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Reply To: Is the AWI best served with our current crop of rules?

May 23, 2021 at 8:21 pm #1648801

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I’ve tried Black Powder, Rebels and Patriots, and Muskets and Tomahawks. Haven’t liked any of them.

For skirmishes and frontier fighting I made my own rules.

For larger refights and hypothetical battles I’ve heavily modified the Kings of War 2nd edition rules and it worked really well for me. I like the morale system and combat system. I took some unit special rules and adapted them to be situational rules (ex: a special unit rule that boosts the impact of a melee charge for a given unit is instead applied when any line regiments launch bayonet charges against militia). I don’t use the point system which allows me to alter stats for different battles to reflect circumstances. Not perfect but it’s fun and feels oddly more realistic than black powder.