Chris Miller wrote:
>
> >You've got to be careful, some games (like Command Decision) are
> >"divisional" level where one tank model = a PLATOON of tanks. That
> seems >king of silly to me. As far as WWII games, Easy Eight puts out one
> >called "Battleground" and there is a board game called "Panzer" which
> is easily adapted to miniatures.
> >
> >I've been working on using EPIC for WWII fighting (grossly inaccurate
> as it will be), if anyone's interested I'll post what I got.
> >
> > -- Aaron Day
> >
> --------->Some? Most other mini games have a representation other than
> 1:1 (except naval games). Ancients are usually at least 5:1 or 10:1, a lot
> of more moderns do 1 mini = 1 platoon or squad. GW is unusual in this
> respect as all of their games are 1:1, even epic. If you had to have 1 mini on
> the table for every man in even a company level ww2 battle, it would get
> crowded real fast.
> I'll check out battleground. Is Panzer the old Yaquinto game? I
> used to have that...
As it happens, I have been working on a set of "generic" SF rules that
includes the GW universe, the DSII universe, the "Pointed eared science
officer and scottish engineer" universe, the BattleTech universe, Dr.
Who, Ogre/Bolo etc. that is 1 unit is 1 platoon based. Working title is
"Imperial Space", and yes, it will be on the web site when I feel it is
ready. This may be a while.
--
Sillyness is the last refuse of the doomed. P. Opus
http://www.spellbooksoftware.com
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Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 14:14:31 UTC