Combat Zone Battle Book rewrite

[Braxandur]

Hi All,

After being annoyed lots of times by the not to brilliant structure of the Combat Zone Battle Book, I did a rewrite of the thing. It's near completion, I just need to check for typos and maybe insert an index at the end.

I send an email to Doug (from EM4-miniatures) already to see if he is interested, but off course it is good to see if at least some people next to my regular gaming group are interested.

Anyhow, it's near completion and depending on if Doug allows me to freely distribute it, it will be available soon.

Next to projects are a "Scenario and force lists book" and a "new rules" book compiling most of the rules from the online chronicles in a handy format. Although I have it all already on paper, we need to playtest a lot of the written rules, since I'm afraid there might be some balance issues with some of the articles.

Anyhow, if anyone is interested, please let me know.

[Overlord]

Very interesting 

I've dabbled with changes and additions to the rules on and off, mainly for my Mad Max/Post Apoc games.

I would be interested to have a look.  Doug is a nice bloke so I wouldn't expect too many problems there, although he isnt the publisher nor copyright holder (as far as I am aware) so it my not be down to him.

[Lordblackwing]

Count me in, trying to get a group going here for either Combat Zone/Future Wars or some Zed bashing.

[Braxandur]

Well, Doug was interested and agreed that the battlebook could use an overhaul. He also said that he defenitly wanted to keep it as a free download. Which is great!

I'm stating my changes over here now, because if there is more that needs to be changed I'd like to do it before finalising the layout

So if there are any idead sbout what needs the be done, please let me know
For the moment I changed the following
1) There is a Table of Contents
2) I split up the rules and campaing sections
3) I removed the Force lists for a 2nd book in which the force lists and scenarios from the Combat Zone Chronicles will be collected
4) I added a rule for gaining Experience points (which strangly was missing) (2 EP if you win a battle and +1EP for every 5 man of the opposing force down at the end of the game)
5) I made a summarry sheet in the end with all point values and a summary sheet with the campaign rules
6) Since the rewrite was in the first instance meant for our own group, still some house rules are in there, these need to be removed (unless people generally see them as a good idea)

House Rules:

SMG    RoF    Dam    Point    Short    Long    Cost 3D6    2D6      3       20       70       8 Machine pistol: RoF    Dam    Point    Short    Long    Cost 4D6    2D6      3       15       40       6    (Bolt-Action)  Rifle: RoF    Dam    Point    Short    Long    Cost 1     3D6      3        25      80      6

Our other additions were Snipers and Solos
You can make a model a sniper for 15 pts, after that he is a unit on his own, does not generate initiative, has +1 to hit when shooting and +1 Toughness if in cover.

Solos are basically models that for 15 pts get all the rules that a Gang leader also has and also walk around alone.

[Argonor]

Another ruleset without a Table of Contents, eh...

I did the same with Future Wars some months ago 

[Braxandur]

Aaaah the famous future wars rules,

I really like getting new rules and spending a few days reading through them, getting the feeling and so on, but with Future wars I never managed to get any further than a few pages. The rules are soo bad layouted that I just couldn't manage to keep interested for long. And I really love moder/scif/pulp games.

I only got a (badly photocopied) hardcopy when I ordered it from Copplestone Casting, but an index would help a lot (a softcopy would help even more scine I'd then just relayout the entire thing )

would you mind posting/sending your index?

[Argonor]

Could you PM me about this evening? I'm at work(!) right now 

[Braxandur]

haha, same here... ideal location