The Solo Wargaming Guide: Aftermath
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Remember when this used to be a miniature wargaming channel? It still is, we're just running through some out-of-scope intellectual exercises to flash forward through the "boring bits" before we get back to the good stuff. Today we count coup and calculate the butcher's bill for both sides of the Battle of Silcock Farm.
Oh, I love the illustration of the battle in the journal! That's a great idea.
That effectiveness table is the road to madness! Lol
Perhaps dysentery stalls or incapacitates the invaders? That would buy the invaded forces to regroup or to put the Self-Righteous City to the sword.
I had it with smallpox using these campaign rules! Stranger things have happened. I'm hoping for a miracle for the little guys...
As before, a pleasure to watch.
Great stuff. I like to see how you are working through these issues and using Tony Bath is a great choice.
Great stuff. I'd argue that when an army flees, they leave the guns on the field. After all, nobody fleeing spends the time to bring up the horses, hitch em up and run like hell. Nope, from what I've seen, they just leave the guns on the field and leg it. :-)
If ever there was a need for a spreadsheet!
I wonder if you would do better to move the map to a cork / pin board and use pins to denote the army groups? I've tried plastic covering (sticky back) and clear covers with water soluble pens but found the old pinboard the best. Just use good quality paper and have a spare copy or two of the maps as pinch points gets lot of holes around them 😁
Thought about that, but I'm trying to go full analog. You know...trying to get as close to Bath style as possible.
I was thinking about doing a small scale skirmish (1unit=1man) campain and something I've been thinking about is a modified command competency rating to give each soldier a kind of A.I. "personality" to govern how they fight. Kind of combining the ccr with a morale raiting. And adding a responce window in combat actions that could provide a way for braver units to act and less brave units to either hide/take cover or overcome and rise to the occasion etc.
You think that could work well in a solo play set-up?
That sounds like it would work. For my solo play, I need to work with percentages that way even a low grade soldier can surprise you sometimes. If you have not read them I would recommend Donald Featherstone`s books on solo wargaming and skirmish wargaming.
@@davidlee3311 thank you I will look for those
Have you considered using the Weather Board from Practical wargaming by C.F. Wesencraft?
I am not familiar with it. Will have to check it out. This chart is really temperate. Bad odds for weather effects even in the depths of winter.
@@TheJoyofWargaming I posted the relevant page on the 10mm wargames Facebook site
nice channel! sub.
I think that's a better system for calculating casualties and how they behave than the book version. Too fiddly for me. I hate maths ...