There have been quite a few interesting battle reports on the Portable Wargame Facebook page since my last blog post about other people' Portable Wargame battle reports.
Paul David Leeson has reported on two Napoleonic battles, the Retreat from Cofrentes ...
... and the action at Carpio.
JuanMa Ortiz has been fight an Ancients battle between the Romans and Egyptians using dominoes as the basis for his units ...
... and Mark Cordone has been showing how replacement figures for RISK can make admirable quick-to-make units for use with the rules.
He has even featured some of his painted RISK figures on the Facebook page.
Finally, Barry Carter has used some of his 'spare' French and Indian Wars WoFun figures (plus some Mexican figures that he just had to buy!) to fight a skirmish that resulted from a Comanche raid into Mexican territory.
Please note that the photographs featured above are © Paul David Leeson, JuanMa Ortiz, Mark Cordone, and Barry Carter.
What an enormous variety of treatments a single simple war games system has received!
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo,
DeleteWhat I love is the fact that people have made it their own. No ‘you can only do it this way’ constraints or codices that change every so often because it make more money for the publishers. It’s turned out to have developed a life of its own … and I could not have wished for anything better!
All the best,
Bob
I love many of the PWG kits your readers have clme up with because they're a refutation of the GW WH40K school of thought. A game needs to be functional before it is beautiful. PWG does not require hundred if not thousands of dollars and long hours of painting put into it. People assemble their set from what they have on hand and start having fun.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wrote this without reading any of the other comments. Maybe I should have! :D
Mr. Pavone,
DeleteI totally agree. Just as long as the people using the rules are having fun, who cares if they are using beautifully-painted figures, cardboard counters, Lego bricks, or whatever comes to hand.
All the best,
Bob
Bob,
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo and Mr Pavone are absolutely right to praise the flexibility of your PW rules which has enabled people to stage games in whatever manner is available or appeals to them without massive expenditure in time and effort, and to adapt them easily for different periods and levels. I think it is this flexibility that will ensure their survival and continued use after the currently 'fashionable' rules are forgotten.
Best wishes, Arthur
Arthur1815 (Arthur),
DeleteThank you for your ringing endorsement of the PW rules ‘stable’. If people enjoy using the rules for the foreseeable future, and continue to develop their own variants, I’ll be a very happy bunny!
All the best,
Bob
I emailed some photos across a few days ago, I think they might be in your junk….
ReplyDeleteThe Referee,
DeleteI’ve checked my spam and junk folders, but cannot find any trace of your email and photographs, Over the past week I have been experiencing a few problems with my email accounts, but I thought that I had sorted them out. Please could you send them to me again.
All the best,
Bob
Thanks Bob, I’ve just resent it.
DeleteThe Referee,
DeleteThank you. They have arrived safe and sound!
All the best,
Bob
I love the elegant simplicity of your rules. They also prove one can have an historical wargame, which produces historical results without endless special rules and tedious modifications for special cases. Your system is also easily tweeked to allow it to be used for just about anything anyone could possibly want to use.
ReplyDeleteI also love seeing what other people do with your rules. Thanks for a great game!
Mark Cordone,
DeleteThank you very much for your kind words … and for your tireless efforts to show others just what they can do with the basic rules.
All the best,
Bob