Sonmou has been, in my view, a good, old fashioned fun
campaign.? As everyone?already?knows, I have no bloody idea what
on earth I am doing in almost every game I play, and despite thinking up ways to
get round the law all day long and recalling arcane bits of case-law to support
my arguments in court, I have never yet been able to remember any part of any
set of rules I have ever read for more than a nano-second.? So it's been
great to know that I have not even had to pretend to bother learning any rules
at all in the campaign and have just been able to move the units according to a
map and using the Wehrmacht tactical notes which Aynsley dug out from the
website - with, some would say, the usual chaotic results!?
?
I guess that makes the campaign for me more of a Kriegspiel
experience, but as I can't stand wargames reading rules, that suits me
fine.? What I hate is when in DBM or whatever someone comes out with, "you
can't do that".? So much better to be told that "you tried to do that
but?there's a bridge down and HQ says you'll have to try something
else".? A cosmetic difference perhaps, but to a player in the campaign, it
really helped make the campaign come to life.
?
Sid
?
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Subject: [Toofatlardies] Re: Sonmou
Oh gosh, I'm all a'flutter thanks to you kind words Mr
Skinner.? Were
you not such a pillock they would have some
value.?
Seriously folks, "And this is me", as Mike Yarwood used
to say, I am
not sure that the Sonmou campaign is an issue for this list,
although
I cannot really say it ain't.? However, the rules that I
used for
running the campaign are already with Mr D Macfarlane Esq. in an
article headed "A Gloucestershire Blitzkrieg".? Actually the rules
have been great to use, for the players they look bloody complex and
all encompassing, for the umpire it's nowt more than four or five
pages of bullshit on A4.?
If anyone who is not part of the
play test group, but who has coughed
up for the rules wants the campaign
stuff then let me know, and I'll
email it to you (no charge,
naturally!).?
In relation to the other issue, ie est Aubergine in
this situation,
the Big Man issue is perfectly illustrated by your
comment.? In
reality he would be a John Wayne figure, and in fact he
is just
that.? This is the man who animates the troops around him;
this is
the Coq Sportif personified; this is (in his small way) an
hero!? To
me, that's what these rules are about.? And frankly
folks, if Fat Lad
can become a hero there's hope for us
all!
--- In Toofatlardies@..., "Lardy"
wrote:
> Richard,
>
> The
current IABSM campaign around Sonmou is drawing regretably to a
>
close. It's been an excellent mechanism to play and the rule
dynamics
> have worked really well on the table. Together, the campaign and
> tabletop rules have combined to provide what I feel (so far) to be
a
> very realistic simulation. Clearly, the efforts of Sgt
Aubergine
are
> also a key contribution.
>
> A
Campaign supplement to IABSM would be a good idea - do you plan
> such
a release?
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