Soory to have shelved this for a while - Ive been distracted by Warband and Studies in equal measures!

It looks like WW2 is the period of choice so how do people want to progress with this?

I guess for me its seeing whose in and whose not and then we can take this off forum to discuss via email perhaps?

Thoughts??

The war which, more than any other, couldn't be campaigned without scores of players with thousands of figures each. Realistic starting choice.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 September 2015, 07:14:33 PM
The war which, more than any other, couldn't be campaigned without scores of players with thousands of figures each. Realistic starting choice.

thousands of figures each? I don't have THAT many

Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 September 2015, 07:14:33 PM
The war which, more than any other, couldn't be campaigned without scores of players with thousands of figures each. Realistic starting choice.

Majority vote.

My WW II (Late War in 6mm) consists of:



for the Germans



for the Brits



for the Japanese

I have a medium sized Russian force but no pics.

E-mail seems like the way to go.

Quote from: Nosher on 29 September 2015, 07:52:19 PM
Majority vote.

Most convincing argument against democracy = 5 minutes' conversation with the average voter.

And as with any system there's no pleasing everyone.

What period did you choose FK? WW2 wasn't my preference and a lot depends on who wants to 'play'. If WW2 doesn't attract I'm more than happy to go with another period

There ain't no problem that the good will and clear thinking of man can't solve.

I suspect that WWII is one of the most popular periods. One may opt for the 2nd Schleswig War, but no too many people will have figures ready. This would suggest that one opts for the bigger periods - ancients, ACW, Napoleonics, WWII.

Whatever your choice, you will find that there is a number of difficulties. I have a nice 1940 German force that I wouldn't like to pit against an equally sized 1945 force of most other nations.

Surely each individual player plays their own jigsaw piece of the whole picture. You have force A. You fight force B and defeat it. B retreats. Do you advance? It depends upon how mauled you were and (unless you're Patton) what's happening on your flanks.  It's not beyond the wit of man to devise a ruleset where force A is US WWII 'armored' battlegroup, and your flanks are protected by Mongols and Spartans, let alone French and Canadians.

It's just a question of scale and imagination.  

I could do 2nd Schleswig War!

Nothing against WWII, just aware that it was a VERY big one.

2nd Schleswig was was 1864. Could have an imagi-nation campaign in which the Danes are supported by the Confederates and the Prussians by the US. 

Sorry ... got off track for a moment.

You don't need thousands of figures to refight WWII. I use a scale of 1 model is 1 vehicle. Lots of people use 1 model - 1 troop. Upscale to 1 model - 1 squadron and my 15 model Sherman squadron becomes quite enough to represent a tank brigade.

If we have 10 members playing allied armour then you've pretty much covered Normandy at this ratio.  

Admittedly, you might need a few more for the Eastern front!

And there's the Atlantic, North Africa, Norway, the Balkan and Italian campaigns, SE Asia, India, Hawaii, Biggin Hill, Poland, Malta, Crete....good luck to you, because your fingers are going to wear out painting stuff even at 1 model = a brigade.

I ran a little WW2 campaign for a group of friends a year or two back.

Map was a series of 5 box tracks superimposed on a world map.

Tracks were - Western Europe, Eastern Front, North Africa and Far East

Western Europe boxes, for example, were labelled Operation Sealion (1:3), Dunkirk (1:2), D-Day (1:1), Ardennes (2:1) and Berlin Bunker (3:1). Status marker started in D-Day.

Every week I totted up reported results (3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss - original, no? ) and the markers moved one space in the direction of the current odds, Allied:Axis points per theatre, or stayed put if already on them.

Players reported suitable games and appropriate tracks - e.g German vs US could go on North Africa or Western Europe but Japan vs US naval had to be Far East.

Games could be anything - big battle, skirmish, land, sea, air, solo or multiplayer. I ran a weekly game session at the house with four or five players usually turning up to play BKC, Crossfire or General Quarters and it provided some fun for a few weeks.

Any of that provide inspiration?

I can do eastern front, normandy (british army, paratroopers and germans), and market garden, and of course naval operations  for british, french, russian, italian and germany.


Will be a bit at random, as i'll have to fit it in when i have time!