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While not a solo wargame, “You: The Solo RPG Game” is an interesting single-player project unlike any role-playing game I’ve seen. Here are some thoughts about this innovative and engaging role-playing experience that sets itself apart from traditional RPGs. The game revolves around personal growth, self-reflection, and the exploration of everyday life rather than venturing into fantasy realms and battling mythical creatures.

The rules are well-structured and clearly written, ensuring ease of understanding for players. The inclusion of bullet points and numbered sections helps organize the information effectively, making it easy to follow along. Unlike games like Starsworn, that are unnecessarily complex, “You” isn’t complicated and it’s very beginner friendly, with advanced “classic” solo RPG mode optional rules.

Anime-style artwork works well somehow and adds a certain charm to the game, infusing it with a captivating aesthetic that enhances the overall experience. Character designs are expressive which gives it rather captivating atmosphere. It‘s kind of nostalgic, whimsy and playful and certainly a well-needed rest from grimdark and often simply bad OSR-style oldschool artwork often seen in solo rpgs. Anime art with its optimistic appeal just suits this game. The book is around 160 pages long and full-color with soft cover.

The game mechanics are simple yet effective. The use of traits to represent different aspects of the player character’s life, such as satisfaction, relationships, assets, and prestige, provides a comprehensive framework for character development. The concept of gaining experience points through quests and using them to acquire strengths or remove weaknesses adds depth and progression to the gameplay.

Character sheet

Quests: A motivational tool for you

While developing your character results in getting a score at the end of a game session, it’s much more than a “beat your own score” type of game. It’s more of a motivational tool, with quests to complete in real life (by you, not in a game) and some helpful advice backed by psychological research. While the author uses a plethora of scientific terms like “Maslow’s pyramid” or “delayed gratification” everything is explained in rather straightforward terms. This makes the game an accessible introduction of psychology.

Quests to do range from sometimes very simple, like “just go outside,” to more complex but always wholesome, like learn new things or cooking something you haven’t tried before. The game sets a very optimistic tone, and doing quests can be rewarding.

The beauty of this game lies in its ability to provide guidance and support, offering helpful advice based on research and proven techniques. Each quest is carefully designed to align with your aspirations and facilitate personal growth. By engaging in these quests, you’ll not only expand your knowledge and skills but also cultivate a sense of self-awareness and purpose.

The game creates an environment that celebrates progress and personal achievements. With each completed quest, you’ll experience a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction, fueling your motivation to tackle the next challenge. The rewards earned through these quests are not merely virtual tokens or accolades but a genuine sense of accomplishment and growth.

In a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming or monotonous, this game serves as a beacon of positivity and inspiration. It sometimes encourages you to step outside of your comfort zone, learn new things, and connect with others on a deeper level. Friendships, self-development, making money and even little things like joy of making your own food are all part of this unusual game.

Quest example

You will be rolling on table like this, creating your character and story

Optional classic solo mode

The optional classic solo role-playing game mode is a noteworthy addition, allowing players to delve deeper into their characters and further explore their motivations and emotions. The suggestion to write stories, keep diaries, or even start a blog as a form of self-expression adds an extra layer of immersion and creativity to the game. The use of Oracles should be well-known to solo RPG players, so it should be easy to grasp. The manual is around 12 pages long, so you can start playing quickly.

Oracles: If you played any solo RPG, you probably know ’em

The inclusion of optional quests that can be completed in the real world is a unique aspect of this game. It encourages players to go beyond the tabletop and embrace personal challenges that can lead to real-life growth and self-improvement. The flexibility to choose which quests to undertake and the potential rewards in both the game and real life make for a compelling and motivating experience. Also, it’s possible to use it as a character generator for Game Masters, or similiar tool to quickly generate ideas for characters in any modern RPG, in just a few rolls.

Verdict

Overall, “You: The Solo RPG Game” offers a refreshing and introspective take on the RPG genre. From the first pages, you get thrown into a wholesome ordeal. A game like no other.It provides a unique opportunity for players to explore their own lives, make choices, and experience personal growth in an interactive and enjoyable way. Whether played in the standard or classic solo RPG mode, this game is an immersive and rewarding experience for those seeking a deeper connection with their characters and themselves and maybe get that needed spark of energy.

“You: Solo Role-Playing Game” is available on Mobinetgames.com (along with additional materials to download like character sheet) and this solo RPG is available on Amazon now. Check it out, if you’re interested not only in solo RPGs, but want to get some motivation.

Corsair Leader is the next installment game of the bestselling Leader series from DVG Games, this time taking the action to the Pacific engulfed by a titanic struggle between Japan and the Allies. After the Vietnam War (Phantom Leader), the Cold War (Hornet Leader), and the Arab-Israeli Wars (Israeli Air Force Leader), this time player will take on the Japanese in campaigns for air supremacy over Okinawa, Coral Sea, Malaya, and even Pearl Harbor.

Campaign Mechanics

Corsair Leader is designed as a solo wargame, although you can also play cooperatively by splitting your forces. As a player, you will be leading 8 to 12 planes, performing various missions drawn randomly in one of the selected campaigns.

You start by selecting pilots, assigned to planes TBD Dauntless, B17 Bombers, and finally Corsairs. There are around ten types of planes to choose from and more than 70 pilots. Each pilot has different Air to Air and Air to Ground skills, Guns values, experience (from Green to Veteran) and more. Planes can be equipped with different payloads.

Plane availability depends on the campaign. As the United States Airforce was lacking at the start of the war and initial campaigns are difficult. You will have a hard time fighting Zeroes at Pearl Harbor or on the Phillipines with puny Buffalos. But as time progresses, more and more planes are available, including eponymous Corsairs. You will also have to outfit your planes with bombs and torpedoes, and later napalm and rockets depending on the mission. Everything costs you requisition points, so you have to balance carefully.

Depending on the campaign, you can choose between three “factions” – US Navy (that had its own airforce), US Airforce, and even RAF in two campaigns. Each faction has its own set of pilots and planes, although they’re pretty similar mechanics-wise.

Campaigns last from three to a dozen days, depending on the type of campaign and our choice. You can choose short, medium, and long campaigns, and they also differ in the number of requisition points to spend to choose. Each day you can fly one, or in some cases two missions, and after choosing the target, you’re taken to the abstract tactical map. Missions differ in VP (Victory Points) you get for completing them and the more mission is difficult and involves a larger amount of pilots, the bigger your score. Victory points score at the end of each campaign depends on your success or failure, so there is a push your luck mechanics, requiring you to choose harder missions over easier ones while risking your planes if you want to win the campaign.

Each campaign has also a set of special rules. Pictured above Wake Island is quite unusual, as its gameplay is a bit different.

Mission Mechanics

You’ll be dogfighting bandits and bombing ground and naval targets on an abstract map, covering a generic Pacific island. Each mission consists of 8 phases and 4 turns.

 

“Enemy troops” mission. Every mission has target and bandit ratings, telling you how many enemy counters to draw in each area (approach and target), special rules, and VP and Intel, and Recon points you get for completion.

Corsair Leader tactical display – this will be your tactical mission map. You can see from printed sequence of play, that it’s highly procedural, just like many solo wargames.

During the mission, you will be deciding the direction of your approach, which bandit to attack, and which planes to use to support. You can also use various maneuvers during dogfighting. Aerial combat is resolved quickly by rolling d10 and comparing your pilot skills to bandit skills, gun rating, and modifiers for maneuvering. You can also choose to use “Gung ho” tokens to guarantee yourself a hit or to negate bandit success. To spice things up, you’ll be drawing three random events during each mission. At the end of the fourth round, you have a mission debrief, count stress, perform SAR (search and rescue operations) for downed pilots, and add VP and Recon, and Intel Points. You’ll be also recording a number of downed planes, XP, and skills on the pilot sheet.

If you have a secondary target for the day, you can perform the second mission, usually short and simple, and start the next day of your campaign.

As usual for solo games, everything is very procedural, but a number of decision points, various campaigns, random events, additional play modes, tons of pilots, and planes to choose from don’t feel like it’s a grind.

Components

This is the biggest game for Leader Series, as it contains more than 500 cards, several countersheets, a mounted mapboard, a mounted maneuver board, and more than a dozen mission sheets. Component-wise, the quality is great and typical for DVG. Counters need no rounding, the generic map board is mounted and counter artwork is well done.

There is also one add-on – Ace Pilots, but it’s completely optional and doesn’t add much to the game. You get just more historical pilots with ace status. This also makes the game much easier, because considering their cost and ultimate skills, ace pilots seem to be OP for me.

Errata

Unfortunately, this game isn’t without flaws. The rules, while clear, need a lot of errata. Unless there’s a new printing (I got my copy a few years ago), I suggest thrashing the current rulebook and printing out a new one, available on the DVG site – there are just many updates. Moreover, even errata doesn’t address some ambiguities, like fighting enemy bombers. There are also misprinted cards and even some missing tokens for additional modes. You can also order update pack for this game, if you don’t want to print it.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• Great narrative: Your pilots will gain experience, obtain new skills, suffer from stress, and occasionally be shot down, only to be rescued a few days later by the SAR team, drifting through the sea. There is even a cool campaign where you’ll be leading the infamous “Black sheep” squadron as an unruly ace “Pappy” Boyington.
• Quality components: Typical for DVG, the components are great. You won’t be clipping counters, but the cards are usual CCG fare, so I recommend sleeving.
• Lots of stuff inside: This is the biggest Leader DVG game (new Stuka Leader and Zero Leader might be bigger, but only considering separate add-ons), with >500 cards, dozen campaigns, and some unique mechanics, like carrier campaigns.
• Full solo gameplay: Designed as solo gameplay, you won’t need a real opponent to play it.

Cons:

• Don’t try treating this game as a simulation. DVG wargames have a historical background, but I’ve yet to find a single Dan Verssen game that depicts any real organization, structure, or TOE. Your 8 planes will be busting out dozens of bandits and can sink an aircraft carrier, destroy a depot and bust out a dozen bunkers – all in 2 days. A narrative here is great, but don’t expect this game will faithfully reproduce war in the Pacific. Instead, treat it rather as an action movie on the board. It’s more of a “Dirty Dozen” than “A Bridge Too Far”.
• The game is too easy? Especially long campaigns that give you a lot of Intel points, allowing you to discard bandit tokens. I feel like some campaigns weren’t tested properly, and after getting familiar with the rules, it’s easy to get “Great” results, even on harder campaigns.
• Errata: As mentioned above, the current rulebook and proper cards are essential to play. Unfortunately, many DVG games have the same problem.
• The game is pretty similar to other Air Leader series. If you played Hornet Leader or Israeli Airforce Leader, the gameplay loop is the same, and while there are some new gimmicks, it’s not different.

Overall experience

Great entry to the leader series, but not without flaws. Still, I believe it’s the best entry in the (Airforce) Leader series, that should offer you at least 60 hours of gameplay, just playing through all the campaigns on medium length and in a standard mode. If you want to play all the campaigns on all lengths and with additional modes, this should give you hundreds of hours of fun. It’s quite replayable too, with different campaigns, targets, random events, and many pilots to choose from. Just don’t expect simulation. I give it easily 7,5/10 and this is a game that I will be certainly going back to.

Strategy & Tactics magazine games often cover offbeat topics or uncommon campaigns and Constantinople (S&T 318) is one of them. It’s actually the only wargame focusing on the late 7th and early 8th century Byzantium thematic period, with the name coming from thema (provincial) system, created by byzantine basilei (emperors).

At that time, Byzantium, or Eastern Roman Empire was still major power and the most powerful state in Europe and Asia Minor, but its position was precarious. Byzantine empire was gnawed at from all sides. Byzantines were encroached by various emirates, splintering off of Mohammed’s state after fitna’s (Muslim civil wars) infighting from the south and east, emerging Germanic states from across the Alps, like Lombards (or Longobards), Slavs, and Bulgars from the north and various nomadic tribes like Khazars, boldly striking from Asian steppes. It’s a very interesting period of history, dark ages in southeastern Europe and the Middle East, and indeed covered rarely in wargames. The only similar game on this topic is Justinian by GMT, which is a bonus, but a full-fledged game included in the GBOH Cataphract module.

Constantinople: solo wargame in States of the Siege style

 

Central part of the map. You can see barbarian invasion routes (black arrows), fortresses (red outlines) and Byzantine forces (red counters).

As a byzantine Basileos, you will have to try to maintain and protect your endangered empire, conserving as much territory as you can in the game’s 7 or 10 turns. This is done on a hex grid map, with invaders going through set routes, eventually ending in Constantinople. Your forces can go wherever you want, intercepting enemies, lifting sieges, and even attacking their territory. There are seven enemy factions, with three of them being activated and hostile at the start of the game. Additional factions can activate each turn randomly, adding even more pressure.

Random events table. Most of them are unpleasant for the Emperor, with the worst being enemy activations, basically meaning declaration of war from the seven enemy forces. Other event might be mitigated by lucky dice rolls and high Basileos capabilities, and even possibly can help you out a bit or hinder your enemies. This makes the game quite random, but not unpredictable, making it quite replayable.

The goal of the game is to get as many Victory Points at the end of the game as possible, which requires you to hold as much ground as possible, and conserve your treasury (very important, since you can get as much as half VP for having max 99 bezants at the conclusions). Alternatively, you can try conquering 4 enemy fortresses – barbarian seats of power, which is difficult, but definitely possible in 10 turn game. You can also instantly lose if any barbarian army takes the Constantinople.

Your forces are represented as single counters being an army-sized unit (10,000 to 30,000 men) chosen from provincial garrisons that can’t move, but are cheap and require no maintenance, Thematic forces from themes (provinces) that can move but require payments once moved out from their province, Tagmata or royal guards and Foederates or allied barbarians. This reflects earlier Western Roman Empire force breakdown of Limitanei and Comitatenses. You can also recruit Strategoi or generals with their retinues, and the leaders are very important in battles. There are also fleets that can transport your armies and even engage the fleets of Egyptian emirate.

Battles are resolved typical for hex and counter wargames using CRT, with column shifts awarded for terrain, fortresses, and leadership capabilities. You could also use stratagems to increase your chances of winning. Units have only a single stat, which is strength. Leaders have additionally leadership skills, providing CRT shifts. Enemy army strenght is hidden, until you encounter them in battle or revealed by using scout action.

Byzantium and Mosul Emirate forces arrayed for the battle for Trebizond (sometimes spelled Trapezund), at the border of Armenia. Byzantine forces are augmented by Federates or (Foederates) barbarian mercenaries. Number to the left represent unit strenght, while circled right number shows leadership of the commanding general. In case of two generals commanding forces, only the higher number is used. There are no movement capability in units, as this decided by a die roll each turn, with modifiers from leaders and starting the turn in forts, representing better logistics.

Byzantine intrigues are represented by treachery capabilities, allowing you to bribe enemy forces or incite rebellions, which gives you more stuff to do besides repelling invaders. Bribing the barbarians out was a prime policy of rich Eastern Roman Empire, since invasions of Attila but it’s long term results were catastrophic.  You can buy stratagems counters to improve capabilities or use them to conduct these special actions.

Basileos capabilities include Walls of Constantinople, giving CRT shifts, Religion, making it easier to incite religious treachery, Statecraft to help deal with random encounters, and more.
Finally, you can build monasteries to raise income and fortresses acting as additional rally points for your troops.

Basileos capabilities track

Some additional rules cover Armenian uprising, sieges, pillaging, church synods, barbarian resurgence and even personal duels between commanders. There’s quite a lot to do in this game, and the 16-page manual (+2 additional pages of optional rules) is pretty dense, so it’s definitely not a simple matter.

Also, don’t forget to download optional rules and a scenario (pages 17 and 18) from S&T page. There’s also errata on BGG, but it’s not extensive.

Pros:

• Solid replayability, with random enemy activation,
• Interesting period that’s rarely covered in wargames,
• Full solo rules,
• Map looks very nice,

Cons:

• Nice map, but thin counters – typical for magazine games, though DG lately started improving components.
• Limited availability – unless Decision Games reprints it later in a box,
• Some rule issues – errata isn’t that extensive.

Conclusion

There are not many wargames in this period, and there are exactly zero solo wargames focusing on Thematic Byzantines, so Constantinople definitely stands out. It’s worth picking this game up if you can, as once it sells, it will be gone unless DG reprints it later as a boxed game. Playtime is maybe 2 to 3 hours. Setup will take you no more than 10-15 minutes. The components are typical DG magazine games fare, so paper map 34” x 22” paper map, 176 counters, and 16-page insert to the magazine. And it definitely has the chrome, putting you in a boots of ERE Emperor, trying to save his empire, with many historical rules. And if you don’t know much about the 7th-century Byzantium, Joe Miranda has written a really good article in accompanying S&G magazine that will introduce you into Byzantine politics and warfare.

This pretty obscure game definitely deserves more attention from wargamers. If you like State of Siege type games, that are much more complex than Ottoman Sunset (a very simplistic game with little player agency), you will enjoy Constantinople too.

I’ve made some scratchbuilt terrain in recent months and it was fun! Dark Age terrain is pretty easy to make and you can put it together from some basic materials: wooden sticks, cardboard, paper – whatever you have on hand. First on: a hovel, with Jomsviking for scale:

I’ve made roof using towels, with this method from An Hour of Wolves blog. Just pick up some old towel, cut it into strips and paint it with a mix of watered down pva glue and brown paint and then drybrush.

I’ve used some kind of DIY foam in sheets that I stolen from my wife’s scrapbooking stash. It has this nice texture with very tiny holes that looks great as a wall.

Building is then glued into base with grass, tufts and other vegetation.

Next up: stone walls! These were made from real pebbles that you can buy in craft store or in my case – in home design shops. It’s the kind of decorative gravel used to fill flower vases. You can get a lot of this tiny pebbless for like $2-$3.

I’ve made them using method from Wargames Illustrated magazine by stacking them up, and then gluing layer after layer with PVA glue. When painted and drybrushed in various greys, they look fantastic and can be used for many settings – from ancients and fantasy to ACW. These walls are also very sturdy and

Jomsviking for scale.

A fire. Base + wooden splinters painted very dark gray and drybrushed. Fire painted with reds and yellows and the smoke is made from teddy bear filler.

 

 

There are quite a few interesting hex and chit or card solo World War II wargames like DVGs Warfighter or Corsair Leader or John Butterfield D-Day series. However, when it comes to miniature gaming, we aren’t exactly spoiled for choice. There is literally a single wargame that provides comprehensive rules for solo or cooperative wargaming – and it’s “Nuts!” by Two Hour Wargames (not to be confused with Flames of War Battle of the Bulge supplement with the same name). See how it plays and discover if it provides fun way to play WWII battle solo or cooperatively, with few players on the same side against AI.

“December 22, 1944

To the German Commander,
N U T S !
The American Commander”

– Gen. McAuliffe’s reply to Germans encircling Bastogne

Nuts! is a sandbox ruleset based on Two Hour Wargames reaction system. Previous version was named “Final Edition”, but it didn’t prove to be that final and current edition wields number four. This is a typical Print and Play book (you can get paperback version too) where you will find all the rules needed to play and create your forces, battles and campaigns for solo, cooperative and head to head play.

What’s the scale and forces available?

You can play Nuts! with whatever you have at hand – 28 mm miniatures, 15 mm miniatures, 1/72, paper cutouts (there are some free paper soldiers available on the net). You only need to have consistent basing and pick length scale. At default, ranges are expressed in inches, and if you play 1/72 or 15 mm or just have small table, you can adjust it to centimeters or quarters of inches. Personally, I play 15 mm, measuring with cm.

All miniatures must be on single bases, however when it comes to WWII it’s not that big of a problem, because in 28 mm everyone bases soldier individually on square or round base. Base size doesn’t matter much. When it comes to 15 mm, Flames of War basing (typically 4 figures per base) won’t work, at least for infantry battles, as squads can be broken up and some soldiers can be pinned down or flee, while others not, in single squad. Squads can be grouped up as you wish on the battlefield.

Nuts! covers post 44’ force lists, so Late War British, Germans, Soviets and US on ETO only. There is however a Nuts! Compendium supplement that covers other theaters and additional rules like cavalry, airborne assaults, air strikes and more. If you want to field more exotic forces of the war, like Chinese PLA against Japanese, you can easily come up with your own stats – rules are not complicated.

Rules are supplemented with simple diagrams, and basic concepts are typical for WW II wargames, like squad cohesion. 

Every soldier has its own Reputation, which act as his morale and fighting skills, and different weapon with various stats. Optionally, each soldier can have its own traits – there are 36 traits to generate for each soldier! If you play for the first time, I suggest not using these abilities yet, which makes the game faster and less bookkeeping is necessary.

Few sample traits

Additionaly, one or few of your soldiers can be designated as Stars – they’re heroes that can’t be easily kill and have more free will, so you won’t need to roll on reaction tables for them, unlike standard Grunts. All this forms basics of THW rules and works similarly in each of their other games.

How AI works?

It’s not really IGOUGO game like other typical ruleset, as your squads and enemy soldiers will be taking Reaction tests to see how they act. You won’t be parading before enemies, taking your time, but as soon as squads are in line of sight, you’ll roll on reaction test which may lead to one site taking initiative and shooting, ducking for cover or maybe both sides shooting and then retreating.

On AI initiative, you’ll be rolling on quite a few tables to check how it behaves. Ultimately, it’s up to you which exact path enemy soldiers will pick or which squad they’ll shoot (if opportunities are even), but the rules provide really straight pointers as to how the enemy will behave, so you won’t need to decide this by yourself.

Sample part of infantry behavior table

Also, enemy forces are generated through PEF points and if you play solo you never exactly know what awaits you around the corner. It might be enemy squad, machine gun emplacement or even tank – it’s all generated. PEFs also move around table and this fog of war ensures surprising and tense encounter on solo vs AI games.

Skirmish or company level?

You can play Nuts! however you wish. You can pit just half squad of 5-6 soldiers against each other (I suggest this for beginners), or you can field entire platoon of 40-50 soldiers in large skirmishes. The game should play well on these scales. There are also fast tank rules that I like and you can field AT guns too.

My 15 mm Canadians in Normandy – Tank battles are tense and hazardous here. You can easily play platoon against platoon of 5 tanks or even more, especially if you exclude some more complicated rules. When playing Tanks, I don’t differentiate crew REP and ability (for example, every crewman is REP 4 in entire platoon) and omit some unnecessary movement tests. There is Sherman, Canadian C15TA armored truck, 25pdr and gun tractor – and all these vehicles are covered in British list, so you can field your late war forces.

For larger engagements, pick Nuts! Big Battles (it’s another ruleset by THW), that allows playing with aforementioned Flames of War bases on company level, so dozen tanks  and several infantry platoons.

Tournament play vs. scenarios

Nuts! isn’t suited for tournament play, as it doesn’t feature points. They’re not important in this kind of game though. It’s a sandbox where you will generate your and enemy forces, tweak it if you need, and play a mission or entire campaign or maybe create your scenario or base your battle on real engagement.

Because stats aren’t complicated that much, you can easily come up with your points values though. Besides, if you pitch forces that are about the same level, like US Paratroopers against Elite SS forces the game will offer a fair challenge for all sides, if you decide to play against other players.

“Chocolate and Cigarettes”

Last great thing is “Chocolate and Cigarettes” light RPG module. I haven’t played it yet, but it looks really good. You’ll be rolling on the tables to generate NPC encounters, speak with the locals, search for items, bartering, picking locks, interrogating prisoners, making Nuts! not only strictly wargame, but also RPG that takes place between battles.

Basic RPG attributes. As you can see, your soldier will be able to perform a variety of tasks when not shooting Germans! (or Russians, or maybe Brits)

If you decide to play “Chocolate and Cigarettes”, your soldiers will have a set of additional non-combat stats and abilities like charisma and successful completion of these quests will yield benefits on the following battles. Again, you can let the dice decide everything, and you can come up with your own scenarios, based on the rolls. Suits me very well, as I’ve been DMing various RPGs for ten years. It’s your game, so go ahead and have fun!

Pros:

• The only ruleset for solo and cooperative WWII tabletop miniature wargaming
• Sandbox rules offering many possibilities
• Everything can be generated – just pick forces, and roll dice to generate your soldiers, terrain and enemies
• Playable at any scale, and even with paper counters
• Fast, dynamic gameplay that can be brutal sometimes (just like World War II)
• Very flexible and easy to expand, so you can come up with your scenarios, additional rules and campaigns
• RPG layer in a form of “Chocolate and Cigarettes”

Cons:

• Not for tournament play – there are no point values!
• Strict basing requirement – all miniatures must be on single bases
• Quite a few tables – but they’re easy to memorize
• No tokens in a book and they’re necessary to play. You can download unofficial ones from the forum.
• Typical PnP supplement – it has almost no illustrations, besides few simple diagrams, but this makes the book clear and concise. It’s not D&D Monster Manual and it needs clear tables, not pretty pictures to work.

In conclusion

You’ll love this ruleset if you’re interested in playing sandbox game cooperatively and solo. It’s a chance to put your favorite toys on the table and play against unpredictable AI, when your gaming group isn’t available to you for any reasons.

While obviously not as popular as Bolt Action or FoW, or maybe even Chain of Command, it has some faithful followers – and I’ve been just converted too. There’s also a forum where creator will answer your every rule question.

Let’s just say that it’s 4th Edition and it’s in sale for more than 10 years, so it is successful and deserves more recognition. Two Hour Wargames also makes other solo rule sets based on the same Reaction system – 5150 SciFi series, All Things Zombie – zombie postapocalypse, FNG – Tour of Duty – Vietnam War and more. It’s tried and proven ruleset that should bring you basically endless fun, especially if you’re creative and can come up with your own scenarios, battle set-ups and campaign.

Available on Wargame Vault for $19.90 for PDF or on Amazon (link below), also in print. 107 pages long.

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There are currently two supplements available: mentioned previously Nuts!Compendium, with more rules and additional army lists and Blood on The Risers, campaign covering US Airborne action in the West.

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What are you waiting for, soldier. Pick it up and defend the Bastogne – or storm it!