While sort of still on topic has anyone played the Brigade 38 rules?

Quote from: Fenton on 25 February 2019, 01:27:20 PM
Yes my mistake I was thinking of their name after they had been in combat for the first time . That's my excuse anyway

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Quote from: Fenton on 25 February 2019, 01:27:20 PM
Yes my mistake I was thinking of their name after they had been in combat for the first time . That's my excuse anyway

AVBCW seems to work as a setting because no one seems to take it too seriously.

It's all very Dad's Army crossed with Wodehouse, Just William and the Famous Five, and probably a bit of Python thrown in ("What happened to Popular Front?" "He's sitting over there!"). There's a ready made pantomime villain - the BUF - as the comedy bad guys. It's all terribly "English", for want of a better word.

I've seen discussions on other forums about doing something similar in an American setting - they never end well.

A really enjoyable report, and great looking game. Very interested to know what brand and color green you used ot paint the Vickers MkIIs? I've got one to paint for my "Things to Come" army and am having trouble deciding on the right shade of green, and yours look very nice.

Terry

Sorry Terry, I painted those about 6/7 years ago and, as far as I remember, I just browsed my paint pots until I found one that looked right!

Quote from: mmcv on 25 February 2019, 12:52:28 PM
Agreed, there's something quite fun about that hodgepodge aspect of it and being able proxy in bits from all over. Flicking through Pendraken the Spanish Civil war range looks like it would have some good proxies too as well as the world wars.

That's right, most of my AVBCW are a mix of Pendraken's SCW, WW1 and WW2 Home Guard/Civilians (the upper class civilian pack is great). Part of the fun is coming up woth uniforms and finding figure to fit in.  One of the guys at Tring has painted up a bunch of WW1 British in caps as a unit of RAF apprentices from Halton for his Tring-based force.

Quote from: Raider4 on 25 February 2019, 04:48:44 PM
AVBCW seems to work as a setting because no one seems to take it too seriously.

Perhaps that's the secret to a good war game experience.  No silly gamesmanship of exploiting grey areas in rules.  Just a couple of mates indulging in a fictional scenario and enjoying the chance of the dice.  I have to confess I never really liked "serious" wargames".

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