OK - playtesting a scenario for an upcoming convention and I had my first officer casualty - the CinC! Couple of questions: 1) Rolling for initiative. Say I...
I have arranged to play a FOB game on Thursday and although I have looked through the rule book I thought I would ask the esteemed members of this site for the...
... by 1). ... Just keep using the same leadership die size that you've been using. I figure that the 1 IP penalty accounts for this loss, plus the overall...
Brent, thanks for the assist on the CinC questions. I now have a question concerning artillery fall back. On page 33 (section 4.71) it says that "unlimbered...
... They follow the same procedure as other unit types - so in the instance of your example, they would go out of command. OOC is an accumulation of many...
Dave, My biggest (and only) complaint with FoB (or Piquet) is the time necessary to set up a game. Your work on this is fantastic. But for a novice, how do you...
Mike wrote: Dave, My biggest (and only) complaint with FoB (or Piquet) is the time necessary to set up a game. Your work on this is fantastic. But for a...
... ........... It must be me. Take a FPW game. 16 units or so per side. I need to list the units, roll for their quality, make some kind of counters for the...
Seems I've committed myself to running a mini-campaign over the holidays and I've decided to test out FoB in a campaign context. I've uploaded a file with my...
Once you get the mechanics down for creating an army, it goes very quickly. You just need to practice a little bit. I had the same problems with the original...
Very impressive! I like your ideas - they're very similar to how I ran our 1870 FPW campaign earlier this year. It looks like you're planning on keeping...
Been playing FOB recently and we have come up with the following questions :- When deciding if you have a even dice result , do you take the modified result or...
Tony 1. Even-ness/odd-ness is defined by the base die roll (clearly you can do this either way, but this has the advantage that you have the die roll on the...
Mike, Filling in the sheet is as simple as: 1) choose an army from the drop down list below "army" 2) input a name for a command group (i.e. 3rd Brigade) under...
Brent, I agree. The set up time for FoB is far simpler and less time-consuming than with regular Piquet. To make it even simpler, I have saved a separate...
Brent, Thank you for the compliments re: the rules. It's true, I have included no reinforcement rules (or I should say, I had them included then removed them)....
... Thank you for the compliments re: the rules. It's true, I have included no reinforcement rules (or I should say, I had them included then removed them). I...
I've been working on a new WW2 game over the last 6 months or so, and I'm to the point that I'm pretty happy with how it plays. I probably have 20% of the...
So - let me know! Interested in a new WW2 set or not? The game works fine for my group's games right now... Brent I had heard at Fall-In that there was to be a...
Brent, definitely interested, and willing to pay full price for it too ! Patrick V ... From: OmanBT@... I've been working on a new WW2 game over the last 6...
Hi Guys, Doen't look like my first email came through. Anyway the gist of it was... Count me in too! I'd willingly pay upwards of 20 quid (GBP) for a copy =) ...
... works fine for my group's games right now...if there isn't support for it as a new published game, I have plenty of other games I want to do (either for...
... I hope not ! I want to see LOTS of Infantry and Armour on the tabletop. Mainly because I like to play my WW2 battles in 6mm. Any chance of a multi-level...
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