Longstreet

[Serotonin]

Yeah I'm not touching this - 2 decks of cards to play is taking the piss a tad. Shame as core rules look good. Will stick to Black Powder.

[Fenton]

Yep - I also (still) feel stiffed from when I bought Maurice on pre-order (bundle with cards, from his UK distributor, North Star) as we (UK customers) didn't get the free PDF that our colonial cousins did...nor did Sam deign to answer my (very polite) enquiry as to whether we could / should have access to that - given that we'd paid the same amount of money. I also suggested that he could have made this more explicit...

I was also surprised that, for the price, Maurice was softback - and not very robust at that; I reckon I've played about 8-10 games (all solo) and my copy is pretty battered.

I think I'll spend £35 on 10mm toys instead 

well thats about 250-270 figures..so nearly 2 new armies

[Mike L]

"However please bear this in mind: EACH PLAYER REQUIRES A FULL CARD DECK. Read Sam's blurb on this carefully. If you are looking for multiplayer games then even more decks are required and at £12 a throw it starts to get expensive"

You can download the pdf for the action cards of Sam's website. They give you all the cards you need for a game. The full pack provides cards for terrain options, reinforcments personal characteristics that sort of thing. So buy 1 pack and download the spare one. I printed it off on plain paper and used plastic card protectors and they work fine.

My only problem so far is after just about finishing my Union army, I now NEED to get some colored units for them just in case I draw that reinforcment card 3 years into the campaign. 

Mike

[Albie Bach]

I downloaded Longstreet Lite intending to give it a go, but at 26 pages long I decided not to bother. Surely the Lite version should have been kept really simple to get people to try it.

[Leman]

There are different ways of dealing with the cards. I would recommend 2 purchased packs as both sides should have access to all the terrain cards, personality cards and neutral campaign cards (which is most of them). However the action cards which drive the tabletop game are the same as the downloadable ones, so can be used for multiplayer games. It's easy enough to make a couple of DYO cards per pack. Having played the lite version a number of times now I have found the actual game mechanics to be a great deal of fun and very straightforward to play, but then ACW is one of my favourite periods (and what got me started in 1966).

[Mike L]

I downloaded Longstreet Lite intending to give it a go, but at 26 pages long I decided not to bother. Surely the Lite version should have been kept really simple to get people to try it.

The Lite are pretty much 80% of the full battle rules just treating all the troops and guns as the same quality and no cav.
Considering that rule sets are getting quite expensive these days I like the idea of publishing an abridged set so that you can decide if you like the authors ideas and style before paying the cost of an army pack. There are still sets out there that are incoherent and only make sense if you know what the writer was thinking on that day.

Mike

[Leman]

Fair point Mike. I bought the rules after playing five games of lite and after having some of the best wargaming fun I'd had in ages. IMHO the best rules to come out for me recently have been Longstreet, Square Bashing and Dux Britanniarum.

[mellis1644]

well thats about 250-270 figures..so nearly 2 new armies

Your armies are much smaller than mine then...

My ACW armies will be approx 200+ bases each so likely 900 or so figs each. Nut I'm looking to do large F&F games as well as multiplayer Longstreet.

[Leman]

Working on a Longstreet DYO action card where the CSS Arkansas turns up in the river scenario. At last, thinks I, a chance to use my Pendraken Arkansas which I've had for a number of years. Imagine my surprise (well this is the Forum) when I took my pristine Arkansas out of the ACW box to find it still stapled into its Pendraken bag with the  price tag - £6 !!!!!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

When was that bought! 

[Leman]

I think it was at Colours in the mid to late nineties. I bought it to use with 15mm figures as a better size than one in proper scale. I also have a 1:400 Revell kit of a paddle steamer to make up as a small Confederate ram. wish I'd bought more at that time as I would now also like the Carondelet and the Mamora to give the Union something for a different scenario.

[richinq]

I just got these rules,  I really like the look of them,  just need to paint a few more bases of figures before I can play them.

[Leman]

It is well worth going on the Honour website to look at the questions that have come up on the forum there.