Simple WW1 Sinai-Palestine Campaign

[Peter]

Beginning a simple, and solo, WW1 Sinai-Palestine campaign using 1/72 plastic figures and the odd scratch built vehicle and aircraft.

https://gridbasedwargaming.blogspot.com/2022/07/ww1-palestine-campaign-turn-2-game-1.html

The campaign games use a variation of One-Hour Wargame rules with activation tests.

[Tony S]

I enjoyed reading your report and look forward to more.  Lovely figures and terrain.  Good work on the photo of the plane – catching the shadow as they strafe the infantry was a nice touch.

Does anyone play OHW as written? 😉. Your modifications seem very sound, and as a fan of gaming friction, I rather like them.

 

[Jim Webster]

Tony S wrote:

I enjoyed reading your report and look forward to more. Lovely figures and terrain. Good work on the photo of the plane – catching the shadow as they strafe the infantry was a nice touch. Does anyone play OHW as written? . Your modifications seem very sound, and as a fan of gaming friction, I rather like them.

I have always suspected nobody plays any rules as written 🙂

But yes, interesting report and nice ideas

 

https://jimssfnovelsandwargamerules.wordpress.com/

[ian pillay]

Peter, thank you for sharing that AAR, lovely looking table and figures. I’ve just posted on the AMW io group for recommendations on basing for WW1/ machine age forces. I’ve got a bunch of Tumbling Dice WW1 coming from an eBay find. (western front) I like the ideas for aircraft sorties, might have to incorporate that In my games in the future.

Thanks for sharing.

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[Peter]

OHW rules provide such a clean starting point to add rule modifications.

[MartinR]

Play rules as written? What madness is this? Actually I do play the Machine Age rules as written, but not the others.

I added a load of extra troop types to the Ancients and I completely re wrote the WW2 ones to use battalions as the basic elements. A sort of mix of the Machine Age and Ancients set.

"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke

[Peter]

The campaign has progressed to turn 3 with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force attacks on the Gaza defensive line.

https://gridbasedwargaming.blogspot.com/2022/08/ww1-palestine-campaign-turn-3-game-1.html

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