Took a break from my work on the Spanish Civil War to play a game of "It's Getting A Bit Chile" via Zoom with players in Northamptonshire, Cornwall and Washington State. https://wargaming4grownups.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-short-break-in-bolivia.html (https://wargaming4grownups.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-short-break-in-bolivia.html).
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The game was played in 15mm, but only because I built my armies before Leon released his excellent 10mm range, which works equally well with the rules!
Trebian
Good to see this war being given a bit of exposure. Apparently it is possible to adjust the size of photos when posting, although I am no expert and struggle with this kind of thing myself.
It's using the img tag and puting a number in - round about 150.
I couldn't adjust the size of the picture - at least I couldn't work out how to do it. I'll go in and try to edit it.
I just amended the link to a smaller picture.
It was good to get back to this conflict. It deserves a lot more exposure. The sources are good, there are a couple of good figure ranges, it's important, and, well, I wrote rules for it.
Very nice looking game Trebian
Your terrain certainly captures the feel of the region really well :)
Glad all the Llamas survived OK ;)
Great report
Thanks. I like the clean simplicity of it. And the llamas.
I find painting the base board the same colour as the figure bases quite effective.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 06 March 2021, 05:42:50 PM
Great report
Tnanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Hope it encourages you to buy loads of Leons excellent figures.
And my rules, of course (which include flags and a uniform guide and a brief history of the war. Everything you need to get started).
Tempting, very tempting
Quote from: mmcv on 06 March 2021, 06:13:58 PM
Tempting, very tempting
As Oscar said "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it".
Buy the rules, then make up your mind ;)
Quote from: Trebian on 06 March 2021, 07:43:53 PM
As Oscar said "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it".
Buy the rules, then make up your mind ;)
Haha, it's on the wish list. Moving house shortly then once I see how many pennies I have to rub together I've a few new hobby projects on the list. Considering starting something 19th century and South America is certainly in the running... ;)
Interesting to see a different war getting some exposure :)
Resized the picture
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Adding the width=800 in the [img] tag controls the width of th image
Resized the picture
Thanks. That's a useful tip. I couldn't make it work. Putting the tag in the wrong place.
I'll stick to Writing rules, not coding.
Quote from: mmcv on 06 March 2021, 11:21:19 PM
Haha, it's on the wish list. Moving house shortly then once I see how many pennies I have to rub together I've a few new hobby projects on the list. Considering starting something 19th century and South America is certainly in the running... ;)
Some of the South American wars are excellent subjects. The armies look great and they are manageable in size, compared to European and North American conflicts.
Quote from: Trebian on 07 March 2021, 09:40:21 AM
Some of the South American wars are excellent subjects. The armies look great and they are manageable in size, compared to European and North American conflicts.
Yeah some of the bigger conflicts I'm considering dabbling with some skirmish or small action rules in first before going too deep on a big battle project.
What would be a typical number of bases needed for a small-medium action? Looking at your pictures there looks to be around 30-40 bases a side all in? Or is number of bases per unit just an aesthetic convention rather than a rule requirement?
Quote from: mmcv on 07 March 2021, 10:45:53 AM
Yeah some of the bigger conflicts I'm considering dabbling with some skirmish or small action rules in first before going too deep on a big battle project.
What would be a typical number of bases needed for a small-medium action? Looking at your pictures there looks to be around 30-40 bases a side all in? Or is number of bases per unit just an aesthetic convention rather than a rule requirement?
My designs are usually for brigade/divisional battles minimum, with the battalion/cavalry regiment as the smallest unit of manoeuvre. For these rules a battalion is 4 bases, and 3 battalions to a brigade. A Division is 2-3 brigades. This game was two large brigades, with 8 battalions aside, which is a small game, but worked fine. I don't tend to think in terms of bases, but your estimate of 30-40 for a game is about right. The 4 bases are used to show the formation a unit is in, which is important. You'll notice in the pictures that the "DISORDER" markers are tucked under the bases. Depending on the formation a battalion can ignore Disorder, and such markers are hidden. If you change formation they may appear and become a problem. e.g. A unit in Open Order can take 2 Disorder markers before it starts to suffer. If it changes into an Attack Column, without rallying off the Disorder those markers can no longer be ignored. Of course, this is just my way of managing the mechanism on the table top. You could do the same with a roster, or formation markers, inverting the Disorder markers, for example.
BTW If you hadn't noticed the game is normally played on a grid (you can see the corners of the squares are marked, if you look closely) so basing conventions aren't so important as in a tape-measure game. If you don't like squares, the rules have a section on how to play without them.
Thanks, yeah I'd read a few reviews in the past and saw the grids. I'm happy enough using them, I've a few rulesets I play with grids so no issues there. I'll pick up a copy in the near future and try out a test game with some counters to see how things go!
Quote from: mmcv on 07 March 2021, 12:05:51 PM
Thanks, yeah I'd read a few reviews in the past and saw the grids. I'm happy enough using them, I've a few rulesets I play with grids so no issues there. I'll pick up a copy in the near future and try out a test game with some counters to see how things go!
Thought I'd better mention it, as they set some people off! The rules have my email address in them. You can always ask if you have any questions.