Historical Games

Tuesday, April 1. 2008

More Skirmishing

FOLLOW UP TO RECON

A few posts ago I mentioned how I took the Combat Cards^© to a local miniatures convention -- RECON -- with the WWII skirmish stuff. The game was well received at the con, in fact was a bigger hit than I expected, and one of the comments I heard a lot was how nice the table looked. I promised to post a picture of the table in the near future, so here it is…

SKIRMISHING IN A NEW ERA

One of the guys who regularly plays WWII skirmish with us, Todd, has a collection of American Civil War 28mm miniatures that he was looking for a skirmish rule system for. The other day Todd and Mark decided to try the Combat Cards^©out for that time period.

While I don’t have many details of their game, I know the setting was a Confederate raid on a Union supply depot somewhere in New Mexico (there was a desert town terrain table available, so they put it to good use). After the game, both guys thought it went really well. They liked how the cards worked, and with a few modifications for the various period weapons, it went really smooth. Both said they would like to do more Civil War skirmish scenarios – maybe even a campaign or two of linked actions!