Collins Does Afghanistan 2013-2014
Looking for Rulesets...
So with the models all painted up, the terrain made its time to talk rulesets.
There are quite a few out there to choose from. Spectre, Force on Force, Skirmish Sangin etc. The first one that id heard of was Spectre, it struck me as more special forces type game and not a ‘standard infantry’ game. The next I found was Skirmish Sangin, which I played a number of games of and found quite interesting. Finally my friend kindly gave me a copy of Force on Force. im told its a cracking rule set but I haven’t read it fully or played a game yet so will reserve comment now.
I downloaded a copy of skirmish sangin and read through it a few times whilst on holiday.
D100 result system, interesting, different, very granular, the way RPGs blow shit up is fantastic but by god, what an awful book layout.
When reading through, perfect, no problems all seems to make sense. but when you play a game all of it suddenly finding the rule for the situation you’re in is impossible.
the contents page doesn’t seem to match the content, the titles and subtitles definitely don’t match what rules are near them. It’s a disaster of editing, almost like they forgot that you would want to refer to it when playing the game and want to have the rule/situation to hand/nailed within a minute of searching. The saving grace is the quick reference charts.
Please let me know if i’m not the only one that thinks this as everyone else has nothing but praise for the game/publisher…. I guess I must just be stupid
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