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Title: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: the fallen scholar on October 09, 2017, 09:27:03 PM: Gentlemen;

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

Regards

Fallen Scholar
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: serran on October 09, 2017, 09:58:08 PM: Chain of Command works well.

Roderick
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Kommando_J on October 09, 2017, 10:34:28 PM: Does CoC have vbcw rules?

The legend of the old west ''add on'' is quite for for small scale skirmish.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: twrchtrwyth on October 10, 2017, 12:49:34 AM: I will be using Triumph and Tragedy.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: levied troop on October 10, 2017, 07:38:39 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.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Nord on October 10, 2017, 08:48:43 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.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Sunjester on October 10, 2017, 09:55:27 AM: Depending of the level of the action:
Chain of Command
I Ain't Been Shot Mum
Blitzkrieg Commander II
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: ichwillauch on October 10, 2017, 02:46:29 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!
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Eric the Shed on October 10, 2017, 02:51:11 PM: We typically use Bolt Action for our big games and have been known to use Pulp Alley for smaller affairs
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Kommando_J on October 10, 2017, 04:03:34 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.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: AzSteven on October 10, 2017, 09:59:29 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.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on October 10, 2017, 11:14:15 PM: Went the Day Well were/are the rules of choice for the “Hereford Big Games”.

Doug
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: leadboy on October 11, 2017, 10:53:27 AM: Still are! "Went the Day Well" - in use at next Hereford Big Game this Saturday 4th November!
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on October 11, 2017, 07:32:37 PM: Quote from: leadboy on October 11, 2017, 10:53:27 AM
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
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: leadboy on October 12, 2017, 10:14:43 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
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on October 12, 2017, 08:56:25 PM: Quote from: leadboy on October 12, 2017, 10:14:43 AM

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

Undoubtedly a considerably overdue addition - get to it...! lol

Doug
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: flatpack on October 26, 2017, 03:23:37 PM: We use A World Aflame from Osprey.
They play well, and we always have good fun with them.
We’ll be using them Saturday in our next VBCW game.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: has.been on October 26, 2017, 08:10:54 PM: You beat me to it Flatpack. See you Saturday, and I look forward to seeing (various & no doubt contradictory) reports later.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on October 26, 2017, 09:05:43 PM: Bolt Action 2.
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: dexey on November 03, 2017, 09:24:39 AM: Excuse me asking but after three years I still find myself very new to all this but would Neil Thomas' 1 Hour Wargames 'Machine Age' rules work for VCBW?
I am currently using them for a solo, fictional NW Frontier setting and like the ease of play and small table but would like to port some of my units to a different setting.
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Post by: The Gray Ghost on November 03, 2017, 11:39:04 PM: I like Empress Miniatures 'And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?'
Title: Re: What rules set do you use for VBCW?
Post by: Rob_bresnen on November 05, 2017, 08:06:43 PM: I have used Bolt Action, very successfully, and Went the Day Well. I like Bolt Action for a one-on-one platoon level game, while Went The DAy Well suits big multiplayer games. We have also tried Brigadier 38...but I didn't like that much.