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Those buildings are looking great.

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Fantastic representation.  Looks like the real thing.

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Yeah, I have been following your exploits on FB.  Try not to injure yourself too much!

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I enjoyed it while it lasted.

You are not in a lonely place, we are all butterflies.

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That is one great looking burial system!  Brilliant.

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I actually never use it to roll dice for a game – I only use it for determining dice rolling probabilities.   I am always changing my own rules and so always need to work out the probabilities with the changes!

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I  use something, probably at least once a week since 2003, a program called SmallRoller .exe

I did a quick search, webpage is now 404 but still available at the Internet Archive for download (and it has screenshots to see if it the one you remember):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180822055457/http://www.fnordistan.com/smallroller.html

I love this program.

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@Thomaston. I actually did some 12×12 games but with only one base per square.  Different rules though.

https://shaun-wargaming-minis.blogspot.com/2019/01/ww2-6mm-gaming-on-24cmx24cm-gridded.html

Larger grids definitely allow for more manoeuvre and has a very different feel to the 3×4 games.  I started doing the 3×4 due as it was me trying to get an old collectable card game – Tank Commander – to work.  It also uses a 3×4 grid made up of cards.  I went minis and then changed the rules entirely!

@Andrew.  Yes, 20mm on 2’x2′ is a challenge.  I am going to start out with some scenarios that are all urban and see how it goes.  Not sure if it will look believable to me with more open terrain.  While I have been following the recent Portable wargames 3×3 rules  on various blogs, I had not seen those 54mm WW2 rules before and will be pouring over that post with interest today! Thanks.

 

@Dave. If you like Bob’s 3×3 rule I would possibly stick with them.  They are more attritional than mine , the latter more “bang and you are dead” 🙂

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I have a number of armies, mainly as the people I used to play with had one or none.  I have 20mm  German (early and late), European British, British Paras, European US, Russian (winter and summer).  But for my first 20 years or so of gaming I just had Germans, British and Russians, so 3.

Actually, thinking about it, I have much the same in 6mm!

Last year I acquired some 20mm Desert Australians and Italians so the number has gone up now.

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I am trying  to find what version of the rules it is in but fairly sure you can rally during Scurry or Firefight.  5MiN is not clear as it does not state if in Scurry or Firefight turn figures are activated or not. And only activated figures can rally.

The reason I remember reading it somewhere is that in the rules version I am trying to remember the options after rally states you could make it harder by not rallying in Scurry or Firefight turns.  For the life of me I cannot find which version!

Update: Just found it – 2nd edition of FiveCore Skirmish p9 has as an option:

Harsh rally: Figures do not roll to recover from Knock Down or Bailed status during Scurry and Fire Fight turns.

This implies rallying during Scurry/Firefight is the usual rule.

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i have Journal number 1.  I also have the LBBs and almost all of the Classic Traveller LLB adventures/supplements. CT was my introduction to SF RPGing.  While I did not play much Traveller, the times I did was mostly with MegaTraveller but without the Hard Times background.

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That  looks amazing!

I have Fear and Faith but not played it.  It reads like it would be a good ruleset  to play this  sort of thing.

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Hey Jack – I haven’t read the battle report yet.  You can look forward to  seeing the trash talk in the comments when I do 🙂  Without looking at the evidence I do not know if you really have played a game, hence no point bagging you out here!

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Hello Jack

After the couple of games of OHSW I did last year I had the same thought as you and wanted the armour rules to work the same as infantry.  I put something together similar to yours for armour but have not got around to playing it again.  My son is keenish to give them a go again, but times have not aligned.  Maybe I need to play a solo game, except I have other rules planned for that 🙂

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@Darkest Star Games – without looking I know I have every Traveller version except Mongoose 2nd edition (I have the 1st). So you may think you have a problem – I know I have a problem 🙂   I also hope by not being interested in 2nd edition I may have finally cracked the habit!

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I also only reroll the offending dice.

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My last copy of version 1 that are minor changes from 1.00 is 1.10.  From the design notes this is what was added to 1.09 to make it 1.10 (only two changes):

1.10 notes (March 7, 2016)
Tanks using the road movement bonus can’t fire that turn.
Infantry anti-tank attachments limited to 12” range now.

I also have a look at the next version I have (1.16 from August 1.16) and the turn sequence in now to roll 1 action die per platoon (compared to version 110 and lower that was 1 die for the entire side) and how it is described is different to previous versions.  There are also quite a few minor changes listed in the design notes.

The version I have after 1.16 is the People’s Edition, also labelled the 2nd edition and from December 2016.  It seems similar to 1.16.

Ruleset archaeology. Love it 🙂

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I leave them but it is not a closet of shame, more a wardrobe of potential.  Over the last five years I think there are three projects that had not seen the light of day for over 20 years that I got back to.  I have a few from 10 years ago bubbling away in the background awaiting a rise in motivation and hence priority.

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Hello Andrew,

 

To answer you question, yes please continue posting the battle reports, I am enjoying reading them.  There is enough pictures and narrative to make it a good read.

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For the mat search “Static Grass Mat” for online places to buy close to home.
Thanks. I have tried but not been very successful yet

The static grass mats I use are the ones designed for railway model layouts.  So search for railway model grass mats or static grass mat for model railway or similar.  I got mine from the local railway model shop.

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That is exciting news.  Well done for your daughter!

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I second  Mike’s recommendation.  I used to use a green cloth but now use the railway model static grass mats for almost all my gaming.  One day I am going to treat myself and buy an actual gaming mat.  I have only been saying this for 10 years 🙂

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I loved magweb.  It was only around for a few years but I used it a lot.  The blog post you link has the rules in THE NUGGET Issue 108 but that is not available electronically.

http://www.wargamedevelopments.org/nugget.htm

 

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I never have.  Takes too much time away from everything else!

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Thanks!  I was unsure how it would go as an early run with new rules but I could see how the historical result could occur with different dice rolls.  It covers only the main points of the battle – for example with each base being around 5000 warriors, I did not represent the Roman cavalry.

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Lol.  Know the feeling…  Not dice but trees:

But I can leave games set up for ages (and the main reason I continue to play 2’x2′) because I use one of these.  The drawer that is open I have just cleared the Sambre game. Other drawers have other things.

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Hello Andrew,

I have found it too hard to go back to IGOYGO and for my next game with the rules have gone back to individual activation, similar to your suggestion.  Individual activation follows a sequence similar to what you posted.  For WW2 games I use card activation with red and black indicating a side to activate a unit (similar result to drawing dice).  For ancients, I tend to work on right the left unit activation  for all of one side as it is just easier for my brain to process as I often stop mid turn to do something else and it may be days before I come back to the game and need to know where I was up to.  Easy to just mark one unit (I put the dice I am using next to it) and know where I am up to!

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Thanks Ian.  20mm is my favourite scale for WW2 gaming.  The PAK was a lucky shot.  The kill rings were already on the Tiger when I acquired it back in 1981.  I seem to remember the person I got it from did paint them on when the model did actually make a kill 🙂

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Great plan and good to see you are not getting stressed over the plans.  I do make gaming plans for the next few years but I think of them as more “stuff I may possibly try and do that I would forget about if I don’t write it down”.

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Thanks Axel – I see you are also doing small space battles with the post today/yesterday .

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Thanks Ian,  I have thoughts about creating varied 12″ terrain squares and using them for campaigns or whatever, but it never makes it high enough in the priority of gaming projects 🙂  I do look forward to seeing what you do with 12″ squares.

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Thanks Tony.  Blogging is a perfect way to document a gaming journey.  Although I am definitely not in the same class as the greats, I understand what you are getting at.  I continue to flitter and so expect more of the same for years yet 🙂

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Thanks for the kind words.  11 years ago I started playing on 2’x2′ with Ancient figures as 2’x2′ fit into some map drawers and I had no other space to leave things setup due to small children.  I fell in love with 2’x2′ gaming.  I then restarted WW2 gaming about 8-9 years ago but I only had 20mm so acquired some 6mm to play WW2 games.  It was only supposed to be a side project and so the terrain is basic and I wanted fast rules so I could get games in and done.  My 6mm WW2 gaming has grown organically since then 🙂

Just Jack convinced me to do campaigns a few years ago.  While I have not fell in love with them, they do add a great extra dimension to the battles.

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A thousand! More than enough.  At least it is keeping you busy.  You have so much other stuff going on as well, no wonder you are not sleeping (from your FB posts).

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Hello Mike,

I don’t use either.  I know of my local clubs and I don’t buy much stuff these days  When I did I would find it easier to to an internet search for reviews and recommendations.

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Excellent stuff, keep up the momentum!

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I was mostly happy with the two rulesets I was using for WW2 (Take Cover!!) and for ancients (Armati II) from 2000-2010.  But then I started playing other rules just to see how they worked and that led me to writing my own.  I have spent the last 10 years mostly tweaking my own rules through various solo playtests.  Having lots of fun so too busy to really look at playing a lot with other sets.  I think FTF I would still go back to Armati II, but for WW2 I do not know what I would use!

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It was a great combination.  The 20mm figures are back with me now so the next time he gets the urge to play it will be with the preferred scale.  While I have gradually moved to preferring co-op games, when I ask what he wants to to he prefers playing against me!

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You are active on facebook (congrats on the weight losing btw) so I know you are still doing stuff, just not gaming!

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Yay!  Congratulations!

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