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Over on my other blog I've written quite few posts about editing wargame rules. The two key posts are:
One word on warning, to be legible the image above is probably best viewed full screen:
There are two reasons why you may wish to look at these posts. Firstly, you may be interested in how I go about editing rule sets. Secondly, you may wish to find out more about a smashing set of fast play ACW rules that are available as a free download.
My last post “A Campaign For The Balkans 1370 AD” has been well received and to a couple of people asking if I’d publish their campaign systems. One such request came from Peter Barrett of Canberra Games Society.
His system is based on Roman expansion in the 1st century BC but is equally applicable to any expanding empire, including mid 4th century BC Macedonia, the Byzantine Empire of Justinian I, the early days of the Arab Caliphate, the Seljuk Empire, the Mongol Empire or the Empire of Timur.
Last Sunday I was due to play in a one day, six player campaign devised by John Davies. Needless to say it didn’t happen.
A week before we had seven players and by the the time I turned up at the club we had three. Flu had accounted for two of the seven leaving us with an odd number and then a couple more dropped out.
The scenario and system is really rather elegant and applicable to more than just DBMM as you can see from John’s design:
