Reply To: Centennial Gaming in the Great War – Returns!

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Okay, @jamesevans140, @jemmy, @neves1789 – well … I have tried.  As promised, I really tried to set up a “trench digger” game of Valor & Victory 1918 Edition set up.  And actually, I did get it set up, and functionally this  game would work, but I think you can see from the photo that playing on this kind of set up really requires a custom board.

Actually these are all custom  boards (I almost never “buy” my wargames, to be honest) but they were drawn, printed, and mounted for “patrolling no man’s land, post-trench breakthrough” kind of scenarios like we see at Belleau Wood, Hundred Days, St. Mihel, etc.

This many counters just to set up the topography (and clearly I don’t have enough “Trench” counters, so I’d have to use “Sandbags” as proxies … yes, they both give the same +2 bonus so functionally would work, but this would be a pain in the ass to play on.

I’ll try to Photoshop draw a trench-themed map in the coming days.  Who knows, maybe while I have some time set aside and the Photoshop open, I’ll make up British / Australian counters while I’m at it.  😀