Quick straw poll as to which of the popular WW2 rulesets people play?

I'm currently into Battlegroup, but still enjoy BKC for shorter/smaller games. I have fond memories of RF and nightmares over FOW. What about you?

Chain of Command for Platoon level games, with BKCII for Battalion and up (or Company if playing at a smaller level). FoW just never did it for me, even as a game.

BKCII here!

Just love the way it plays out, the command rolls make it double exciting as you never know if the plan will work!


I will also play USE ME ww2, but still have to get the models finished!

I Ain't Been Shot Mum for Company-level and Chain of Command for platoon-level (but not in 10mm).

Greetings

Chain of Command (20mm)
IABSM (mainly 15mm but the desert 10mm may well get used for this and I have used 20mm)
BKC II for 10mm
(I've not played anything this year but these are all on the list for the next few months)

Others likely to be played at least once this year are Battlefront WW2 in 15mm and one of the Battlegroup games (probably Kursk) in 15mm or 20mm.

I used to play RF a long time ago and got a cheapish copy of the 2nd edition rules recently out of interest.  Have the rules (1st ed) for FOW but never played them.

Regards

Edward

Flames of War.

*waits for fur to fly*

Oh Lemmey! No! Say it isn't so!

Hi

BKC all the way

It has it`s faults but we always get a laugh playing it.

Especially when my pal Dave blunders two turns in a row with the same command.

A clean dry pair of trousers were needed  .

Jim

BKCII but the òore I play it, the more I find it slow paced.

In fact, it reads far better than it plays.

Quote from: barbarian on 20 January 2014, 06:26:01 PM
BKCII but the òore I play it, the more I find it slow paced.

I'm surprised because we've found it fairly quick to play.

We're playing with forces of roughly a battalion of tanks and a couple of battalions of infantry plus support and finishing easily in an evening. I wonder, are we a) fighting smaller battles b) failing so many commands the game ends faster c) not thinking enough about what we're doing d) playing some (or all!!) of the rules wrongly?

Or do you consider a force that size taking an evening per game to be slow?

We play with one stand representing a platoon.

We've learned the rules by reading and playing as a group of four and I'm always wary of "group think" resulting in a game very different from the one the designer envisaged.

Only House Rule we play that I can think of is that we remove one point of damage per turn for "normal" troops. Conscript types remove none while fanatics and elites remove 2.

BKC II for bigger games

FOW for smaller games

of the 2 BKC II is much better for a bit of solo play

We play the original rules (with hit removal) : That should be it.

Plus : Russians in Mid-eastern front doesn't do much except fire by reaction, as their command is so low.

Plus lines of sight across various types of terrain driv me nuts.

Quote from: barbarian on 20 January 2014, 08:20:48 PM
Plus : Russians in Mid-eastern front doesn't do much except fire by reaction, as their command is so low.

Both of our Russian players played with Orc armies in Warmaster so I guess they're used to it!

Can't say they're too static in our games though - lots of HQs and everyone doing the same thing clearly helps.

Chain of Command for platoon level
IABSM for company level
BKC II for bigger level actions

All in 10mm. I like them all and always have fun!

Spearhead in 6mm

To quote one of my semi-regular opponents, " I don't get out of bed for less than a brigade" 

Great for really big games, multi-player, multi-divisions on 6x24 foot table