Last night, Steve Parker - the creator of the ‘Dominion of …’ rules - left a comment on my blog that contained the following news:
Next up is:
- Dominion of the Red and White (Russian Civil War) and
- Dominion of the Back of Beyond.
After that, maybe:
- Dominion of the Trenches - WW1 including Africa, Middle East, Italy.
I expect that these will turn out to be at least as popular as the previous books ... and may well be the most popular so far! (I will certainly be buying copies!)
Since I wrote this blog post, Steve Parker has been in contact with the following additional information:
Just a bit more detail then. The first book Dominion of the Red and White will be similar to my current books with 24 battles from the Russian Civil War, Baltic Wars of Independence and the Polish-Soviet War. There are a couple of amusing tweaks to the activation system and replacement of defeated units that hopefully model these chaotic battles better. Dominion of the Back of Beyond is of course set in the East during this period but set at a lower level with detailed descriptions of the different factions (18?). The lower level allows the different units to include Machine Guns, Tachankas, Armoured Cars, Chinese swordsmen etc. where in the bigger battles they are not really separate units.
Having read this, I am now absolutely certain that I will be buying both of these books!
I’m pretty sure lots of us are looking forward to these Dominion titles Bob. My finger is poised to click Buy It Now as soon as they’re ready.
ReplyDeleteThe Russian Civil War and Back of Beyond are rather different to, say, WW1 on the Western front. Distances are (relatively) vast and there are plenty of “characters” on all sides - although many of these seem to have been rather unsavoury.
I suspect it may not be very long before someone playing the Back of Beyond (BoB) rules includes Cordery Pasha for their pan-Turkish forces 😉
Cheers,
Geoff
Ps/ Just to clarify - I’m not suggesting you’re unsavoury Bob.
Elliesdad (Paul),
DeleteI think that this is going to give players lots of opportunity to build up lots of funny little armies made up from all sorts of odds and ends. For example, I seem to remember that one Polish unit went into action against the Red Army wearing Prussian Hussar dress uniforms.
All the best,
Bob
PS. I have often played unsavoury characters, especially during the Madasahatta Campaign ... and I was even featured on the late Rudi Geudens's 'Armies of Afriboria' (http://www.rudi-geudens.be/).