What ruleset do you use in your last game?

[KTravlos]

Black Powder with Crimean War Amry Lists from the rulebook. Russians very British. I was the Russians. Near run thing but I won. I had fun with the game.

[skywalker]

1/ Rapid Fire
2/ Falschirmjager with armoured support Vs US 101st Airbourne with amoured support
3/ Yes
4/ Use it all the time when using 15mm but use Bolt Action for 28mm WW2

[Aksu]

1) Longstreet
2) 1862 Union (Pennsylvania) vs CSA (Virginia)
3) Yes - had a hoot even though I lost
4) No, probably 6th game with the rules so far.

Cheerios,
Aksu

[Chris Pringle]

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game?
Bloody Big BATTLES! (Rules for late nineteenth century)

2) What armies were confronted?
Union vs Confederate: we fought all three days of Gettysburg in under three and a half hours, total adrenalin rush.

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset?
Yes - comfortable enough to have published the rules. So you may want to discount my answer above as mere marketing hype.

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset?
No (unless you mean first time this week) - it's been our staple diet for the past five years.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info

[bigjackmac]

All,

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - 5Core Company Command
2) What armies were confronted? - British vs Germans in Italy, late 1943
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - I've played them five times, but very comfortable as they use the same activations and combat mechanisms as another set of rules (Five Men in Normandy) by the same publisher, which I've played approximately 20 times.

Cheers, happy gaming, and Merry Christmas!

V/R,
Jack

[Leman]

Last Thursday at the club it was SYW using Black Powder. The game went well, but I had to get used again to the unusual close combat system. which I find a bit counter-intuitive, i.e. work out who won not for the purpose of casualty removal but for the throwing of morale dice. This can have sudden and dramatic effects if you roll low with negative factors. However, it does produce a realistic and positive result to a game over two or three hours.

[Bodvoc]

Finally got to try out the Sword and Spear rules last night.
We used my 6mm Hoplites and Early Persians.
The rules went down very well with my gaming friends, so much so that we are going to play again next week, so that's 4 new players of the rules.
This was our first game, so the first two turns went quite slowly but then we got quicker as we got used to them. Trying to figure out how best to allocate your 'action dice' is a really good aspect of these rules.
Overall, a really promising ancients game system.

[Simon15]

) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Neil Thomas Ancient and Medieval warfare
2) What armies were confronted? - Kallistra 100 Year War French and English
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes - simple but gave the right feel.
4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - no

[Last Hussar]

Puritan: that's because BP doesn't have casualties, which I think is a good thing. Too many rules refer to kills etc, so you have impossibly small units surviving on the battlefield. At Waterloo the Inniskillings took 33% casualties, which was noteworthy high. On the table a unit a third down are just warming up in most rules!

[Hertsblue]

Puritan: that's because BP doesn't have casualties, which I think is a good thing. Too many rules refer to kills etc, so you have impossibly small units surviving on the battlefield. At Waterloo the Inniskillings took 33% casualties, which was noteworthy high. On the table a unit a third down are just warming up in most rules!

Agree entirely. 30% casualties were reckoned fierce even in the Great War of 1914-18. The problem is, if you water the rate of attrition down to authentic levels nothing much happens and your game stretches out to days. That's why our group prefers rules where no casualties are removed and attrition is just a declining series of numbers (and the figures are easier to pack away at the end).

[toxicpixie]

I'm with Last Hussar and Hertsblue on that!

[KTravlos]

I used Big Bloody Battles. I was very happy.

[Leman]

Durr - I know all that . What I meant was just because you cause most kills, or whatever else you want to call it, doesn't necessarily mean you've won the melee/close combat/ getting quite near the enemy. Happens especially with cavalry who appear to have won by causing most casualties but frequently end up bouncing off after combat results have been carried out. I actually like the system because it pays players who mass their troops for support rather than spreading them all over the place. I'm also a fan of systems which don't remove casualties - BP, Principles of War, Field of Battle, Impetus, Poleaxed etc.

[Luddite]

Bolt Action.

My Russians took on the Germans again.

It was a bloody draw too.

The Germans forgot to issue ammunition but their StuG support was driven by, well, frankly a mad man who proceeded to run over half my company.  The utter cad...

[Last Hussar]

Lion Rampant

4 player game- Byzantines (Me) allied with Normans vs Moors (Sujester) with Italian allies (Orcs).

2nd try, last tried it before Christmas, Seemed easy to pick up, and got a lot done in 2 hours

Orcs lost his General in an honour challenge from the Normans, Sunjester's went down to me driving off his skirmish riders then throwing 2 units of Cavalry, including my General, repeatedly at his General.

Quote of the evening
SJ - " I shoot at that unit [Mine]"
"Why don't you shoot at that one - its got his general in"
Me "Shut the F up, you are supposed to be on my F'ing side" 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

How is Sunjester?

[Last Hussar]

Trampled.

[toxicpixie]

Bolt Action.

My Russians took on the Germans again.

It was a bloody draw too.

The Germans forgot to issue ammunition but their StuG support was driven by, well, frankly a mad man who proceeded to run over half my company.  The utter cad...

Do you play in 28mm as Warlord "Suggest", or one of Gods own scales? I've found in 28 it looks and feels daft but using 6/10/15 or even 20mm figures it gives a very decent game!

[Leman]

What's the basing/movement convention in Lion Rampant? I play Dux Bellorum in 28mm using 10x50cm and 10x75cm bases and it looks good. Any base size will do as movement is by b/w.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

None as such, units are represented by a command distance.

ianS