tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post7146269340265969678..comments2024-03-29T07:13:16.494-07:00Comments on Archduke Piccolo: First Marnon War - ConcludedArchduke Piccolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-56601680185352965442012-08-20T18:46:30.584-07:002012-08-20T18:46:30.584-07:00Hi Paul - Haven't heard from you for a while! ...Hi Paul - Haven't heard from you for a while! I'm around here most lunchtimes. Wouldn't mind a fat chewing session... Oh, and to check out these Prussians!<br />Cheers,<br />IonArchduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-45360552434915253902012-08-20T18:44:38.628-07:002012-08-20T18:44:38.628-07:00Cheers, Bob. I'll see what I can come up with...Cheers, Bob. I'll see what I can come up with. One thing: I preferred your Middle Earth map, and I'm planning on making one in similar style for the Nations of Ruberia and Azuria themselves, and leaving Marnon as some semi-tropical south sea island the two colonial powers are fighting over.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-10112803140505973842012-08-20T02:35:14.421-07:002012-08-20T02:35:14.421-07:00That looks like great fun Ion. I found a bag of th...That looks like great fun Ion. I found a bag of things (Prussians) I was going to give you, sorry I forgot about it so might drop it off one lunchtime if your about - will call to see first.Jackohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01156243437690752780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-27134499278764189602012-08-20T02:18:18.575-07:002012-08-20T02:18:18.575-07:00Wow!
It was great to see my simple ideas turned i...Wow!<br /><br />It was great to see my simple ideas turned into such an interesting game. The map board looks ideal, and the playing pieces are superb. I may well look out for a set of them myself if I can find them.<br /><br />I look forward to seeing any further developments.<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />BobRobert (Bob) Corderyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13109130990434792266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-82470944562550024632012-08-19T22:59:06.358-07:002012-08-19T22:59:06.358-07:00Sorry - 36 foot. I just can't count, lately!Sorry - 36 foot. I just can't count, lately!Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-6207041797672862202012-08-19T22:57:11.490-07:002012-08-19T22:57:11.490-07:00I based my rules on a set outline in the blogspot ...I based my rules on a set outline in the blogspot 'Wargames miscellany' (Bob Cordery) a little over a month ago. They are specific to map warfare. I would not use them for table top games. <br /><br />To determine what scores meant what, I didn't have the symbolic dice Mr Cordery had, which had a star, a grenade, tank, flag and two infantrymen on their faces. With these dice, infantry were four times more likely to be knocked over than were artillery of tanks. <br /><br />Using ordinary D6s, I worked on the US tac symbols for infantry cavalry and guns. Imagine the face of a die being a rectangle, and double diagonal lines represents infantry, a single diagonal line, cavalry, and a centrally placed dot represents artillery. I I made the 4 count and not the 2 so increase the vulnerability of infantry compared with cavalry.<br /><br />That artillery ahead of anything else is hard to justify, I guess (it's easier for WW2), and some thoughts have crossed my mind about this. But for now, let us just point out that each combat represents a battle - and could be expanded out to a table top action. That I call multi-token formations Army Corps is due (a) to their combination of all arms, and (b) to their representing quite large bodies of troops. <br /><br />The sort of table top game I'm thinking of, a rifle division will comprise 12 figures (3 brigade stands of 4), a Cavalry Division 9 figures (3 brigade stands of 3) and one or two guns. A standard Army Corps will comprise 48 foot, 9 horse and a gun or two, plus a leader stand.<br /><br />That is my thinking so far. But a final decision has yet to be made.<br />Cheers,<br />IonArchduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650770985225450559.post-74951211349041529932012-08-19T21:19:42.060-07:002012-08-19T21:19:42.060-07:00a very interesting war there. like I said in the l...a very interesting war there. like I said in the last post I might do something similar for Oronegro but on a day by day basis, the country is too small and the context requires quick action as seen in modern conflict. I like your rules but I did wonder about the game. you highlighted many of the points I wished to take up. However I did wonder how you decided that an artillary unit would be lost as oppossed to an infantry one as artillary is possitioned out of the way surely it is more dificult to wipe one of them out as opposed to a rifle company... and how to you wipe out the artillary and not any other divition?Daisy Gowan Ditchburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07476802587483833107noreply@blogger.com