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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: rebelzippy on January 17, 2022, 10:08:09 AM
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Hi Everyone
I have put together a Chain of Command set of characteristics, weapons and army lists for the Mexican Revolution. These rules are ideal for fun and fast paced games - that include grand strategic decisions as well as the thrill of the swirl of action points on the table.
You can find the files here: https://www.novorasa.com/single-post/chain-of-command-mexican-revolution-army-lists (https://www.novorasa.com/single-post/chain-of-command-mexican-revolution-army-lists)
You can also see the first game using them here: https://www.novorasa.com/single-post/the-bank-at-cordoba (https://www.novorasa.com/single-post/the-bank-at-cordoba)
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Great stuff mate! I love seeing Chain of Command being used for more exotic locations.
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Cheers Grumps
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Rules for light aircraft added
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RebelZippy: this looks like an excellent use for CoC and the presentation of your lists/rules are great. I find CoC can work for a lot of settings and I now use the range of variants (Vietnam, SCW) to pick ideas/bits from to portray what I want to play - I’m intending to play VBCW with it as that’s quite straightforward and I will probably borrow your Air Support option as it would fit.
This is even more tempting with Peter Pig’s (https://peterpig.co.uk/11%20Mexican%20Revolution.html) new release of 15mm Mexican Revolution which are charming little models and a quickly growing range.
Thank you for posting, I don’t know much about the period but I’m going to scour your blog to educate myself better.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Lovely looking figures
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thanks Westbury - mix of all sorts of 25-28mm!
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Interesting! Out of curiosity where did you find the organisational structure for the Mexican Army? I’ve been looking for this myself.
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this article is quite useful:
https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/193696/azu_etd_10098_sip1_m.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Interesting piece on Villa’s División del Norte but I couldn’t find anything in it that dealt with small unit structure. Perhaps I missed something, which bit of it should I look at again?
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these are all worth a read:
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780312535049?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUMdPL-HUxQL71Pz7zkv26gcdQXEQ7Rgj0BgylQM2yfcURym2n6wFBxoCSrkQAvD_BwE
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302485424954?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=302485424954&targetid=1280016056819&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006886&poi=&campaignid=9441192132&mkgroupid=122313232443&rlsatarget=pla-1280016056819&abcId=578896&merchantid=118948919&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUGv8XHV-nn5m64FHcge2tQFHBGB1nz1lVxg4IdKtoq0YvDz3kZVWhRoCivwQAvD_BwE
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Mexican-Revolution-Adolfo-Gilly-Random-House/30291558682/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9780860917564USED-_-keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUAV_yYvngGGz6p3OUeQCsuPl2ZxHGrV2ux6DujHEgprzbGF6dqggVBoCZXsQAvD_BwE
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As general histories I’m sure they are all worthy. I was more interested in the specific source or sources for the organisational detail you provided. I’ve found that level of detail elusive to date , so if you have found a source I ‘d appreciate the tip.
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Hi Carlos
sure - its mostly through a long period of reading various sources and having an idea of what an average organisation might look like (which as you know in this conflict there was little consistency) - together with trying to transpose that 'impression' over to a manageable list that worked well with the Chain of Command Rules and dynamics. Historically accurate down to the last detail they might not be - but they give a good impression of general armies of this time and the ability to play that with the right period feel for this rule set.
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Ah!
Fair enuff.