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Offline the fallen scholar

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What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« on: October 09, 2017, 08:27:03 PM »
Gentlemen;

What rules set do you use for VBCW?  Bolt Action?  Brigade 1938?  Gaslight?  Something else?

Regards

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Offline serran

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2017, 08:58:08 PM »
Chain of Command works well.

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Offline Kommando_J

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2017, 09:34:28 PM »
Does CoC have vbcw rules?

The legend of the old west ''add on'' is quite for for small scale skirmish.





Offline twrchtrwyth

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2017, 11:49:34 PM »
I will be using Triumph and Tragedy.
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Offline levied troop

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2017, 06:38:39 AM »
Triumph and Tragedy usually, the additional 'character' elements fit in with the period/scale. Have experimented with both Chain of Command and Mud & Blood without any problems.
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Offline Nord

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2017, 07:48:43 AM »
Played quite a few games round at a mate's house. Bolt Action gives a big game in a short session, easy(ish) rules allow the game to flow along nicely, random turn sequence keeps thing interesting.

For smaller scale games (about a dozen per side) we have used In Her Majesty's Name. It's simple enough, but a bit clunky and also IGUGO, which seems a bit pedestrian these days.

Offline Sunjester

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2017, 08:55:27 AM »
Depending of the level of the action:
Chain of Command
I Ain't Been Shot Mum
Blitzkrieg Commander II

Offline ichwillauch

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2017, 01:46:29 PM »
As mentioned above:
Chain of Command
Mud & Blood

I have tried
And was jerusalem builded here
A World aflame

but I am now using Brother against Brother an ACW rule set with morale cards, event cards and skeedaddling because it is a very fast game and very easy to learn for new players.
To fight a combined land-air-sea campaign I want to use Naval Thunder and Scramble!

Offline Eric the Shed

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2017, 01:51:11 PM »
We typically use Bolt Action for our big games and have been known to use Pulp Alley for smaller affairs

Offline Kommando_J

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2017, 03:03:34 PM »
To elaborate the LOTOW rules adaptation is in WS&S issues 52 and 53.

Five men could be good too, heard it used for Irish war of Independence skirmishes.

Offline AzSteven

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2017, 08:59:29 PM »
Bolt Action for the larger battles - for the more 'personal' stuff we have used 7TV and Legends of the Old West.  We have in the past used a heavily-modified Necromunda for both sizes of action, but the battles got bogged down quickly when there were more than 10 combatants on a side.

Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2017, 10:14:15 PM »
Went the Day Well were/are the rules of choice for the “Hereford Big Games”.

Doug

Offline leadboy

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2017, 09:53:27 AM »
Still are! "Went the Day Well" - in use at next Hereford Big Game this Saturday 4th November!

Offline Doug ex-em4

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2017, 06:32:37 PM »
Still are! "Went the Day Well" - in use at next Hereford Big Game this Saturday 4th November!

Glad to hear it and sorry I can't make it. But surely not this Saturday :o

Doug


Offline leadboy

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Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2017, 09:14:43 AM »
Not this Saturday. That Saturday, 4th November.

And we shall much miss Sir Gilbert and his Invincibles.

I'm off to make up a "Grammar and Best Usage" Supplement to the WTDW Rules... ;D

 

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