... <snip> ... I think you may be missing the point a bit here. Melee does not necessarily mean crossing swords, it subsumes all the events which happen when...
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nemopholist
May 1, 2009 11:59 am
Dear Tolstoy As someone else noted "melee" unless you are dealing in the very small scale man to man combat of skirmish games, does not mean crossing swords,...
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Steve Burt
pyruse
May 1, 2009 12:48 pm
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM, nemopholist <sigurd@...> wrote: <snip> ... disordered by some means. So if knights in armor can't plow into a bunch of...
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nemopholist
May 1, 2009 5:13 pm
Dear List ... It's pure myth. Never happened, most of it, and that that did happen is hopeleslly romanticized. Unfortunately you are misreading the texts....
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tolstoy1807
May 3, 2009 2:58 am
Thanks for the reply. I'll check out Shako. I looked at them many years ago and wasn't impressed. I think we agree about what "melee" is in Napoleonic terms....
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tolstoy1807
May 3, 2009 2:59 am
I agree. And I defer to your horse knowledge....
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tolstoy1807
May 3, 2009 3:21 am
Granting you all that you have said is true, is it not also true that in the Napoleonic period, there were instances where cavalry charged cavalry, and the two...
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tolstoy1807
May 3, 2009 3:33 am
... A great idea! I like it very much. I would tweek it a little, having noted that I have heard of cavalry passing through infantry and cavalry, to say that...
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nemopholist
May 3, 2009 9:58 pm
Dear Tolstoy Yes, true-- the original primary source I cannot recall but it is quoted in John Keegan's "Face of Battle." in the chapter on Waterloo. Bear in...
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nemopholist
May 3, 2009 10:27 pm
-Dear Tolstoy When I used that system, and I abandoned it for other reasons not because it didn't work, it relied upon a sucession of tables. It was primarily...
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Bob Cordery
cordery_bob
Jun 9, 2009 8:38 pm
I have been working on some grid-based rules for fighting small battles from the late 19th and early 20th century battles. A copy of the first draft is...
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Bob Cordery
cordery_bob
Jun 10, 2009 6:32 pm
The PDF version is now available via my blog. Bob Cordery ... From: Bob Cordery To: grid_based_wargames@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:38 PM ...
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Mike
quidveritas
Jun 10, 2009 7:32 pm
Sorry for the 'spam'. Won't do it again. Watch Your Six! is a hex based WWI air game. check it out at: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/watch_your_six/ or...
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Mike Siggins
MSiggins
Jun 14, 2009 10:56 pm
Thanks Bob. I will have a read tonight....
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Bob Cordery
cordery_bob
Jun 16, 2009 7:42 am
I have now run the first play-test of these rules and have written a (long) blow-by-blow account of the battle on my blog at...
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Fabio Guerini Rocco
spoonriver2002
Jun 16, 2009 10:19 am
Interesting and exciting report indeed, Bob. It tastes of dust, gunpowder and sweat! I have to read it more carefully this evening. In the meantime, thanks. ...
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Fabio G. Farneti
tridentebologna
Jun 16, 2009 10:44 am
Two weeks ago has taken place the fourth edition of "Soldatini & Crescentine", in Bologna, Italy. You'll ask yourself why I'm writing this on the ML. Well,...
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Bob Cordery
cordery_bob
Jun 16, 2009 8:58 pm
Fabio, Very interesting to see so many grid-based games in play ... and so many different gridded terrain systems being used. I have noticed that this trend is...
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neil451218
Jun 17, 2009 5:34 pm
Thanks, very interesting and the pictures on the link are really inspirational :) Neil...
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Fabio G. Farneti
tridentebologna
Jun 18, 2009 3:57 pm
Bob, Neil, thanks for the compliments. I hope that next year can be great and more beautiful even more. But do you think that functionality of the game and...
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neil451218
Jun 19, 2009 3:59 pm
... I think using a grid allows you to improve both the look and the functionality. With a gridless battlefield units can be anywhere on the table, and...
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Fabio G. Farneti
tridentebologna
Jun 22, 2009 2:31 pm
Great Neil! Fabio G. Farneti _____ Da: grid_based_wargames@yahoogroups.com [mailto:grid_based_wargames@yahoogroups.com] Per conto di neil451218 Inviato:...
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Fabio G. Farneti
tridentebologna
Jun 22, 2009 2:32 pm
Since I started to create hexagon-based battlefields, and to use rules for area-based wargames, a lot of people approached me, sometimes with praise, sometimes...
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Steve Burt
pyruse
Jun 22, 2009 3:31 pm
The main complaint I've heard about gridded surfaces is "it feels like playing a board game". There is one specific objection to hexes, as opposed to squares,...
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Simon Miller
simonamiller
Jun 22, 2009 4:00 pm
I'd agree with Steve. With hexes, one can advance at an angle of 30 degrees to your front, so as to hit an enemy flank. Also rather than a friendly an en...
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neil451218
Jun 22, 2009 4:11 pm
The complaints all sound pretty familiar. I'll give my response to each one below. One point I would make first is that I think hexagons are better for some...
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nemopholist
Jun 22, 2009 7:12 pm
Dear List Ok, I'll bite. I've been playing gridded games (squares and hexes) for over 20 years (along with ungridded.) Most of these complaints are pure...
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nemopholist
Jun 22, 2009 7:20 pm
Dear Steve The answer is simple. make the Hexes bigger. In my OGABAS gam (Oh God Anything but a Six!" the hexes are about 7.5" on a side, 12" across. My...
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nemopholist
Jun 22, 2009 8:03 pm
dear Steve ... Why? The hex grid has NO distortion. But even in squares you are subverting your whole system. If combat and movement is by squares why not fire...
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Bob Cordery
cordery_bob
Jun 22, 2009 9:49 pm
Fabio, Here are my comments, * The movements in an area-based rule are predictable And 'Infantry move 12"' isn't predicable? * There is less motion: there's...
