I accompanied Mikey to a small game day in nearby Brantford last Saturday, Over the Top hosted by the Lords of the North game club. A dozen tables, maybe 60 people and a couple of dealers.
I wasn't running my game until after lunch so I prowled the hall checking out the games. A couple of guys with a very compact board did a hard sell on their game so I figured why not and got Keith and Barry to join me.
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The board is maybe 2x3 feet |
The game was 15mm, Soviet Airborne vs Mujahedin and used the Five Core rules from Nordic Weasel Press. Each of us ran a 5 figure section and a BMD IFV of Soviets. So a platoon in a tight urban area.
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Ready to assault the objective |
The game rattled along quite briskly and the game mechanics achieved battlefield friction, suppression and morale in very interesting ways with minimal dice rolling. I can see that after you memorise a few key things like how many dice each weapon uses, you wouldn't need to look anything up! I was quite impressed and am intrigued by the sound of the slightly bigger scoped No End in Sight, which says it will handle a platoon plus supports and emphasises the leaders and the stress of command.
The only drawback is that the rules are only in PDF format (available from Wargames Vault) and I find PDFs disappear into my hard drive or tablet to be forgotten!
Some other random pics from the show:
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Flint and Feather |
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Sharp Practice |
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Big Napoleonic action using Might of Arms and 1/72 scale plastic figures |
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Charlie Company Vietnam game |
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Big DBA! |
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ACW with Black Powder |
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Rapid Fire? |
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Call Sign 21 having another rough day at the office |
I used card activation this time which worked well. Still need to tweak it and think more on adding in a card for when other stuff like indirect fire or medevacs arrive. Since I was running the Taliban the Canadians did OK: two prisoners and no KIAs.
Order them than scan the pdf into an online printer n have the rules delivered 8)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post James. It was good to see you there at the event and you do a lot of great work for our community.
ReplyDeleteSome nice looking games there. Interesting to see the Soviet era Afghan game. Glad to hear your game went well - no surprise, you have a perfect convention game there.
ReplyDeleteWell the rules are still pretty pants. I'd like the action to get somewhere in the middle of the table. Instead of the Canadians only getting a foot or two in.
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