I just had a look at the sample on wargames vault. Mr Faust, your forward (ha and you thought no one would read it! 
) should be the mantra of game design. I agree with everything you said regarding how a wargame should be. After reading that I understand exactly why you are up for the award of awards. In fact I am so impressed with your clarity of thought you just scored a sale.
May I be so bold as to ask a few quick questions. I pay by echeque which means I will have to wait 2 days for the money to go into paypal.
I take it the rules can handle PA gaming or low/mid tech sci fi or could do so at a pinch with a few house rules?
If I wanted to do something like trojan wars skirmishing with 'super hero' Heros ala the iliad. How would that work in your system? Chariots? Shield walls?
Would it be possible to do ahistorical matchups. For example something like amazon indians vs illegal loggers. One side has stone age weapons and the other modern firearms?
I realise lots of this may be well outside what you were designing for being a historical ruleset but I would love to be able to have a universal ruleset that handles all the sort of weird games i come up with.
Thanks for your kind words and your business Scurv! Let me tackle your questions one at a time.
It looks like your echeck went through. I just saw another sale notification from WV so I'm assuming that's yours.
The rules are great for PA gaming. I had suggested to Prof. Witcheimer that they would work beautifully for the LAF PA figs, but he was already underway with the SBH variant.
We have two current releases that are free which will give you more of the sci-fantasy PA type of game. First is the Sci-Fi Gear download from our website at
www.brinkofbattle.com and can be found in the Downloads tab.
The second component is the free Epic Heroes 'ashcan' pdf from Wargame Vault. That will give you a hint at some of the Traits and Gear we will have in the finished product releasing around June.
You can either play the PA stuff more realistically with the current main rules, or you can add the Sci-Fi & Fantasy bits to make it more akin to Gamma World, etc.
The Iliad stuff you want to run sounds more akin to using the Epic Heroes supplement. In the final version, players will first pick their Legend Level. This is the 'power' level, or gradient if you will indicating how High or Low the Fantasy elements are in your games. So, for Trojan Wars/Iliad type stuff, using the Heroic Legend would be perfect. That's the lowest 'level' and gives the Hyperborian, Greek Epic, 300 level of fiction/flavor without having Gandalf running around on the back of a Balrog.
As for a-historical matchups, you will find that the Gear costs are secretly balanced to allow for this, even though presented as a defined period type of ruleset. There will always be some 'fuzzy' areas between periods, so I decided to reflect some balance by having firearms and such cost a pinch more, even though they are priced primarily relative to their frequency of use in their specific period. When in doubt, reduce the price of the gear from previous periods to reflect their greater availability.
Chariots and such will have to wait until I'm happy with the mechanics I've sketched out for the Vehicles book. Shieldwalls are already reflected by the Shieldwall Trait. Though at first blush, you might not feel that it is the same as a group moving forward with their shields up, once the Turn has ended and your guys are snug in their position, it works out very well.
As to the last sentence in your post, I wrote this to establish myself in the Historical gamer community first to create a 'baseline' of what the Human soldier can do. From here, I can jump to the sci-fi and fantasy genres and build around the Playable Realism that I set up with the historical rules. So, yes, it will be able to handle whatever you can creatively throw at it!
Prof Witcheimer told me that if BoB gets enough popularity here on LAF, that we'll get a dedicated Child Board. Until that time, I've set up the "Official" BoB discussion thread for all manner of questions here
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=39468.0If you are on Facebook, you can friend 'Bob Faust' and I will add you to the group. We kick different ideas around and also show what we have going on for projects etc.
Finally, if you go to the Downloads section at
www.brinkofbattle.com you can download the Playsheet, Force Rosters, Gear and Trait Tables, and Sci-Fi Gear materials for free.
We're very glad to have you aboard!
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Bob
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