Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Thoughts on Battlegames Issue 5
On The Shelves
I just got issue 5 (Nov/Dec 2006) of Battlegames. It’s a pretty good effort.
My favorite articles:
Jim Purky on an effort to redo Peter Gilder’s Sudan campaign game. I thought the most interesting part was the effort to recreate Gilder’s rules from hand-written playsheets, Wargames World articles and the Pony Wars rules.
In Snowballs at Brienne, Arthur Harman offers a set of rules for playing out the snowball fight from Abel Gance’s silent “Napoleon.” That film has a young Napoleon showing his early military skills as he leads the Junior Cadets against the Seniors in a battle for the snow fort. It looks like a lot of fun.
“TableTop Teaser: Trouble on Treasure Island,” a scenario adapted from from C.S. Grants Scenarios For Wargames. In the game, two skirmish forces are in competition to retrieve a treasure, while being opposed by a force of natives. The players have to follow a series of clues to find the treasure’s location on the tabletop.
The scenario seems infinitely adaptable, and I plan to use it in a couple of different periods.
And finally, an article by Ross Macfarlane on how he developed a scenario for the War of 1812.
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