Five Core Company Command with my son (BATREP)

[blacksmith]

My son is ten years old and only knows about Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, and as I wanted him to play some WWII games with me I started to tell him about it. Then I thought that the best way to show him would be by watching films just like he did with SW & LOTR, and then I wondered what films could I watch with him.
I have saving private Ryan, Iron cross, a bridge over river Kwai, dirty dozen, etc, but none of those seemed me appropriate for him. Finally I chose Kelly's heroes and it was a success; he laughed a lot with Oddball, but also knew about artillery support and friendly fire (Mulligan's) as well as troop morale, and also that you need to be real close to kill a Tiger with a Sherman ;-)

Well, after the film we played a WWII game at company level. For this game I chose Five Core Company Command by Nordic Weasel because I think it is perfect to play with kids. All measures are done with a six inches stick, you only activate three or four stands per turn from an army of twelve or less stands, there are no tables or modifiers and you only need to look for ones or sixes on a D6 rolls, and still it allows you tactical decisions and gives some tension, all in less than two hours.


Full report at my blog: http://javieratwar.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/five-core-company-command-with-my-son.html

Cheers,

[Carnyx]

Kelly's Heroes is a great movie...  May have to check out the rules, can you play with more that 12 stands or is that the cap?

[blacksmith]

Kelly's Heroes is a great movie...  May have to check out the rules, can you play with more that 12 stands or is that the cap?

The ruleset states that 12 is the maximum, though the author answered me to the same question that some people played with more than 12 stands without any problem.
I think you can play with more than 12, but not with much more; maybe up to 16 or so.

Ps. I uploaded another BATREP of Company Command with my son: http://javieratwar.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/company-command-second-game.html

Cheers,

[Norm]

Thanks, I enjoyed both of those AAR's.

When you picked the forces in the second game, is that point based, totally made up or is it taken as a 'selection' from a list?

[blacksmith]

Thanks, I enjoyed both of those AAR's.

When you picked the forces in the second game, is that point based, totally made up or is it taken as a 'selection' from a list?

Totally made up, but it's really easy when you have to choose no more than 12 stands.
The game doesn't have points, but it has some lists to randomly generate forces.
You normally fight with 9-12 units which can be infantry, support like HMG or mortar, or vehicles, and can have up to 3 attachments in the form of extra leaders, snipers, anti-tank hunters, LMGs, etc.