{"id":2496,"date":"2014-01-20T21:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:05:43","slug":"some-new-thinking-on-the-wwii-skirmish-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2014\/01\/20\/some-new-thinking-on-the-wwii-skirmish-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Some New Thinking on the WWII Skirmish Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a chance to play G.A.M.E.R. this weekend. \u00a0All the way home from Charlotte I was thinking about the tweaks I want to make. \u00a0Today I spent a little time on the computer making those changes. \u00a0I wanted to improve the way hand-to-hand combat worked. \u00a0I wanted to make a few small changes to the action deck. \u00a0I also wanted to put the effects of non-penetrating vehicle hits on the cards. \u00a0Finally I wanted to make a better unit roster.<\/p>\n

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Changes to action deck cards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can see three of the four changes to the action deck cards above. \u00a0The first is that I labelled the large, medium, and small bursts \u00a0to make it easier for players to distinguish them quickly, especially in their first game. \u00a0Second, added one more modifier, or column shift, for firing. \u00a0That shift is a shift to the right if the leader is not present. \u00a0This might be applied if the leader is stunned, is firing his weapon, is dead, or for whatever reason is not directing the fire of his squad. \u00a0The third change was to change the labels on the “table” of bubbles on the top of the card. \u00a0They had been labelled E, V, and T for expert, veteran, and trained, respectively. \u00a0Since units’ and soldiers’ Guts attributes were labelled Elite, Regular, and Green, this created confusion. \u00a0Now Guts, Accuracy, and Melee use the same semantic labels: \u00a0Elite, Green, and Regular.<\/p>\n

Vehicle combat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have codified the process for shooting at vehicles:<\/p>\n

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  1. Flip a card to see if you hit the target vehicle, just like normal small arms fire.<\/li>\n
  2. If you hit, flip the NEXT card to determine the location on the vehicle.<\/li>\n
  3. Consult the vehicle record sheet to determine the protection value for that part of the target vehicle.<\/li>\n
  4. Roll a d10 (or flip a card and look at the d10 toward the top left) and add the attacking weapon’s penetration value.<\/li>\n
  5. If this sum is greater than the vehicle’s protection, the hit penetrates.<\/li>\n
  6. Flip the NEXT card. \u00a0If you see a large explosion, the vehicle is destroyed, the crew is killed, and the other players rejoice. \u00a0If you do not see a large explosion, bad things happen (to be defined). \u00a0In addition, roll TWO crew casualty dice. \u00a0For each hit indicated on the crew casualty die, flip another card, ignoring cover, to determine which crewman was hit and how badly he was hit.<\/li>\n
  7. If the hit does not penetrate, apply the results from the hit location card draw to the vehicle as non-penetrating hit damage. \u00a0In addition, roll ONE crew casualty die. \u00a0or each hit indicated on the crew casualty die, flip another card, ignoring cover, to determine which crewman was hit and how badly he was hit. \u00a0This may result in too many crew casualties for non-penetrating hits, so I need to test it out. \u00a0The math seems about right, but still want to see how it works on the table.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A crew casualty die looks like this: \u00a00, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2.<\/p>\n

    Hand to Hand Combat:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Note on the card above that there are the five little bubbles under the cartoony-looking tank. \u00a0This is used to determine which target person was hit. \u00a0I plan to also use this for hand to hand combat. \u00a0Here’s how I think it will work. \u00a0Each player flips a card. \u00a0The position of the bubble indicates your initial hand to hand value. \u00a0In the card above, that would be 5. \u00a0Modify this result as follows:<\/p>\n