I'm
pleased to announce that in this, the 100th anniversary year of the start of
WW1, we are releasing Pat Wingfield's new rule set "Field of Battle WW1" in PDF
format. It is available for $19, payable to me directly via PayPal to brentoman@q.com .
The
rules cover 1914-1918. More details from Pat:
These
rules are written to allow the players to recreate Corps and higher level
battles of WWI. They use
battalions as the combat element,
brigades or regiments as the maneuver element and divisions as the command
level. While designed with 6mm figures in mind the rules will work well with any
size of figure. The ground scale is 1” to 100yds.
This
set of rules started life as an attempt to simply modify the Field of Battle
WWII rules to reflect conditions some 25 years earlier. However, the troop
density and the change in technology, military thought and tactics during WWI
means these rules have many differences to the WWII set, while retaining the
overall concept.
Innovations
in these rules include the use of battalions as the combat element in open field
operations but company level units within trenches. There are also simple but
effective pre-offensive bombardment rules that may make all the difference to
the success or failure of an assault.
Organization
Tables,
that are segregated by nationality and year of operation, are supplied for the
main protagonists.
There
are also a large number of examples and designers notes to help the players pick
up the rule mechanics.
The
rules are supplied as a pdf and the contents page and internal references are
all hyperlinked allowing easy rule reference finding. While the rules have been
produced so that they are convenient to use on a tablet computer they can also
be printed as a hard copy.
