one hour wargames by neil thomas; different cover question

[petercooman]

Come to think of it, AWI seems a likely candidate too....

And maybe anglo zulu war. Does that work with these rules?


I guess what i'm actually looking for is an excuse to buy small armies of 28mm perry sculpts

[Steve J]

Well I've just ordered the book as the scenarios and campaign system sound interesting, plus they might make ideal rules for quick pick up games when time is limited. I can see my Red & Blue coloured blocks getting an outing soon...

[petercooman]

Well I've just ordered the book as the scenarios and campaign system sound interesting, plus they might make ideal rules for quick pick up games when time is limited. I can see my Red & Blue coloured blocks getting an outing soon...

Well, my 2 mm napoleonic armies are essentialy red and blue blocks too 

And they are getting an outing tonight 

[Leman]

For the ECW why not go Lorenzo Satori's Basic Baroque. It certainly was a free download with army lists as well.

[petercooman]

For the ECW why not go Lorenzo Satori's Basic Baroque. It certainly was a free download with army lists as well.

See my above comment:

I am still going back and forth on what i want. I like basic impetus, so there is the option of doing these in one of the impetus variants. The one thing that holds me back is the one base=one unit style of impetus. I like having multiple bases per unit, and depicting the formations.

I have seen a preview of the OHW book and there was an optional rule for forming square. That's the sort of thing i like. Sadly that is not to be found in impetus.

Since basic baroque is an impetus variant i think the same things are true? Or are they different?

[Leman]

Basic Baroque and Baroque have three bases to a unit. The standard ECW infantry unit is two bases of musketeers to one base of pike. See Fat Wally's site for what these look like in 15mm:

www.fat-wally.com

[petercooman]

Basic Baroque and Baroque have three bases to a unit. The standard ECW infantry unit is two bases of musketeers to one base of pike. See Fat Wally's site for what these look like in 15mm:

www.fat-wally.com

Interesting, i thought they were also a one base per unit affair 


Well, i haven't played 2by2 after all today, been reading reviews of the different Neil Thomas books. Curse you internet!!