This caught my attention on the Two Fat Lardies web-site - a WW2 Battalion level set of rules in the making (see below, my thoughts are that the "battalion" is the natural "home of the infantry battle" centers in WW" - it is the soldiers "home" - you belong to a battalion, you are part of a Company and your mates are in your Platoon-Squad-Section, but all orbit around the battalion):
http://toofatlardies.co.uk/blog/?p=7958
It may also give me a home for the various 20mm pieces of kit I have acquired during my wargaming journey(see below, a Dicker Mac and a [unpainted] 75mm Infantry Gun from my WW2 German collection):
Another set of rules I should perhaps look at is: "I ain't been shot Mum" by the Two Fat Lardies, which I believe is Company Level in focus (though I do not speak from any expertise here). Which leaves me with a triple of rules [O-group(Battalion), I Ain't Been Shot Mum(Company), and Chain of Command(Platoon)] ;)
IABSM is aimed at company level, similar scale to PBI. If you like CoC then you'll probably like IABSM as the mechanisms are very similar. We tried a lot to like IABSM but didn't get on with it.
ReplyDeleteCheers Martin,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up!
The "only" trouble with WWII rule-sets it seems quite easy to spend £30-40 for a set of rules and supporting supplements "for an experiment" to see it it is any different from what you already have. (And I don't want a points based competition set). If three is not a group of like minded individuals the rules seem to languish on a shelf .. a promising set called Battlefront from teh same stable as F&F seems to have suffered that fate :(
I too am keeping an eye on O Group (BTW have you watched the videos?) in my search for interesting WW2 sets. Currently my preferred ones are Nuts! (Individual to platoon), Chain of Command (Platoon+), ISBSM (Company+), Great Battle of WW2 and Rommel. None are prefect but all give a good game and have the right feel. I am looking for another set at the Company+ level though as the card driven approach of IABSM can be a problem with multiple players though...
ReplyDeleteNot yet (watched the videos) but will do, thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteWill (99%) follow your recommendation re:IABSM
You seem to be on my wavelength re: Rules Al, :)
Whatever happened to Command Decision, Spearhead and Battlefront?
Is the Great Battles from the "Canadian Wargames Group"
Rommel .. I will have to look into that one!
(Not to be confused with Micro-Rommel?)
Spearhead is fine but has some issues - most as a result of the d6 base with modifiers ending up feeling a little too swingy.
ReplyDeleteGBoWW2 is indeed the CWG ruleset - not played it for ages unfortunately but enjoyed a lot when we did.
Rommel is the set from Sam Mustafa but won’t be for everyone not least because it uses squares. Little WarsTV (on YouTube) used it for a D-Day game albeit modified somewhat.
Agreed wrt Spearhead and I have seem people experimenting with d10s and merge Spearhead and Command Decision
ReplyDeleteGB0WW2 as oer all the Canadian Wargames Group Rules .. I like
I liked their For God king and Country ECW rules in particular
I will have to look at Rommel
Thanks for the tip again
Have a good (and safe) Xmas Al
I love Chain of Command dearly; but, some of the aspects of IABSM just didn’t work for me. Like the OP, I really wanted to like it.
ReplyDeleteI have purchased Dave Brown’s rulesets for both his Napoleonic (General d Armee) and ACW (Pickett’s Charge) games; and like them very much. From what I’ve seen from the runthrough videos, I believe O-Group will most likely scratch my itch for the next higher level WW2 game beyond CoC.
You can literally spend your whole life reading and collecting rule sets without actively playing them enough,
ReplyDeleteMy motto for 2021 is "get something simple and play the hell out of it"
;) Have fun
I want to scratch the O-Group itch too
I have been poking about looking at rules sets. O group is releasing along side victrix 1-144 WWII line. I got some German infantry and they are perhaps the best minis in this scale.
ReplyDeleteI’m thinking of playing company level with the “cross fire” rules set. It looks like something incredibly fresh even though it’s an older rules set. No rulers, no standard turns.