Cornered Wolf (Chechen Wars)

[NKL Aerotom]

Greetings all, I’m working on a skirmish game for the Chechen Wars, aimed at 15mm / 20mm or 28mm miniatures.
I’m aiming at simplicity and chaos as the 2 main facets of the game. The game will be about 20 pages long.

I am pretty close to finishing and will hopefully release in the next week, so keep an eye out!

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[NKL Aerotom]

First draft is complete: 17 pages in total, absolutely no markers or tokens in the game, uncertain activation and randomly generated forces. Rules for infantry, vehicles, terrain, multi-level buildings, suppression and mission objectives / victory points.

Now its time to playtest!

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[NKL Aerotom]

Finished up some Russian infantry and vehicles, the infantry are from Eureka (15mm), and the vehicles are from Zvezda (1/100), except the BMPs which are QRF. Hopefully get a playtest in this sunday!

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[cmnash]

Hey Tom, I missed your previous posts on this – it looks very interesting, but I can’t start yet another period/project!

No – I can’t!!!

well … maybe just a small one! (wafer-thin perhaps?  )

)

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[NKL Aerotom]

Haha, just a wafer thin Chechen wars project…

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[Darkest Star Games]

I too had missed this.  I was recently reading about 2 of the conflicts and thought “geez, what a mess”.  Couldn’t imagine trying to game those meat-grinder urban fights.  But now that you’ve done rules….

 

It’ll be a while though before I can start to collect things for this.  Though I supposed it could be ported to sci-fi…. hmmm….

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

[NKL Aerotom]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

I was recently reading about 2 of the conflicts and thought “geez, what a mess”

That’s what I thought as well, so I decided “mess” should be a core element of the game -Randomly generated forces, uncertain activation, somewhat freeform deployment and random events should help make it so.

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[NKL Aerotom]

Cornered Wolf is now released!

http://www.wargamevault.com/product/238267/Cornered-Wolf-Chechen-Wars

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[cmnash]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

Though I supposed it could be ported to sci-fi…. hmmm….

That’s an interesting notion … I could get my penal troops onto the streets … and I got carried away and have too many MMG 15mm SF buildings so I can use them to create those streets …

 

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[NKL Aerotom]

Finished off some Chechens: 15mm from Eureka. Some green stuff Papakha’s added by me. BMP-2 is from GHQ.

 

Wolf Pack, RPG-7 and RPG-18 as well:

 

Support weapons; NSV, Mortar and AGS-17:

 

More wolf packs:

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[Catullus]

This looks interesting. I’ll pick up a copy at the end of the month. And your vehicles look suitably muddy!

Chekkit:
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[madman]

So what is the units size with these rules, single figures,fire teams or? Do you roll for each figure or as a team? Roughly what number of troops and vehicles make a game? The random “reinforcements” number about how many troops? Thank you.

[NKL Aerotom]

Hi Stephen, figures are based singularly, but generally operate in squads unless they’re heavy weapon teams or a lone sniper. Attacks are made from squad to squad, by rolling individually for each figure.

The numbers in the game depend on what kind of miniatures you have available – the forces are randomly generated, but if you don’t have the required miniature you just skip the result and draw again until you get a result that you have a miniature for. Our games had about 20 – 30 infantry on each side, and 5 or so vehicles on the Russian side.

Reinforcements are pretty uncommon – probably only ever 1 in a game, and not all that likely, but could number from 1 to 10 men or 1 to 3 vehicles.

Hope that helps!

Tom Jensen - http://ostfrontpublishing.com/

[madman]

Tom

Thanks, that is the kind of info I was seeking. Now to decide if I need another rules set. Of course!

[Darkest Star Games]

madman wrote:

Thanks, that is the kind of info I was seeking. Now to decide if I need another rules set. Of course!

  Yes, yes you do.  Never too many!

"I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

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