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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Toy soldiers & old school wargaming |
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Steve Rowland |
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Mar 29, 08 - 7:14 AM |
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Actually, on more serious note, before we all get too jolly batey with oneanother (although i suspect the brasso will remain in the tin), i was surprised how reasonably priced these are, even in metal, given that most 28mm figures nowadays command a price well in excess of a pound (and yes, i appreciate that the level of detail is not comparable). I suppose most of the start-up costs have long since been paid-off.
there's a couple of web groups dedicated to old school wargaming (and to keep it relevent, it would be just as appopriate to use plastic 1/72 scale figs for these, particularly the Airfix reissues from Hat).
To be honest, i reckon a lot of popular rulesets in use at the moment have a decidedly old school approach to their mechanics, for example revisionist sets like general de Briagade and Shako, whilst Rapid fire is hardly complicated; The mechanics for Warhammer, historical or fantasy, haven't changed since the first edition was released about 25 years ago.
I suppose its all a reaction partly against those DBM-style rules, which always seem a little souless to me (and Lord know, i've played DBM enough times) and against the overly complex WRG-type and Newbury-type rules, with their huge tables (Shock of impacts seem to have about 30 factors within the morale table alone), calculations of casualties per figure and moprale tests at every 5% casualties....
Hmmm, perhaps i've gone off on one again.....
cheers, Steve |
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