaliable for the particular army/period. I then copied the spreadsheet for a game and edited it to the forces required.  This gave me all the stats for a unit I was "purchasing".  Print the spreadsheet and thats the QR sheet for the game.

I also managed to download a set of stats for WW1 BKC that has now dissapeared off the webb.


Congrgatulations to Pendraken for aquiring them.

[jchaos79]

Yes, great news!

any chance of expand the familly with a "wierd war II expansion" or steampunk expansions??

[Leon]

...any chance of expand the familly with a "wierd war II expansion" or steampunk expansions??

We haven't made any plans at all yet, we'll be starting to look at them in the summer and we can make some decisions then about what needs to be done.

[Shedman]

I believe some of the members on this forum have an ongoing project for steampunk fwc

http://steampunkfwc.pbworks.com/w/page/32245547/FrontPage

[Fenton]

Ongoing is  stretching it a bit I think

[Shedman]

I've got lots of "ongoing" projects that haven't seen the light of day for well over 4 years

[jchaos79]

We haven't made any plans at all yet, we'll be starting to look at them in the summer and we can make some decisions then about what needs to be done.

super

[jchaos79]

Do you consider a "fantasy Commander" or "Mythological Age commander" or "napoleonic commander" or" Roman war commander" ? 

[Ithoriel]

I'd have thought Fantasy Commander is Warmaster and Roman War Commander is Warmaster Ancients.

Napoleonic Commander might interest me though.

[ronan]

(...)  or" Roman war commander" ? 

I read "Ronan war commander" ! 

Time to go to bed, after a hard week 

[jchaos79]

Not really, Warmaster is under GW IP and so on.... inside a draw locked by 7 keys so no one can publish nothing related with it. Same as Warmaster Ancient.

But maybe Fantasy commander or Romman war commander or even Ronan War Commander, or Hyperborea Commander or...  is free (nor really is from Pendraken) and can be published expansions, camapings, scenarios, ...   just a though

[Ithoriel]

jchaos what I really meant was Warmaster and Warmaster Ancients are already done and I'm happy with them. I don't need new rule sets for them. Decent Warmaster-style Napoleonics might be of interest.

[getagrip]

jchaos what I really meant was Warmaster and Warmaster Ancients are already done and I'm happy with them. I don't need new rule sets for them. Decent Warmaster-style Napoleonics might be of interest.

If someone wants to do the same for ACW too

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

In't dat Black Powder.

IanS