![]() OHSW approaches these three areas differently: The number of units was small and force composition was randomized.Many were similar to Tabletop Battles and other classic scenario books, but they were clean and precise on what they wanted you to do. ![]() ![]() The scenarios were the main attraction.Basically it came down to rolling a D6 number of hits when combat occurred and when the number of hits on a unit totaled 15, the unit was removed from the table. Let me start by addressing three things that leapt out at me with OHW and compare them to OHSW. Keep it simple, keep it moving, make it fun. Basically it follows the mantra of stripping away the minutiae of detail that, in the author's opinion, doesn't lend to the decisiveness of the action. One-Hour Skirmish Wargames: Fast-Play Dice-less Rules for Small Actions from Napoleonics to Sci-Fi ( OHSW ) is a new book from Pen and Sword in the vein of Neil Thomas' One-Hour Wargames ( OHW), sort of. But no, although this is under the "One-Hour" brand, it is another author, John Lambshead, from the John's Toy Soldiers blog. RED vs BLUE (10) RED vs BLUE (10) Romans (1) Season's greetings (1) Sendoku (1) Sengoku (4) Seven Years' War (1) Stonewall in the Valley (14) Terrain (3) Terrain.If you saw the "One-Hour" title and thought "Neil Thomas has put out another one", well you thought like I did. (3) Operation Battleaxe (1) Operation Crusader (1) Operation Uranus (2) Operational Art (1) ORBATS (2) Panzer Marsch (3) Portable War Games (56) Portable War Games. (14) Hex Grids (20) HEXBLITZ (13) Highlanders (3) Imagi-Nations (94) In Darkest Aithiops (6) Jono's world (39) Logical Campaign (9) Long Live the Revolution (13) Lyndhurst Chronicles (1) Maps (2) Mediaeval (5) Megablitz (2) Memoir 44 (3) Moderns (1) Napoleonic (87) Naval (35) New Zealand Wars (1) NQM (3) OMOG - One Man One Gun (6) One-Hour Wargames. (3) General d'Armee (2) General remarks (29) Grid systems (104) Harad project. (5) Chasseur blog (1) Command Decision (3) Command Decision Moderns (6) Elchingen (2) Eyesight (1) Figures and models (34) First Blacklands War (29) Flags (2) Game systems (48) Gatonegro War of Independence (1) Gatonegro War of Independence. (2) Big Battles for Small Tables (20) BMC (1) Books (3) Bring and Buy (1) Byzantines (7) Campaigns (35) Campaigns. 'Lasalle' (1) 'Latin' Wars (7) 17th Century Wargames (4) 18th Century (11) 19th Century (36) 20 Questions (1) ACW (21) Age of Eagles (2) Ancients/Mediaeval (13) Army Men (13) AWI (1) Balkan Wars (28) Barry Taylor (7) Battlefield Accessories. ![]()
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