Author Topic: T&T in Darkest Africa using small units (Read 40953 times)

DonVoss · « **on:** August 29, 2012, 10:46:15 AM »

Inspired by driscoles and his postings about small unit-gaming, I builded two forces for darkest africa.

First my belgians, pretty much as driscoles suggested them.
-heroe
-2 scouts
-4 man squad trained askaris
-2x3 man squads one raw askaris, one veteran+leader
-5 girl bagagge

And the salvers following Ibn Ibn Ali.

-heroe
-4 man squad with swords and a shotgun
-4 man squad with muskets
-3 man squad with rifle, musket
-5 camel bagagge

...and a small steamer.

I am really looking forward gaming these...

Cheers,
DV

Ramirez Noname · « **Reply #1 on:** August 29, 2012, 11:00:45 AM »

Looking good there

RMZ

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #2 on:** August 29, 2012, 11:04:17 AM »

That does look good

I'd be interested to see how they play.

cheers

James

Driscoles · « **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2012, 11:57:38 AM »

Excellent Don. Great looking miniatures and terrain.
See you at TST.

Cheers
Björn

James Morris · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2012, 09:14:45 PM »

Super models, some great painting. Who makes the hut?

Christian · « **Reply #5 on:** September 05, 2012, 10:41:40 AM »

Great work!! I'd also be interested to see how these small games play out.

Do you modify the rules at all? I imagine units would be suppressed out of existence in short order!

Plynkes · « **Reply #6 on:** September 05, 2012, 10:46:14 AM »

Not necessarily. If the units opposing them are also small then they won't be taking as many hits as they would in a game with big units.

Christian · « **Reply #7 on:** September 06, 2012, 04:38:56 AM »

Well put!

DonVoss · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:25:09 AM »

Little bit of Thread-Necromancing here...

We managed to play our first 2 games of T&T-small-units on friday.

I did not manage to scale a full AAR but shot a few pics.

We played first an 1 on 1 to get a feeling for the small-rules, and in the second game, we tried out a 3 players match.
Initial Setup.

Sorry for the blurry shots: the belgians.

And Native band, led by a white eccentric explorer.
Mainly Wargames factory minis.

The steam tramp station.
PlastCraft japanese buildings with some sing posts...

And my arab slavers. Lost two games, but had great fun...

More pics taken by a friend...

The rulkes worked really well.
We houseruled just the heroes (only 2 hp, never more than one attack) and the CC. Failing your moral test resulted jusst in an retreat.

Not that it helped my arabs...

So overall highly recommenden: try it out!
Excellent for painting up a sidetrack kind of warband and start gaming immediately...

Cheers,
Don

DonVoss · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:50:52 AM »

You can find a tut for building the gaming matt here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=68458.0#new

Cheers,
Don

Turbo-Ben · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2014, 10:52:25 AM »

Hey Don, looks great!

We already played a lot of games with very small units due to limited space and up to 6 players since I first read about your ideas here!
I also like your new mat, only the water could use a glossy finish!

To limit the heroes hitpoints and fighting abilities worked good as well in our games!

DonVoss · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2014, 11:11:49 AM »

Yeah, you are right about the gloss... ;(

Have to add it somehow...

DV

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2014, 12:49:08 PM »

Splendid looking stuff

cheers

James

Driscoles · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2014, 04:29:16 PM »

Looks great Don !
Cool gaming mat.

Makes sense to houserule the hero.

Ray Earle · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2014, 09:00:45 PM »

Looks great!!

Is there a link to the discussion on using smaller unit sizes? It looks very interesting and something I'd like to try out.

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