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.
Sounds interesting and look forward to more updates as and when you have time.
Good start Jason, look forward to more.
Greetings
I look forward to more - must dig out my copy. I wonder if they would work for Mongols ...
Edward
I bought mine to do Sub Roman v Saxons, but ended up buying another set, shame really as they read rather well
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
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.
I remember reading about this somewhere else ...about year ago now maybe seemed rather good at the time
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.
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.
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.