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.... So the suicide charge actually worked out quite well...
This really has been great fun to read and gob-smacking to look at. And yes, those Bicorne figures are the bees knees (must resist the urge to dig mine out from the lower basement).
A POX ON THE KING!
You've changed your tune (or is that your allegiance). Great as always Richard. Are you intending to give your thoughts on the rules at the end of the game?
Well I could. I suspect many people are already familiar with them, or with one or more of their Mersey-created ‘Rampant’ siblings. I think they all follow much the same system / mechanics, with some tweaks here and there for period specific flavour, and various minor changes as each set adapts improvements from the preceding editions. Overall I find them pleasingly straightforward, very well designed, very clearly set out and explained, and they seem to give a good game which ebbs and flows. Once you’ve stripped out the intro, scenarios, army lists, and description of the different unit types, leadership traits, and their respective capabilities, the actual rules mechanics (for how to play the game) take up all of a dozen pages. Which to me is a jolly good thing because I cannot abide over-complex, 100-page books of wargames rules.Taken at face value, some of the mechanics feel a bit weird at first glance (a unit reduced to one figure, still gets to roll six dice in shooting or attack, for instance), but the mechanics work well within the context of a game. You just have to get past one or two of these seeming oddities, and accept that the rules are designed to provide an enjoyable romp of a wargame, with a good dash of distinctive period flavour. They’re not meant to provide a serious historical simulation, unlike many other uber-heavyweight and po-faced ‘serious’ wargames rules.So I like them Strangely, I didn’t much like Lion Rampant the few times I played it, but this set seems to me to work much better. Perhaps that’s Michael Leck’s influence as co-author
You've changed your tune (or is that your allegiance).