New to Rapid Fire!!!???

[forrester]

The rules continue to have many followers, and I think some [and that would include me if I ever got round to actually playing] just treat "battalions" as 1 to 1 platoons..I don't think there's any real difference in play, its just a different perception.
I tend to feel there should be some way of depicting the role of section LMGs but that's me wanting to turn the rules into something never intended.
Its a very well supported set with lots of scenarios , with constant additions.
Looks like a good way of getting your toys on the table including supports that otherwise wouldn't be around in a small skirmish.

[robh]

......... just treat "battalions" as 1 to 1 platoons..I don't think there's any real difference in play, its just a different perception.........

That is exactly what we found with Rapid Fire v1, the Grimsby wargame club rules RF was based on and the original rules the club rules were based on (I still have a set somewhere). If you treat a tank as a tank and a soldier as a soldier without worrying about unit organisation or force command structures it gives a great game.

But at heart it is a "game". Taken as such it works really well and as already stated the scenario/campaign books are excellent resources.

[Harry Faversham]

It is, as are all our wargaming endevours, a mere 'game'.
That's why RF2 has still got some endearingly daft 'old skool' bits surviving. Road and cross country movement bring nightmare flashbacks to Bruce Quarrie's demented 'national characteristics'!
House rule number one, before a shot's been fired, you get a road speed/move that's simply halved when you go cross country.

[bluewillow]

I use the rules from skirmish through to battalion level, they easily bathtub and give a pretty good representation of ww2 combat, simple and effective

Cheers
Matt