The group at Little Wars TV have released a free game called Ravenfeast. It's a skrimish game that can be played in any scale, but it wouldn't be hard to turn it into a larger scale game if you wanted.
The group has several published authors of Wargaming rules including Disposible Hero's, Alter of Freedom and Age of Hannibal. The idea behind Ravenfeast was to be a gateway game into historical Wargaming.
You can download the rules on the game's website, along with tutorials, getting started craft tips etc. Later this month they play to add a Norse Mythology supplement as well.
http://www.ravenfeast.com//
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Here's a link to Little Wars TV's most entertaining YouTube video:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=macRgkAACBQ&t=179s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=macRgkAACBQ&t=179s)
What a great idea, and very nicely executed
Quote from: fred. on 03 December 2020, 09:47:44 PM
What a great idea, and very nicely executed
I agree, the group is trying to do their part to keep Historical Wargaming alive for the next generation. We all know the greying of the hobby is real but hopefully that doesn't mean that it will end with the grey hairs. Personally I think it will live on, it will probably look a little different then what we see today, but hopefully the spectical of little figures being pushed around a table recreating famous and not so famous battles will not die out.
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Looking good.
regards
Sean
Ta La
Many thanks, now downloaded.
That's a great idea and the videos are very entertaining. The guys certainly had fun playing and the blue-on-blue incidents were brilliant!
Little Wars TV uploaded the first how to play video. Just basic stuff like game phases and combat.
[URL]https://youtu.be/zIoGbrTVED8/URL]
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Fixed the link for you. :D
This is a great idea, and I wonder whether small, period specific and "cinematic" freebies are our new future.
(Based on a sample of Ravenfeast, and the Billhooks game).
I think they are a very interesting attempt to get people into historic gaming
I've seen quite a few skirmish level fantasy games popping up as well over the last few years
They all seem to be trying to reduce the 'investment' required to get started, Wings of War is another example of the low effort to start type game
Quote from: paulr on 13 December 2020, 04:16:18 AM
I think they are a very interesting attempt to get people into historic gaming
I've seen quite a few skirmish level fantasy games popping up as well over the last few years
They all seem to be trying to reduce the 'investment' required to get started, Wings of War is another example of the low effort to start type game
There's always a lot of quibbling about where "Skirmish" ends and battle begins.
A lot of purists on another forum insist it is only a skirmish if each figure activates and fights independently.
I've preferred a looser idea that the actions are "skirmishes" - hardly a concrete definition.
If you wanted a definition, I'd go with, "One junior officer, and no heirachies: Maybe a platoon in modern warfare, a company in Horse and musket, or up to 60 men in the age of cold steel/bronze.
I rather like the "Rampant" rules series by Daniel Mersey, published by Osprey.
They are easy to learn, and provide a quick game where most outcomes are obvious (no beginners getting 'mugged off' by the expert player).
The I haven't played recent condensed ancients offerings by Warlord and Lardies, but I imagine they are pitched at a similar level.
I do believe that this is the scale of wargame that will see greatest growth based on two assumptions.
1. That new historical players are likely to be people who enjoyed Warhammer or similar during their childhoods (We now lack the "classic gateway" of Airfix and toy shops).
2. That smaller games and smaller armies are more accessible to players with realistic quantities of free time, table space and storage space.
Admittedly there are fewer toy and hobby shops around in UK. the closure of Model Zone was much lamented by my friends and I. However in the stad a couple of weeks back and the model shop had a vast array of 1/72nd boxes of plastic figures. Most were WWII, but amongst them were boxes of Airfix including the WWI Americans dressed for Mexico in boy scout hat. No one appears to have told them about the problem of shrapnel in France. However there were also boxes of ancients, and a single box of SYW cavalry by Italeri.