Looking for opinions on Skirmish Sangin or "Fighting Season"?

[grant]

I have modern Canadians painted up, a platoon less the GPMG and Carl Gustav which Full Battle Rattle don't make yet, along with a pimped up Leopard IIA6 - waiting on Empress to make the LAV III Canadian to add that and I have my battlegroup.

Opinions on Skirmish Sangin for rules? The main rules, and the. Despatch No. 1 has the Canadians apparently.

Any others that stick out for this level of play?

[Lowtardog]

Sangin is a good set of rules, however it is really pitched at the small squad level perhaps stretch to 4 fire teams per side owing to the characterisation of the miniatures etc

There are larger, platoon level games in the works from the same manufacturer, a modern chain of command set has been sitting in the wongs for some time now but no release date

[grant]

Thanks.

What ever happened to the Fighting Season rules? They just seemed to disappear when SP2 came out.

[Lowtardog]

Thanks.

What ever happened to the Fighting Season rules? They just seemed to disappear when SP2 came out.

I gather Richard has had a lot of personal issues which have taken him away from developing games etc also last year I think there was an element of being a bit of a conscious around modern games, however I am still hoping.

This chap has a great review of modern sets on the market

http://hntdaab.co.uk/blog/page/2/

another set worth a look at is No End in sight, very much abstract so you wont see stats for differing types of weapons but a good set of skirmish rules and I have used them before for moderns,

[ChargeDog]

I wondered why I was getting a load of hits from Lead Adventure....

I wrote the comparison article - direct link to it is at http://hntdaab.co.uk/blog/2016/11/21/the-great-big-modern-wargaming-rules-comparison/

I'm a massive fan of Sangin - it's my go to game and I will never stop recommending it. The first playthrough will be slow but the sheer action you get from it makes it well worth the time.

Platoon+ and Fighting Season are still coming but if you want your entire platoon on the board right now, Spectre Operations supports games of that size. It's very fast and deadly.

[grant]

Cheers for that. I'll look at spectre. Sangin appealed because of the Canadians specific list in despatch 1. Its rare anyone acknowledges Canadians at all.

[grant]

Any other opinions on modern rules?

[axabrax]

Several years ago Fighting Season was imminent for a Salute release.  I actually spent a lot of money getting ready for the game,  and then it just disappeared as you say,  which was quite irksome.  The good news is that Sharp Practice 2 came out instead 😀

I am still very much hoping it will come out sometime soon as I love Chain of Command which it is based on.  We have decided to try out Spectre Operations as an alternative in the mean time which seems to be a nice mix of small special forces operations scalable to platoon ops with some rules for vehicles.   It also seems to take a toolkit approach,  which means you can write up just about anything you want using the basic rules without having to wait for the army lists to come out.  I picked up  Skirmish Sangin and felt like it was more like an RPG than a tabletop wargame in terms of the detail level. YMMV

[NurgleHH]

A never released "fighting season" is not so bad as a unsupported "BlackOps". Rules I do not know do not disappoint me, Black Ops on the other side is nice but really dead...

[Elk101]

I really like Black Ops though I get the impression a lot of the Osprey releases are Fire and Forget. I'd be well up for developing my Black Ops Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Imagi-nation setting as a sourcebook if Guy was up for it.

[racm32]

I use to really like Force on Force but then a guy posted on here a custom supplement for Bolt Action and I loved it!
http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.com

[jamesmanto]

A never released "fighting season" is not so bad as a unsupported "BlackOps". Rules I do not know do not disappoint me, Black Ops on the other side is nice but really dead...

What support do you need?
Just play the game.

[NurgleHH]

I really like Black Ops though I get the impression a lot of the Osprey releases are Fire and Forget. I'd be well up for developing my Black Ops Wargames Soldiers and Strategy Imagi-nation setting as a sourcebook if Guy was up for it.

Is he really existing? The answer after month in the bo fb group seems to be a bot....

[grant]

Is he really existing? The answer after month in the bo fb group seems to be a bot....

Guy Bowers is a robot?

[NurgleHH]

Guy Bowers is a robot?

The answer look like a robot. But it is like Elk101 said. Osprey is not really supporting the systems, only one is fav. In the moment it is Frostgrave. The minimum should be an errata, but even this is to much.