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'A gaping silken dragon,/Puffed by the wind, suffices us for God./We, not the City, are the Empire's soul:/A rotten tree lives only in its rind.'

Thursday 9 May 2013

Fast...

... and furious! Amazing stuff! And I thought Rapid Fire could give a bloody game. As you know, this was, for me, a test play of Too Fat Lardies' Through the Mud and the Blood. And as such I was only playing small forces, being inspired to use the rule set by the Triumphant Standards supplement. So, no artillery, no barrages, no tanks, bunkers, air support etc, just the Milice, the Resistance, and, perhaps a German armoured car plus paras in support. So how did it go?


Having whittled down a Main of the Milice in a fire fight (see previous post), Hairy Pierre led his men in a very successful hand to hand with the enemy, killing all but one, who legged it. So far, so Resistance.


The cards seemed to have been going all the Resistants' way, and Felix decided to storm the HQ. A rash move, as inside, under the command of Big Man III, Le Chretien, was another Main, with LMG. And Le Chretien's card came up. Cue withering fire that killed all the attackers bar one. 


But to complete the moment, the next card was 'sentry', and the part-time Milicien sentry engaged the survivor with a close burst from his Sten. Goodbye Gaullist/Communist/bandit/whatever.


The Miliciens in the HQ then turned their attention to Petit Jo's boys sheltering behind the hedge line. Their fire had had little effect, as had the Resistance's LMG firing from across the main road. But the HQ boys made sure.


Hairy Pierre decided to push on, and led his men forwards, only for the next card to unleash the armoured car...


Fin.

This was fast play, but enjoyable, and the card driven mechanism was ideal for solo play helping to reduce predictability and certainly raising the level of gaming 'friction', just as the authors intended.

8 comments:

  1. Excellent little game AlFront!
    But what happened to Pierre?.. did the armoured car simply wipe out the remaining group?

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    1. Ah, you will note, if you peer closely enough at the photo, that Hairy Pierre (Old Fox that he is) is actually out of the line of sight of the Jerry a/c...

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  2. Looks like it proceeded at a decent clip. I do like games where things *happen*

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    1. I find Taylor's special reserve port speeds things along.

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  3. An exciting skirmish,I hope we see more of your games using theses rules.

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    1. Yes, I rather enjoyed the card driven mechanism. It seems absolutely ideal for the 'Under Two Flags' toy soldier general. I'll be trying them again.

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  4. All brilliant stuff - hopefully this weekend we can get a game in and have less of the solo stuff going on!

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    1. It was rather fun. We need to incorporate your 'Lacombe, Lucien' figures into the next game - plus Citroen Traction Avant.

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