tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post2803630626303730189..comments2024-02-20T22:29:56.774-08:00Comments on Parum Pugna: Unity! Remember That Terrible Word...Some Thoughts on Command & ControlUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post-34412478782348513322012-06-05T03:17:00.900-07:002012-06-05T03:17:00.900-07:00As a result of gaming the Russian Civil War using ...As a result of gaming the Russian Civil War using Red Actions from The Perfect Captain I have become slightly addicted to Litko status markers. I wonder if there might not be some way of using these to get over the written rules conundrum (I have never liked them). Placing a token - Advance, stand etc - behind a unit, which could be changed instantly if a commander/ sub-commander is within range, but would take a turn to change if he was outside a certain distance and two to change if he was further away. I will write a post on this at some point...camsell59https://www.blogger.com/profile/08231364756472231436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post-6046250633726504632012-06-03T09:44:33.406-07:002012-06-03T09:44:33.406-07:00There are a couple of other things that occur to m...There are a couple of other things that occur to me. <br /><br />The first is that this is what sub-generals are for. Mind you this argues for multiple players or for old fashioned game-mission orders which I shy away from these days.<br /><br />The second is that the Persian cavalry seems to have been doing just this sort of thing the day and week before. <br /><br />Makes me wonder if perhaps the main Greek forces came up a little sooner than we think, and the Persians perhaps a little slower. Wouldn't make for nearly as interesting a scenario though so perhaps best ignored.<br /><br />-RossRoss Mac rmacfa@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04053555991679802013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post-48523596716844279412012-06-03T06:02:30.171-07:002012-06-03T06:02:30.171-07:00The absence of any supply effect is my main compla...The absence of any supply effect is my main complaint against WWII German fetishism. No factories, no fuel, no Tigers. For most tactical games, supply effects would only play a role in the set up of the game. Units would be understrength and morale would be adversely affected but the rest of the game would play out fairly normally. There are of course exceptions such as Isandlwana where ammunition supply was a known factor and those ancient battles where arrow retrieval and reuse or resupply played an important role.<br /><br />All of which to say, it may be simpler to build supply problems into the scenario rather than the rules.PatGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00379668269395518541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post-69747531731459819362012-06-03T04:54:47.007-07:002012-06-03T04:54:47.007-07:00Thanks Conrad. If I was given to using text speak ...Thanks Conrad. If I was given to using text speak I'd certainly have LOLed at this (and not in a David Cameron sense).camsell59https://www.blogger.com/profile/08231364756472231436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370412706281958677.post-31232715101453763512012-06-03T04:25:22.565-07:002012-06-03T04:25:22.565-07:00(36 inches to the Imperialists)
Thank you.
&quo...(36 inches to the Imperialists)<br /><br />Thank you. <br /><br />"Rules improve until they are unusable"<br /><br />Mrs Kinch ventured an opinion on that subject a few years ago when I was being particularly fat headed about a set of rules. She compared me to a girlfriend of hers, who had picked herself a great boyfriend. All that was needed to make him perfect was a new job and a haircut. Then after that maybe if he gave up smoking. <br /><br />And then there were some unsuitable friends of his that needed to go. <br /><br />But other than that, he was perfect - so long as he didn't sing. <br /><br />She left him eventually, apparently because he wasn't the man she'd loved in the beginning.Conrad Kinchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683395740934527502noreply@blogger.com