Re: First time posting
Mike,
glad you got them, and I hope you enjoy your first game. As I've
said before this is the first set of rules I have produced, and I've
done all I can to ensure they make sense, but in some
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richardclarkerli
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First time posting
Thanks for your prompt sending of the rules. I have read through
them twice now and they look very interesting. We will be trying
them on Saturday.
By the way I saw you listed on Modmil
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mikenorton1ny
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#187
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Charlie Don't surf
My group would very much like to playtest ' Charlie Don't Surf'.
The title alone peaked their interest. :P Thanks for the offer.
-Steve
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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#186
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Re: first playtest game-very long post!
Steve
Listing of factors. The factors are only suggestions, I believe that
there are far too many unquantifiables to list them all, as such I
have probably not listed enough. Mea Culpa. I have,
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richardclarkerli
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Re: first playtest game-very long post!
Hi Richard,
The snapshot explaination makes sense. I think that the problem
arose since 'snapshot' was not listed in the '- factors'. When we
played we rationalized that snapshot was your
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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#184
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Scenario of the Month
Gentlemen
The Second in our Scenario of the Month Series has been posted this
morning, it's certainly a contrast to the small primer that I
suggested last month. For newcomers I would not
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richardclarkerli
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Re: first playtest game-very long post!
Steve
The bazooka would not get aimed as he moved first, infantry can have
an aimed shot, but if he nips out, pops off a quickie and then ducks
back (or attempts to!) then it's hardly marksmanship
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richardclarkerli
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Re: first playtest game-very long post!
Hi Richard, Thanks for your quick response.
Actually the Panther got the extra fire card because in fact we
didn't have a AT gun model for the game :P ,and I did figure it would
be a 'pillbox'
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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Re: first playtest game-very long post!
Steve
Did you get things right? Well, you had fun, so yes.
Don't worry about your yanks failing, you will certainly find that
the Brits you are painting will pull them out of the proverbial.
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richardclarkerli
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first playtest game-very long post!
First off, thanks to Richard Clarke and Nick Skinner for writing
IABSM which my group thoroughly enjoyed playing last Sunday.
We played on a 6'X4' table with 2 American platoons of 3 sections
of
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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#179
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Boccage crossing
Steve, one more point I've though of. The issue of giving German AT
strikes the rear armour factor for belly shots is absolutely fine,
however they won't automatically get this advantageous shot
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richardclarkerli
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Re: Thanks and more questions and Boccage!
Steve
Glad to be of help. If anyone queries anything just make up the
answer and tell them I said so;-)
Softskins have no armour factor. You still roll to hit, as per
normal, and then roll the
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richardclarkerli
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Thanks and more questions and Boccage!
Thanks Richard for your quick response! It's great to have the author
helping one along plus there's the satisfaction of quoting you during
the game..." that's not what he meant...is too!"[ I love
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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Re: questions before first game!
Panzerschrecks and bazookas.....more thoughts.
Having thought about it for a moment, I would suggest a good way to
play these weapons (and AT rifles) would be to say that they operated
as AT guns
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richardclarkerli
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Re: questions before first game!
Steve
Hopefully this sorts you out.
Question 1
Reserving Dice
Platoon Cards
When the card turned over is one of your Platoon Cards, the sections
within that unit may utilise some or all of their
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richardclarkerli
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#174
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questions before first game!
Hi Richard and the rest of the Too Fat Lardies group!
Sunday I'll be running my first game and last night ran thru the
rules with a couple other gamers. Overall they liked the initiative
dice
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combatcolours <combatcolours@...>
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#173
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Latest News
Greetings Lard Pickers
This month's "Scenario of the Month" is all ready to be posted, we're
playing the game next Tuesday so I guess we'll go on line on
Wednesday. What is more Sid is bringing
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richardclarkerli
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#172
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Photo page
Richard
I've just checked the links to the photo page, very funny. I've
shown it to a colleague who is keen on Patrick O'Brian and he found
it very amusing.
I hope much more of this will
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philips107s2003 <[email protected]>
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#171
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Support Weapon Cards
I've had an interesting question raised off list that I thought worth
reproducing here. Support Weapon cards, how many should there be?
When the rules were first written I envisaged one Support
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richardclarkerli
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#170
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Poor spelling
Naturally I meant "off list" not "of list"......
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richardclarkerli
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#169
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