Post by 54th Grumblies on Sept 14, 2020 16:51:15 GMT
Played another game with the toys using my gridded adaptation of The Men Who Would Be Kings. A lot of vicious firefights in the woods and slow advances which matches the historical fight it was based on (an part of the Austro-Prussian battle of Koniggratz in 1866).
portlandlittlewars.blogspot.com/2020/09/swiepwald-woods-or-something-like-it.html
Wanting to add a counter-fire mechanic (so that a unit that moves into range first is not disadvantaged), which made me look at Charge! again, which made me realize I could probably easily substitute TMWWBK's shooting/melee mechanics into Charge! easily (thus eliminating Charge's fractions of fractions stuff). The downside is that the whole pin/rally system would also have to junked, I think. Which would mean possibly adding some of Wells' surrender/prisoner-taking mechanics - something like, "if a unit charged is outnumbered by 2-to-1 or more, it will surrender." This would make it less risky to clear out units that have already taken heavy casualties. In a similar vein, units that are outnumbered 2-to-1 could not charge larger units. These would constitute a psuedo-rule for morale, as well. I've always thought Charge! was a really elegant system except for the fractions math thing for determining attack dice and casualties - I'd much rather refer to the "gridded Charge! adaptation" than the mouthful "gridded The Men who Would Be Kings adaptation"!
portlandlittlewars.blogspot.com/2020/09/swiepwald-woods-or-something-like-it.html
Wanting to add a counter-fire mechanic (so that a unit that moves into range first is not disadvantaged), which made me look at Charge! again, which made me realize I could probably easily substitute TMWWBK's shooting/melee mechanics into Charge! easily (thus eliminating Charge's fractions of fractions stuff). The downside is that the whole pin/rally system would also have to junked, I think. Which would mean possibly adding some of Wells' surrender/prisoner-taking mechanics - something like, "if a unit charged is outnumbered by 2-to-1 or more, it will surrender." This would make it less risky to clear out units that have already taken heavy casualties. In a similar vein, units that are outnumbered 2-to-1 could not charge larger units. These would constitute a psuedo-rule for morale, as well. I've always thought Charge! was a really elegant system except for the fractions math thing for determining attack dice and casualties - I'd much rather refer to the "gridded Charge! adaptation" than the mouthful "gridded The Men who Would Be Kings adaptation"!
