Hell and Fateful Decisions is now out.
The idea behind this set of rules, aimed at smaller scale figures, is relatively simple. It is to place the player in the position of Battalion Commander. The idea is to cover the period from the First World War to tomorrow. They’re designed to be played with 6mm figures but obviously work for 2mm, 6mm, 10mm, and I know people who’ve used them with multiple based 15mm figures.
Because of this the rules have been designed to limit the fine detail that the player has to handle. In a combat the Battalion Commander is not going to worry about the positioning of squad automatic weapons and the handling of platoon assets. Lieutenants are paid to worry about that for him. However, the distribution of Battalion heavy weapons and the co-ordination of support units attached to the Battalion from the Division is very much his responsibility.
The rules include sections on solo play, ‘shaping the battlefield’ and they also attempt to cover drone warfare. The problem I faced in updating these rules is that warfare is undergoing a period of rapid evolution. The battlefield is a very different place to what it was when these rules were first published thirty years ago.
On the positive side, these rules also include the remarkably popular Kalashnikov Tribal rule set, which took very little updating, because incompetence is reassuringly timeless.
It’s available from Amazon in paperback for £10 or on Kindle for £4
It’s available from Wargame Vault for £4 in pdf.
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/465582/Hell-and-Fateful-Decisions
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