Just wondering what they are like as a ruleset

Cheers

Great, I will prod the author to give you some tips!
Nick!

Cheers.. I couldn't really tell the website what scale it's meant to be. Is it 1 model=1 tank?

Yes Fenton the vehicle scale is 1:1

You can download a free PDF with the introductory rules ( http://www.sabresquadron.com/rd.pdf ) from the Sabre Squadron homepage at http://www.sabresquadron.com/index.html

Been keeping one eye on these rules for a while now as looking for a small scale cold war set - Sabre Squadron has had some very good reviews.  

There are some other small scale (i.e. company/platoon) level rules due out later int he year too, including an "Ultra modern" version of TFL's Chain of Command called Fighting Season (a bit too modern for my taste, prefer cold war stuff personally).

A future project on the back burner for now  

Thanks Pierre the Shy, you beat me to it.
I'd add, if you go to the website and click on the magazine tab at the top you can download issue 1 of Squadron Briefing which features a detailed blow-by-blow account of a game with tanks only.

BTW - if anyone wants to review any of the new Pendraken stuff, I can put it in the next issue.

Nick

What's the infantry figure scale? Is that 1:1? I can't access the details from work & I have no patience... 

Two bases is a squad, so a British Falklands squad is mg/support weapon stand  then stand of rifles. Three of those and a co is a platoon (plus light mortar and whatever else you want to attach).

It's 1:1 but infantry are based in groups of 3-5 figures representing roughly a fire team. As an example, a mid-1980s Soviet Motor Rifle platoon consists of:
3 BMP/BTR each carrying:
1 Rifle Group with Squad Automatic Weapon and light disposable RPG
1 Rifle Group with Heavy RPG

Support weapons such as ATGM, SAM, HMG are based separately.

N

Sounds very decent. I'll investigate further when I can. Thanks

They are good rules. They handle a couple of companies per side. I use then for Vietnam War and will use them for my cold war stuff as soon as I finish painting them.

Thanks guys. I'll have a closer look

Sound interesting - will have a look when I get a spare half hour...

Has anyone actually played these yet? The freebie rules do look interesting & quite simple, but I'd want a printed copy & £25 is not to be taken (or given) lightly...

I'm thinking of using 3mm minis for them - any opinions on the feasibility of that?

I have
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,13316.0.html

and

another game where my W German's successfully held the supermarket and swimming pool from the soviet hordes! Two great games, but I was playing the author! 

Quote from: Wulf on 11 July 2016, 08:48:45 AM
Has anyone actually played these yet? The freebie rules do look interesting & quite simple, but I'd want a printed copy & £25 is not to be taken (or given) lightly...

I'm thinking of using 3mm minis for them - any opinions on the feasibility of that?

Well they are not that cheap but guess you can try the "lite" rules for free - if you like them enough then you may choose to go ahead and buy the full rules. Not many rule sets let you "try before you buy".

Kieran, a well known modern gamer from Auckland has been trying SS in 6mm and certainly they seem to work OK from the battle reports he has been posting:  http://6mm.wargaming.info/page4.shtml

While personally 6mm scale looks fine to me I am not sure how well 3mm would work given the vehicle and troop scale is 1:1 and only a company or two per side?  you would have to have a smallish table (2' X 2')  

I have several brigades of 1980's NATO and Soviet 6mm based up for Modern Spearhead that have not been on the table for some time....a bit of rebasing and hmmm....but as they say "that's a story for another day"