Shadow of the Eagles test game AAR - Combat of Hasenpfeffer

[vtsaogames]

An introductory game was played last night amid wild weather. Details are here https://corlearshookfencibles.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-combat-of-hasenpfeffer-1813-shadow.html


 

[forrester]

I've just bought these rules as a direct consequence of the article in Wargames Illustrated. I'm hoping to digest them while off next week.
They seem to have mechanisms my brain can assimilate, and are a good way of getting me into assembling "proper armies" again.
Lovely pictures too.

[Harry Faversham]

Having read the same article in WI magazine I'm kind of getting drawn in, but thirty quid for a book about how to play with toy sowjers, seems a tad steep?

[olicana]

Unless you did some photos for it (I think I did 20 or so) when you get it freeeeeeee!!!!!!

It's a nice set of conventional gaming rules, well put together. Book quality, binding, etc. is excellent. Some of the photos, are stunning

[Harry Faversham]

Unless you did some photos for it (I think I did 20 or so) when you get it freeeeeeee!!!!!!
Some of the photos, are stunning

I hate you...

 

[vtsaogames]

The hard cover book also has some very fine paintings by Chris Collingwood and others. It's a handsomely produced book and good rules. I've purchased other coffee table rule books at this price or higher with rules I don't play more than once.

We pay plenty for toy soldiers, painting guides, paint, historical research but balk when it comes to paying a comparative pittance for the rules we will use. I do it too.

[Harry Faversham]

We pay plenty for toy soldiers, painting guides, paint, historical research but balk when it comes to paying a comparative pittance for the rules we will use. I do it too.

It's daft innit, to be fair.
Thing is though, I've shelves full of wargames books/rules, the actual playing 'rules' from all of 'em put together would probably cover just half a dozen sheets of A4.