Rules for French and Indian Wars?

[Galloping Major]

You never know 


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[H.M.Stanley]

In my limited experience of M&T …

I think TVG has a little more depth to it* but M&T is certainly very playable and possibly has a greater longevity with its inbuilt mechanism for objectives, traits/abilities, subplots, events and weather etc

I'll certainly be using both sets of rules in future

* i reserve the right to upgrade the depth of M&T IMHO after a few more games 

[Rich J]

Interesting as I think, while I like TVG, M&T has more depth for the period due to the fact you can go hidden and lots of factors affect spotting. Game mechanic wise maybe TVG is a little deeper with the way fire and reloading work. But to be honest we ran a few trials (i really liked the whole TVG firing system) and found it made little difference in the end but went smoother with M&T. I stress this is just my take.

If I want depth and more role play I use Long Rifle from 2Hour Wargames as the whole opposed roll task mechanism and in- sight test is something I have always loved.

Rich

[H.M.Stanley]

Long Rifle - i flatly refuse to look at a 3rd set of rules for FIW. Oh i use TSATF for FIW too. I flatly refuse to look at a 4th set ... 

Good to see that we both like and enjoy M&T and TVG   

[Lowtardog]

I enjoyed TVG, and have used it with some modifications for New France and Brazilian/Portuguese in the 16th Century as it has a great deal of similarlities with the FIW.

Would be interested to see the M&T rules to see if they can be adapted

[H.M.Stanley]

Foundry British Grenadiers and a Galloping Major Mohawk scout ..

I've started painting in batches of 4 or 5 x figs, especially when they're fiddly. I didn't enjoy painting the British Line Company (above somewhere) but didn't seem to mind the Grenadiers

Sorry for the shaky image [i thought it was my eyes at first!] [EDIT: now deleted]

I'll post another one or two







" ...let's do the timewarp aggaaaiiinnn .."

[Galloping Major]

Don't remember that from the period drill, but if you want to introduce it.... 

Nice work 


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[H.M.Stanley]

 

Thanks Lance.

I'm going to touch up the Mohawk , oo-err missus, and try my hand at beadwork

[H.M.Stanley]

A man has to know his limitations.



And painting beading is mine ..

Kudos to those of you who can. I'm just not steady enough a painter   

[H.M.Stanley]

Got in a couple of games of M&T over the wkd with GOK.

Our conclusion is that M&T is very playable and there's much to like about the game. However the book doesn't do itself any favours with the pigeon english*, poor layout [rules not where you expect to find them] & juvenile narrative which is irritating and occasionaly incorrect when explaining a particular rule. I expected better for the money TBH** for such a slim rulebook.

After a couple of games of M&T you'd be whizzing through the games without any real issues though.

It plays like a cross between S&TF [random cards/event cards], WAB [stats, hit/save] & Lardies [i'll have to take Mike's word for this as i've never played those rules]

We liked the card activation system, the objectives and sub-plots. Ohh and Hidden/Spotting

We'll go back to TVG for the core rules for our games but incorporate the card activation system [rather than simply IGOUGO], the Objectives and Sub-plots. Ohh and Hidden/Spotting possibly  

Anyone buying M&T, and doesn't have any other FIW rules, will probably enjoy playing them.

James

* Not a crititism of the author but it was supposed to have been checked by native english speakers, although it was a rush job i understand listening to the recent pod-cast

** by way of example i bought Chris Peers' Armies of Africa: Central Africa for less than i paid for M&T. A substantial, hardbound, beautifully illustrated, thoroughly researched piece of work. Apples and oranges perhaps but M&T is little better than a pamphlet for more money.

[GordonKhartoum]

"Got in a couple of games of M&T over the wkd with GOK." (H.M.S)

A quick photo of the table, with hopefully a few more to follow when I get some time to reduce the file size.



It was great to try out some new terrain tiles, new miniatures and a new rule set.

Overall I would agree with H.M.S and suggest that anyone new to M&T persevere with the rules and play out a couple of games at least. They do generate a good fun game. I would add that a better play sheet would be very useful.

GoK

 

[Barry S]

Great looking table 

[Rich J]

Cool looking table.
We have a far better play sheet in the yahoo group files.

[GordonKhartoum]

Cool looking table.
We have a far better play sheet in the yahoo group files.

I shall have to look that out - I was planning on writing my own so it could save me a job.

[GordonKhartoum]

Cool looking table.
We have a far better play sheet in the yahoo group files.

I'm now a fully fledged member of the M&T yahoo group.

To be honest I hate yahoo groups, finding them irritating to navigate around.

The QRS is useful so I shall be using that.

Might it be worth posting it here?