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#Two hour wargames solo full#
#Two hour wargames solo free#

Each figure on the active side may now shoot, melee, recover from duck back, or leave the battle board.

Leaders now roll off against their Rep winner goes first, draws go to the side with advantage.

This is random the side with advantage begins the fight in cover, except at night when both sides are in cover. The core of the game is resolving firefights, so let’s look at the turn sequence for that. As usual, resolving a PEF might mean you encounter enemy forces, increase the chances of doing so later, or be a false alarm. I should also mention PEFs – Possible Enemy Forces – which in earlier editions wandered around the tabletop, but are now resolved one after the other with no manoeuvring to chase or avoid them. Each encounter type has special instructions that modify the basic rules.

#Two hour wargames solo full#

The full rules and setting books usually have over a dozen encounters, and campaign rules to tie them together into an ongoing story. There are three standard encounters provided confrontation, defend, and raid, with a quick method for determining who you are fighting and tables of pregenerated opponents.

#Two hour wargames solo free#

Sometimes the free demo rules from THW have rules for increasing or decreasing your Rep by experience, and sometimes they don’t.

The opposition ranges from two fewer than your band to two more. Your group can be no larger than your Rep, usually your Star and up to four Grunts. The full products have a wider range of Classes and a much wider range of Attributes. Grunts also typically have lower Reps, usually 3 or 4 but sometimes 5.Įach figure also has a Class (Citizen, Ganger, Mercenary, Military or Police) and an associated Attribute which affects how it plays in combat – police, for example, are always the last to leave the battle board. By default, this person starts with Rep 5 and three advantages over NPCs or ‘Grunts’: Star Power, which lets you soak damage Extraordinary Effort, which lets you roll an extra die once per encounter and Free Will, which lets you decide whether you and your companions will disengage from combat – Grunts without a Star to lead them are at the mercy of the dice. (THW games divided some years ago into those aimed at roleplayers, and those intended for skirmish wargamers so it’s possible that the skirmish wargames ones have retained movement and tactics, but I haven’t investigated that.) CharactersĪs the player, you control one ‘Star’, which most games would call a Player Character. Overall, the game is faster, simpler, easier to learn – but less tactically rich. Third, shooting is now a simple check against the figure’s Rep, rather than the previous 1d6 + Rep + tactical modifiers. Second, the various tables for In Sight, Man Down and other reactions have been collapsed into a single Will to Fight table. This means the turn sequence has also been rewritten. Like other recent THW products, these are no longer focused on figures moving across a 4′ x 4′ table, but are abstracted onto an 8″ x 10″ area called a battle board. The THW game engine was remarkably stable over a decade or more, but now some major changes are being introduced.įirst, the movement rules. The 2018 version includes the battle board and counters from 5150 No Limits Maiden Voyage so you can start playing as soon as you have printed and cut out the counters. Its purpose is to let you try out the core rules before you buy one of the more elaborate games with some setting and campaign rules.Īs usual for THW, the format is very basic two-column black on white text with the odd illustration and a colour cover. In a Nutshell: The latest iteration of the core ruleset from Two Hour Wargames, 21 page PDF, free to download. It looks like 2019 is going to be a year of solitaire play, with short sessions snatched between discharging other responsibilities that usually turns me back towards the Two Hour Wargames stable, as those products are fast, easy to use, and focused on telling a story about your solo hero and his companions.