Wednesday 5 October 2016

Tank on Tank: Scenario 1 Head to Head

Here is the setup for the Tank on Tank game by Lock'n Load Publishing. I used ny Memoir'44 board and hex tiles to represent the map and mounted some scans of the counters. The rules and charts are also available on the web.

I think it looks pretty good. Wargaming on a budget - I can play a £25 game for free without sacrificing too much in production values or aesthetics. Could do with some roads but I don't have a fix for that yet.
 Achtung Panzer!
 

Tuesday 4 October 2016

Frederick's War: Battle of Mollwitz 1741

Here is a setup for my homemade version of Frederick's War, a game in the Hold the Line System made by Worthington Games. It depicts the first battle of Frederick the Great - Mollwitz, where his General Schwerin saved the day.


Being an owner of the original Hold the Line I can use the mapbaod and hex tiles from that set and mount some counter scans on card to represent the units. They look fine and give a satisfactory representation.
 

Sunday 2 October 2016

Space Assault: Marine Boarding Action

I've been designing a set of rules to simulate marine boarding actions and small scale skirmishes within complexes or space stations. I decided to modify the excellent Space Hulk Rules and combine an activation system and some additional refinements and action options using the base mechanics.
With my collection of Space Crusade figures I can pit squads against each other using the Space Hulk tiles and Space Crusade game boards. I've created a set of counters and Squad Summary Cards to track individual Marines so that it looks and feels like a unique Board Game.

I had a playtest and it was quite exciting providing some valuable learnings. I didn't have to modify much and I seem to have a nice balance between playability and complexity.
I plan to haul out my 15mm Traveller figures when I can find them in my garage and use them with these rules on my Snapshot deckplans.
Space Cat got into the act as usual!