Seasons of War Review pt 1.

[Bishop Lord]

Hi,

Over the festive period I'm going to be doing a review and Battle Report of 'Seasons of War' a recent rules set for 10mm gaming written by Ian Hannam and published by Red Wyvern Games.

Part 1 is now up on the Blog for anyone who wants a toot:-

http://grandscalewargaming.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/seasons-of-war-review-aar-pt1.html

Jason.

[Steve J]

Sounds interesting and look forward to more updates as and when you have time.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good start Jason, look forward to more.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

I look forward to more  - must dig out my copy.  I wonder if they would work for Mongols ...

Edward

[GordonY]

I bought mine to do Sub Roman v Saxons, but ended up buying another set, shame really as they read rather well

[AndyT]

Looking forward to reading more of this.

I have the rules but haven't tried them out yet. I'm hoping they will be a good replacement for the OOP Warmaster series.


Cheers, Andy

[fred.]

I like the start of this, using Warmaster stands, but in unit sizes of 1 to 12 stands.

I'm keen to hear about command and control and combat.

[Fenton]

I remember reading about this somewhere else ...about year ago now maybe seemed rather good at the time

[AndyT]

Command & Control: Units have a "Discipline" rating of either D6, D8 or D10 (could potentially be D4 as well I suppose). This indicates the die to be rolled when activating a unit. The result shows whether the unit may take a Rash, Simple or Strategic Action. A score of 4+ allows the choice of a Simple or Strategic Action

Units also have a Morale rating, again expressed in Dx terms. A morale test involves rolling the die and equalling or beating the amount of damage suffered.

There are circumstances where the Dx rating of a unit can be increased or decreased, e.g. a retreating unit taking more damage is forced to take morale test so it uses one Dx lower than usual.

That is about as far as I have got with the rules at present.

[fred.]

Like the sound of the different dice giving strength / skill of units - this is like the Mayhem rules

Had a bit of a poke round the website - the idea of rash actions and disciplined ones is good.

Then I noticed some of my figures on the army list downloads - and realised that I had corresponded with the author a while ago, but at that time he was only looking at doing 1066 armies, but clearly has expanded his time frame a bit, which is cool.

[AndyT]

I've written some scribbled notes about using the basic rules for the Napoleonic period too.

I must get them typed up some time soon.