Warlord games rules

[Sandinista]

I play very large solo games using both Hail Caesar and Pike and Shotte,and both are well suited to solo play. Easily completed in a day, the command and control system lends itself well to solo play. My old blog has some images of large games I played http://kerikerigamer.blogspot.com

Cheers
Ian

[Adamwest]

Last hussar
Realistically im going to aim for a corpse and see how quick i can get through a game while i learn the rules
Sandinista
Very envious of your collections and living in new zealand! How could you leave god own county though?!

[Raider4]

Realistically im going to aim for a corpse and see how quick i can get through a game while i learn the rules

Ahh, zombie gaming . . .

[toxicpixie]

I really like Blucher but the Momentum Dice (command points) is awkward solo though there's a kind gent has built a spreadsheet macro to handle that!

If you want ongoing "character development" for the army can I recommend another of Sam Mustafa's games and suggest Longstreet? It's not a high level game, you're commanding your Regiment > Division throughout the whole American Civil War and it progresses as you go. Maurice for the c18th has a campaign mode that's quite good, but you want a few players to handle it I'm afraid.

[Adamwest]

Raider 4
Ha! You got me! Im surprised i havent been pulled on my spelling or grammer yet!
Toxic pixie
I have read maurice some years ago now, i loved the imagi-nation building!

[Last Hussar]

Don't aim for the corpse - aim for the buggers who are still shooting back!

TP - How's that going, you used it yet?

[toxicpixie]

Hah, I've been playin fantasy games so aiming at the corpse is actually potentially needed as it might still be moving!

LH, no, see above

I might get the Nappies down when the current Oathmark game finishes. Y'know I swore I'd put "... on this forum" on the end of "...king gentleman" :/

Adam - yes, the imagination building is ace - so much potential for silly names

[Last Hussar]

You don't think I actually bother reading anything you buggers post here, do you?

I might read something Nobby has written by mistake.

[toxicpixie]

Sweet jibbers Crabsticks, LH, no one wants that.

The Centurion pr0n will haunt me for ever!

Actually, don't tell him but I painted this for the Father-outlaw's Xmas pressie -

https://Www.facebook.com/pg/jtppainting/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2534687113447744&ref=bookmarks&mt_nav=1

[Last Hussar]

Bloke at work used to drive tanks when he was in the army. The status lights in the cab of a Centurion are coloured, which is how you are supposed to know what is happening.  Unfortunately he's colour blind, so he made dymo labels. Other drivers looked and went "that's brilliant, why did we never think of that?"

[toxicpixie]

Ahhh the humble label maker, truly mans greatest invention!

[Last Hussar]

I like the bit in Spectre where Bond has 'Borrowed' the DB10 with it's £3m Q-Branch Upgrade, and Q has just Dymo'ed the switches.  It's very British.

[toxicpixie]

 

Good film

[hammurabi70]

Blucher is brigade bases isnt it? Moving divisions around maps is exactly what im aiming to achieve, campaigns and battles being linked with in game effects i.e losses, troops/generals gaining skill

Club choices:


(1) Maurice

(2) Blucher

(3) Pickett's Charge

[Sandinista]

How could you leave god own county though?!

Large chunks of NZ are quite reminiscent of Yorkshire, but with warmer weather. As for reasons many, mainly due to my wife being a New Zealander.
Glad I avoided the BBC chaos - Brexit, Boris and Cocked response to Covid 19.

Cheers
Ian

[pierre the shy]

Good film

+1

I wonder if "M" made him pay it off at 20 quid a week or in RAF parlance the DB10 was just quietly "struck off charge" after its swim in the Tiber?

Getting back to labels I do think that well designed ones are worth adding to each stand where possible. Makes unit identification in larger games much easier.       

[toxicpixie]

"Consumables expended in line of duty"

Like accounting for paper clips

Stop talking about label makers, now I want a label maker! White paper and tape ain't cutting it now I've seen the top table

[Gwydion]

Back to rules for a moment:
If you want to solo play a battle in a day - Volley and Bayonet - the original set for preference, or the 'Road to Glory' second edition if you can't find a copy of the original (ignore the stuff about  brigade skirmishers though - it messes up the elegant simplicity of the original).
Your units are brigades and again there is no line column square  stuff, but you do get to throw in a reserve cavalry Corps when you feel like it.

Works for 7YW to Franco Prussian War or back to Marlburian/GNW (possibly 17th Century, but I'm doubtful) with amendments available online.

[Last Hussar]

Back to [OP] for a moment:

You're new here, aren't you...

Blucher has the Scharnhorst campaign rules in the back.

[Gwydion]

Somebody mentioned this thing about 'maintenance of aim' to me once, can't seem to shake the idea, sorry.