I may have appeared missing in action over the last few days... not so. I have been using every spare hour to set up, play and photograph small games for a series of pdfs I hope to release within the next 3-4 weeks. This has already involved nine x 90 minute games since Sunday last, with each of them having to be written up as a scenario, photographed and AAR completed. All are based on research I have undertaken from a gaming perspective for the period 1660-1700.
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A bit intense but super fun and I feel somewhat like a kid in a cake shop as, I have been trawling through boxes of figures which have not seen the tabletop for some years and giving them a good old run out.
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Playing the scenarios as I go has allowed me to make adjustments to orbats, troop ratings, terrain, scenario special conditions and the like meaning, when they transfer to someone else's tabletop, they'll work fine and be balanced.
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The scenarios are themed and linked. By that I mean, I have taken a campaign and used events or actual battles to join the games together in a chronological series.
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The other dimension to this is that the games combine the use of our rule systems - Beneath the Lily Banners and Donnybrook. All games can be played in 30 - 60 minutes and so, a pdf could provide some episodic bursts or an evenings entertainment.
I have also noted as I have developed these scenarios that many could be scaled up and once this series had gotten on its feet I will reprise a few around a 'go large theme'.
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What has been particularly rewarding has been that a couple of on paper, low potential for drama scenarios have turned out to be the best mostly due to command pratfalls, bad dice rolling or those other peculiarities of gaming which make the hobby so much fun.
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I wanted to try and get the canon to double figures before releasing these so that anyone interested in them gets the broad view and can see that it will be a developing line which is fun to use but has constant new material.
My plan is to make a taster scenario available free to anyone interested. It will be in the finished format which at the moment is running to 14 pages, 20+ photos, three scenarios and reference guide per pdf.