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Post by muddypaw on Nov 17, 2010 19:56:24 GMT -5
Been a little quiet of late as I've mostly been painting and assembling a decent urban terrain collection to go with my new board, but lately when I've found myself making lists I've found myself more and more going for purely historical detatchments.
I still love the weird or the wierd war, but I've begun wondering how well AWWWII plays as a historical skirmish game. I've seen it recommended on several forums when people ask for rules suggestions on mostly historical wargaming sites. I guess it takes away some of the fun of strange and unusual units but from the way the game plays I see no reason why it wouldn't work for weird war free gaming.
I'm getting ready for a series of games to test out a British Airborne Reccce platoon using another rules set, but knocking up a 2 detatchment list with much the same models I must say it looks like a damned fine list to play. 15 or so Airborne and a couple of jeeps, with some Dutch resistence for spice.
So, has anyone any experiences of using AEWWII without the first W?
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Post by abbysdad on Nov 17, 2010 22:43:45 GMT -5
Yes! It's one of my favorite ways to play it. I love the occult details in the game. I love the scitech stuff too. But playing a straight game is a lot of fun. The dogs and snipers really come into their own when you take away the weird. The campaign rules make more sense too. There is always a 1/3 chance of your best guy getting KIA if you let him constantly lead from the front. So in a real campaign you will be careful and not expose a hard bitten srgt unnecessarily.
One thing to add to this is that no cyber monkeys still leaves plenty of room for weird. Pulp fiction is a lot bigger than Nazi mystics.
Be sure to post what you do and if you recreate any historical conflicts.
Cheers,
Chris
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Post by varagon on Nov 17, 2010 23:21:07 GMT -5
You could play your historical list as a group of normal guys who have experienced all. So that when you have opponents play the weird, sci, or pulpy stuff, you've still got a background in place as to why you aren't running any of that "weird" stuff.
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Post by beermonkey on Nov 17, 2010 23:30:41 GMT -5
I've run a mundane list once or twice and it's perfectly viable. In fact I've done very well with a grizzled US Paratrooper Detachment. Sent "AGAIN" behind the lines to deal with the latest German monsters.
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Post by fattdex on Nov 18, 2010 0:02:31 GMT -5
Yep, I <3 british infantry detachments with no funny business.
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Post by CmdrKiley on Nov 18, 2010 15:48:00 GMT -5
Yep, some players in my group and I have played purely non-weird detachments and they hold their own against weird faction. That's one of the beauties of the AE-WWII system, you can customize the level of weirdness and it's still quite viable.
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Post by muddypaw on Nov 21, 2010 20:14:41 GMT -5
It's certainly an unsung asset of the rules system that it can be played 'straight' so to speak.
I wonder if a stripped down historical only set of the AE rules would ever be an option ? It might help widen the player base and lure in a few of the 'if it didn't happen, it shouldn't have rules' brigade.
Oh and as for my Germans, the initial detatchment will almost certainly be Experimental. I need a break from painting 'pure' WWII colour schemes before I go loopy ;D
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Post by abbysdad on Nov 21, 2010 21:58:51 GMT -5
Sounds like a request for a historical campaign ;D
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Post by muddypaw on Nov 24, 2010 19:57:29 GMT -5
Sounds like a request for a historical campaign ;D Definitely! I think it would work very well and be a nice change of pace. Maybe an Over the Wire devoted to 'straight' WW2? I've also been working on some Commando/SaS detatchments. Pretty easy to do using OS agents, counter cultists and upgraded veteran infantry. |
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Post by recon63 on Nov 25, 2010 2:58:12 GMT -5
Have you used the British airbourne? Have had a good deal of luck with them and a Lovat scout/sniper
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Post by muddypaw on Nov 26, 2010 11:19:19 GMT -5
British Airborne are the core of my foce, I love them  They are a very solid force. I have 2 Lovat snipers but have not yet used them both together. Mostly I use masses of Airborne with Bren support and officer heavy. Love vehicles too, mostly jeeps. It's nice to have the option to mix things up a little. |
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Post by recon63 on Nov 27, 2010 3:40:41 GMT -5
niice!! just had my british airbourne from scarab arrive, so no more proxi's. the mini's look very nice, if a little big
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