What Was the Last Ruleset You Played in 2024?

[T13A]

Hi

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - For King and Parliament
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliamentarian v Royalist (Cookham Moor from the Marlowe to Maidenhythe scenario booklet).
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 3
6) What went well? - Excellent game with these rules as usual, went down to the wire.
7) What could have been improved? First time that we didn't manage to quite finish a game probably due to terrain restrictions.

Cheers Paul

Cheers Paul

[paulr]

I'm curious about you not quite finishing the game  

How long did you play for?

Did the stream delay Parliament badly?

[T13A]

Hi Paul

It was both a fun and interesting game. I think we started to throw dice at around 10am and finished at 3pm with a break of about 30-45 minutes for lunch (we use D10's and chits rather than cards and after trying all the methods extensively I really do not believe that cards are any quicker, and of course not a card in sight cluttering up the table)! I think we played 10 complete turns with 4 Parliamentarian and 2 Royalist medals left at 3pm. I suspect it was the extensive woods on the table rather than the stream which delayed and constricted things, with of course a lack of 'light' units; there were no dragoons in the scenario and only one unit of commanded shot on each side. I think another issue is the number of hedges that there are in the published scenarios (in general) which is nothing like the number that were around in 17th century England. Some people just seem to think that as you are playing ECW you need plenty of hedges all over the place which I would suggest is simply not true (with exceptions of course)!

Cheers Paul 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - Lice Free or Die (AWI)
2) What armies were confronted? - British (Neil)Vs American (Me)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - After half an hour of playing, Yes. Way more comfortable than last week's rules.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - Yes
5) How many players were in the game? - 2 plus a mate umpiring.
6) What went well? - Excellent game with these rules. Skirmishers holding down two regiments of regular British in fields, the Legion crashing into and scattering two militia units before being shot away. Securing the road to Trenton and our damaging the British.Holding two elite units with other military in combat! The Americans snatched a win.
7) What could have been improved? Not losing Washington to a cavalry charge, which knackered command for the rest of the game!

Will need to think how to boost my armies, little short of figures, thankfully I don't need to rebase the armies!

[paulr]

Thanks Paul, very close to a conclusion then The  map does look very constricted, and those woods would certainly make it hard to get onto anyone's flank.

Mi'Lord Speedy, good to hear you have found a rule set you enjoy for AWI

[Keraunos]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - Lice Free or Die (AWI)

Lice Free or Die is a new ruleset to me.  I expect to see a variant for Ancient Britons vs Romans now that archaeologists have shown that the Romans introduced bedbugs to Britain. 

[Keraunos]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - The Men Who Would Be Kings
2) What armies were confronted? - Boshin War Shogunate Loyalists vs Imperial Restorationists using the scenario 'Get off My Land'.
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 3
6) What went well? - A lot of uncertainty in the scenario.  Defenders don't know where the attackers will come from.  Attackers don't know where defenders have laid ambushes.  Lots of objectives give both sides lots of opportunities and decisions to make.
7) What could have been improved? Second time we have played the scenario.  On both occaisions it has been an uphill struggle for the attacker, ending in failure.  May need some extra asset for the attacker, or reduce defender's strength.

[Elliesdad]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - The Men Who Would Be Kings
2) What armies were confronted? - Boshin War Shogunate Loyalists vs Imperial Restorationists using the scenario 'Get off My Land'.

What figures did you use for this game? The period is very interesting and I could be tempted to "dip my toe" into it - but without investing too much time and money.
Cheers,
Geoff 😉

[Keraunos]

What figures did you use for this game? The period is very interesting and I could be tempted to "dip my toe" into it - but without investing too much time and money.
Cheers,
Geoff 😉

The figures are various 28mm but all bought and painted by my son so I am not familiar with the makes or prices.  Let me ask him for details when next I see him.

[Elliesdad]

The figures are various 28mm but all bought and painted by my son so I am not familiar with the makes or prices.  Let me ask him for details when next I see him.

Thank you. I was half thinking you might have played it in 10mm, so wondered if there were any minis (or at least "proxy" figures) I was unaware of.
Thanks again 😉

[Keraunos]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - Twilight of Divine Right
2) What armies were confronted? - Parliamentarian v Royalist (Cheriton, using the scenario in the rulebook).
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No
5) How many players were in the game? - 4
6) What went well? - 2 players had never used the rules before but found them simple to pick up.  My side won.
7) What could have been improved? - Not a good introductory scenario for new players as the terrain is very difficult to move through before armies can get to grips.

Used 10mm figures for this.  Quite a lot of Pendraken.

[paulr]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - For King & Parliament with the Celtic Fringe extra rules
2) What armies were confronted? - Covenanters v Royalist (Kilsyth from the Montrose scenario book)
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No, but it was the first time for 2 players and the Cringe Fringe extra rules were new to all but 2
5) How many players were in the game? - 8
6) What went well? - a very enjoyable day for all involved with the Royalists managing a narrow hard-fought win
7) What could have been improved? - based on the feedback from the other players not much, if anything

[Ithoriel]

Sounds good, Paul, I expect a full debrief on the 9th!

I hope there's an AAR coming here too.

[Orcs]

1) What ruleset did you use in your last game? - The Men Who Would Be Kings

7) What could have been improved? Second time we have played the scenario.  On both occaisions it has been an uphill struggle for the attacker, ending in failure.  May need some extra asset for the attacker, or reduce defender's strength.

I was involved in a campaign at club using the scenarios in the book, The defenders won every single game in the campaign, regardless of what army they were.

On one scenario I had to place my troops at least maximum firing range from one table edge. As I had regulars with a range of 24 inches, My forces were a line of single figures down the centre of the table.


We concluded they had not been properly play tested.

[Keraunos]

I'm not sure if we have played every scenario but we have had some very good games, the defender's not winning all the time.  Here is a report of one game