Something different

 

I had a sudden urge for a ‘bigger’ game, and of course me being me decided to have a go at writing my own ruleset for it.  I am, as you know, a solo gamer, and keep toying with ideas for a campaign system where you have a set force size for your army and must fight a series of battles where the results will then impact what troops you have for the next one.

I can of course layer that over other actual combat rules, but I also wanted to see if the simplified combat system from my Adventures series could be stretched to a unit based combat. So that’s what I’m up to on the table, as shown above.  More on this later I’m sure.


In the meantime the workbench still has terrain on it.  As you can see above the fences are complete, and below is the state of progress on the Barn and the Warehouse.



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