Sounds like a good game, just not for the Americans

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Baroque

2) What armies were confronted? - 6mm Parliamentarian v Royalist

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Mainly yes.

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No,

5) How many players were in the game? - four players with 2 commands each.

The Royalists were given a good hiding by the Parliamentarians (I was Royalist and my dice throwing has not improved!). We still all reckon that dragoons are too powerful in these rules. Last night a unit of dragoons took on two charging units of Royalist cavalry (first unit were also Elite Fighters) and won!

Quote from: Bodvoc on 25 October 2016, 06:26:45 AM
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Baroque

2) What armies were confronted? - 6mm Parliamentarian v Royalist

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Mainly yes.

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No,

5) How many players were in the game? - four players with 2 commands each.

The Royalists were given a good hiding by the Parliamentarians (I was Royalist and my dice throwing has not improved!). We still all reckon that dragoons are too powerful in these rules. Last night a unit of dragoons took on two charging units of Royalist cavalry (first unit were also Elite Fighters) and won!

I concur. Dragoons need downgrading shooting wise.

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Regiment of Foote

2) What armies were confronted? - Late Royalist and Parliament

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No

5) How many players were in the game? - 2 Last Hussar and myself

Lesson to self - be (even) more aggressive! I was defending with the Royalists. I had my poorer infantry units on the right flank behind a stone wall, my veterans in the centre and massed my cavalry on the left, where there was open ground. LH massed his cavalry to face mine, deployed just enough troops on the other flank to pin mine guys there and launched as massive infantry assault in the centre.  As the countdown reached a score of 6 the cavalry had achieved mutual destruction (I had a couple of unit off table in pursuit, but they were both at a reduced strength) and, following a prolonged fire fight, LH had 5 infantry units closing in on my veterans. I decided to use the parley rule to end the battle early and in the end I'd achieved a marginal victory for the King.

We decided to play on, as we had time, "to see what might have happened". I threw my infantry forward, attack being the best form of defense, and promptly routed several of his units in quick succession!

1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Bloody Big Battles! (BBB)

2) What armies were confronted? - Confederate vs Union

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Absolutely!

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, it's been our staple diet for the past 7 years.

5) How many players were in the game? 4 + the ref

This was the ACW battle of Nashville, about which I knew nothing, but apparently was the only truly decisive battle of the war, in which an entire Confederate army was pretty much destroyed. Our game managed to replicate that fairly faithfully, but the scenario presented enough challenging decisions for both sides and the victory conditions are well calibrated.

I don't usually post here about my regular BBB outings, but this was my first BBB game for a month and I really needed my fix! As a bonus, I didn't have to do anything except turn up and play: Crispin not only wrote the scenario, he provided armies and custom-built terrain. We had a great time.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Sunjester - ROF, Peter Pig RFCM yes?

Does it (like other games in their range) use the squared terrain movement system?

How much does slightly larger bases than 30x30 affect the game? My bases would be 40x40, three bases to a unit - two of pike, one of musket?

On Baroque -

Quote from: Nosher on 25 October 2016, 07:02:14 AM
I concur. Dragoons need downgrading shooting wise.

I'm starting to wonder the same tbh. Not sure about downgrading shooting (ie giving them a shooting mod), but perhaps knock VBU down to 4, which is sort of the "tipping point" where a couple of hits becomes likely to smash you in one bound...

Must trot over to the Impetus forums and see what others think!

Quote from: toxicpixie on 25 October 2016, 08:12:02 AM
On Baroque -

I'm starting to wonder the same tbh. Not sure about downgrading shooting (ie giving them a shooting mod), but perhaps knock VBU down to 4, which is sort of the "tipping point" where a couple of hits becomes likely to smash you in one bound...

Must trot over to the Impetus forums and see what others think!

Not been much in depth comment on it, but I think it's understood that they may be a bit good / under-priced. Similarly massed RE are a bit good / under-priced

In general there's not a lot of play experience being discussed, possibly due to the limited number of lists available. Whatever you opinion, tournaments produce the best performance commentary and I don't think there's been (M)any

You can comment on whether you think tercios are too manoeuvrable, whether gendarmes in 1560 should be heavier armoured and whether you think lancers should be able to use point blank shot just because they have a pistol though 

Can't see any comment at all on Dragoons, though I do remember some muttering about Massed Reiters (and I do have to say on the occasion you manage to get the caracole to work it is good, but it ain't easy with all those Discipline tests!) and Massed units in general (the melee bonus is far better than the drop to S speed and minor vulnerability to Artillery, I think).

Tournaments tend to produce "hot house" results, and probe the margins but they're not a substitute for reasoned play testing and discussion. Although they do show what creative people will be willing to cheese against holes you didn't even know were there!

Quote from: Chris Pringle on 25 October 2016, 07:52:53 AM
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Bloody Big Battles! (BBB)

2) What armies were confronted? - Confederate vs Union

3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Absolutely!

4) and... was the first time do you use the ruleset? - No, it's been our staple diet for the past 7 years.

5) How many players were in the game? 4 + the ref

This was the ACW battle of Nashville, about which I knew nothing, but apparently was the only truly decisive battle of the war, in which an entire Confederate army was pretty much destroyed. Our game managed to replicate that fairly faithfully, but the scenario presented enough challenging decisions for both sides and the victory conditions are well calibrated.

I don't usually post here about my regular BBB outings, but this was my first BBB game for a month and I really needed my fix! As a bonus, I didn't have to do anything except turn up and play: Crispin not only wrote the scenario, he provided armies and custom-built terrain. We had a great time.

Chris

Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

Looking forward to that one appearing in the scenario downloads. I'm very much a fan of the ACW Western Theatre which hasn't received that much coverage until relatively recently.

Quote from: Leman on 25 October 2016, 01:11:44 PM
Looking forward to that one appearing in the scenario downloads. I'm very much a fan of the ACW Western Theatre which hasn't received that much coverage until relatively recently.

Glad you like the sound of this. There'll be a short delay while we incorporate final tweaks from the latest playtest and do some editing and polishing. But I should be able to post it in the next week or two.

Chris

Quote from: Nosher on 25 October 2016, 07:54:25 AM
Sunjester - ROF, Peter Pig RFCM yes?

Does it (like other games in their range) use the squared terrain movement system?

How much does slightly larger bases than 30x30 affect the game? My bases would be 40x40, three bases to a unit - two of pike, one of musket?

No Nosher, it's not using the squared terrain system (which I'm not fond of myself).

We were using 30x30 bases but I don't think slightly larger bases would really have much effect on the game. But the units are of variable size, usually 3 to 5 bases on average.

Sounds like Sunjester is using the ROF first edition. The second edition does use squares. I really like Square Bashing, but have to admit to being rather disappointed with ROF second edition. Like Sunjester, I don't actually see anything wrong with the first edition and would much prefer that it had been  brought up to a more professional presentation, rather than having been scrapped and replaced with a completely different beast.

That's exactly the process original AK went thru, albeit with loads more discussion and lots of input from the Yahoo! Group, much play testing and revision. We all expected a "cleaned up" and refreshed rerelease and were very surprised at the totally new game that came out the door.

Sadly it didn't grip me or my groups at all, but others liked it!

I agree with toxicpixie on AK47, the latest edition is pants. AK47 was very popular at our club but as soon as we got a look at the new set we all stopped playing it, probably out of sheer bewilderment at how Peter Pig could get it so wrong! Recently people have started playing a few games again, using the old version of course.