Taking a breather from some very intense games of "ASL" I got out some of my oldest toys and have been playing some "One Hour Skirmish Wargames".
A nice change of pace, "One Hour Skirmish Wargames" gets a recommendation from me!.
A view of my wargaming interests.
Taking a breather from some very intense games of "ASL" I got out some of my oldest toys and have been playing some "One Hour Skirmish Wargames".
A nice change of pace, "One Hour Skirmish Wargames" gets a recommendation from me!.
Another game of PANZER on the LHY maps...
Brits attacking a German held village.
I am a big fan of GMT's PANZER and recently got hold of the third expansion for PANZER which brings the British and US to the game.
Great stuff!.
Great, except for the maps. PANZER map hexes are too small for the vehicle counters being the same width at one inch, this means that the corners of the vehicles protrude into the next hex.
The PANZER maps are functional rather than artistic and that is OK with me but I don't like the hedgerow maps representing bocage, I don't like them at all!.
LHY on the left PANZER on the right.
Well I'm still battling away with me ECW toys. After many good games with "Furioso" rules I found the rule set I originally fancied on Ebay at a good price.
These rules are entitled "Baroque" and are published by Dadi&Piombo. I decided to half my unit size to suit the rules on my small table.
The rules play well with commands activating by initiative as the opposing units may react to the activating sides actions. It is all very to and fro.
There is a very good blogpost featuring Baroque here... link It is well worth a peep for anyone interested, I have found it very useful.
I discovered that I needed a couple of camps to be protected so I set to and made some today.
I've spent some time improving my terrain a bit too, I've invested in some new trees, painted my fields and had a right good time of it.