Hello everyone,
A few months ago, I had started to work on a WW1 rules set with help of some friends. Trial by Fire rules will be adaptable to both Great War and early 20th century battles; but they will focus more closely on Middle Eastern Front and wars of Ottoman Empire. What I plan to do is to share the rules free for everyone and in future, if I may do that, publish a rulebook. The book will cover the rules in detail, history information, suggested army lists and scenarios. I'm thinking of including four main fronts in rulebook for start; 1. Gallipoli, 2. Middle East, 3. Caucasus Campaign and 4. Greek-Turkish War of 1919-22.
In Trial by Fire, players control regiments, which are composed of several battalions. The basic tactical unit is the company. Game also features a "Regimental Orders" optional rule, where players will be able to give written secret orders to their units. Distances are compatible for both 10mm and 15mm gameplay, whichever players prefer. Of course anyone is free to adapt them to bigger scales like 28mm. (converting cm to inches would be good for this)
Anyway, rules are still being written. Here is the google docs format;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EADd9-PJ8VtahKdCo53Sb7bd0YzAzYk_55BMktz9Cyg/edit
And here is the international facebook project group;
https://www.facebook.com/groups/166864450318149/?fref=ts
I'm all open to every suggestion and input from you guys. Please comment / critique and if you're interested, follow the project. There are still many parts uncovered by rules and these are just the foundations of rules. If things get going, I plan to do more things about this rule set, include many more fronts and battles, provide a lot of army lists from ANZAC infantry fighting in Gallipoli to Tribal Light Cavalry forces used by Ottomans in Middle East.
Anyway, enough talking, hope you like them...
M. Batuhan Tuncdemir (an historical wargamer from Turkey)
EDIT: FEB 2016 - Here's the latest version of rules with some sample army lists and scenarios
http://trialbyfirerules.blogspot.com.tr/2016/02/rules-revised-and-sample-lists-scenarios.html
Put in a Google request.
Sounds interesting, will keep an eye on these as they develop
Please keep us posted
Quote from: Subedai on 10 September 2015, 07:04:28 PM
Put in a Google request.
Ditto.
Great to see more stuff covering the middle eastern conflicts of WWI. Look forward to checking your rules out.
- Neil.
Hello
Being a Rules Junkie, I've put in a Google request too.
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Thank you all for the interest!
The link I shared above was the one for editing. I shared it with all who asked.
Here is the link which is just for viewing, those who want to comment on document etc can still ask me for edit sharing. Those who just want to view the file, can see the below link.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EADd9-PJ8VtahKdCo53Sb7bd0YzAzYk_55BMktz9Cyg/edit?usp=sharing
These look very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Great start Mehmet. There is a facebook group and I uploaded two draft army lists for Turkish Nationalists and Greeks for the War of Turkish Independence (Asia Minor Campaign) . Mostly based on a greek military history magazine, and the new Osprey book on the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922.
Much thanks Konstantinos! I will revise them sometime and share them as "beta army lists" if you're also fine with that.
No problem
I'm liking what I've read so far, which is admittedly not much. Intend to spend tomorrow reading the document from front to back.
I'm guessing any comments are best posted to the Facebook group, yes?
- Neil.
Facebook group is good. But actually anywhere you feel comfortable is ok for me, including here :)
I'm quite interested in this but not on Facebook. :(
KTravlos - is there anywhere else to see your army lists? I'm currently looking at putting together Greek and Turkish armies (for a start) for the Balkans conflicts.
They are in fb group :D :D :D
But I'm revising them and think of putting them to the blog in a few days. Will let you guys know when it's done.
If Batu Khan wants to put them in a google drive file and share them, that is cool with me. Otherwise I can do it.
Quote from: KTravlos on 13 September 2015, 05:25:54 PM
If Batu Khan wants to put them in a google drive file and share them, that is cool with me. Otherwise I can do it.
If you could do that, that would be great!
http://trialbyfirerules.blogspot.com.tr/
They are ready! ;)
Note: The unedited versions may be found in fb page or by-contacting KTravlos.
A quick basing question:
In the rules it states:
QuoteWe use 5 bases in 50x30 dimensions to represent a Full Strength infantry unit
What does a "unit" equate to? Company? Larger? Smaller?
- Neil.
Company. :)
Thank you. That's about twice the scale of If The Lord Save Us. Might try using a smaller number of bases and see how things play out.
- Neil.
New version of rules is out, with visuals and more examples.
Enjoy!
http://trialbyfirerules.blogspot.com.tr/
Duly grabbed. I have an evening in a hotel this week, an ideal time to give them a thorough read through.
- Neil.
Waiting for your comments! Also, first miniatures for this game are painted and uploaded to the blog.
I have revised the rules, made them more easy-going and included many more stuff. Hope you enjoy the changes. They're in my blog:
http://trialbyfirerules.blogspot.com.tr/2016/02/rules-revised-and-sample-lists-scenarios.html
The first post of this topic is also edited.
I've just found this thread - I must see if I can get hold of a copy of these rules.
(see link to the Battle of Tannenberg World Ward 1 thread)
Many thanks
Mark