Reply To: Hobby Weekender 19/10/2018 – The Directors Cut Limited Edition Box Set

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Thanks, @evilstu .  🙂  Regarding the comparison between miniature and other gaming mediums … I find that, at least when it comes to historical games set in the “post-industrial era” (i.e., anything after black powder) … miniature wargaming just breaks down unless you stick with the very smallest of infantry skirmish games, smaller than Bolt Action, down to 10 men per side like Skirmish Sanguin, etc.   Unless your miniatures are so small that you might as well be using hex-counters or computers anyway.

It’s not a question of firepower, it’s a question of range and how the ranges involved realistically interrelate to the tactical movement speeds, expanse of terrain, etc.  People day miniature wargaming is “more immersive.”  Well, post 1900 historical, it really isn’t.  The game has to “lie” and abstract so much about the distances, speeds, spaces, ranges, areas of effect, how long it takes to cross given ground vs. how much firepower you’ll absorb in that time … that the tactics just don’t work and the game becomes, at least for many of us, highly “un-immersive.”

This negates much of the narrative benefit the game might provide, because suspension of disbelief just becomes too difficult.  Might as well be playing fantasy.

Anyway, small-scale infantry combat still works, historical periods from black powder and further back still work, sci-fi and fantasy are anyone’s ball game, and of course reasonable folks may differ.  Just my take on it.

Anyway, this game is now complete and I’ll be rolling out the rest of the  battle report over the next couple of days.  It was a real tight game, coming down almost (not quite) to the last roll.   I won’t spoil anything, but here’s hoping everyone likes it, especially the “Coleraine commanders” of the 36th Ulster.

I also have those Australian counters drawn up.  I might break them out next to text them out, perhaps replay a part of the July 1918, Battle of Hamel, or their part in in the final battles along Cambrai-St. Quentin Canal.