Bombarding Tank Riders

[plloyd1010]

Vince, you never did or do rules/mod negotiations? I've doing it since high school. It always seemed to be the way through college, and at the conventions (Mile High Con at least). The basic flow was we started talking about the games we would be playing and what we had read about history, or previous session experiences. About the time we were setting up the discussion would be more of how well the game simulated events on the game's scale, notes and mods from prior games then moved in. Once setup, the questions: What are we going to do? (ie: mods we may want apply for this session. We made notes, stuck them in the rulebook, and played the game. Afterward, there was short debriefing round-table (what worked, what didn't, was it worth the trouble), mark-up the notes, talk about next time. There were guys who started RAW others who always had to change "one more thing".

I didn't have that book, but it is online. It looks a good read to me. Have you read 'Small Unit Actions' CMH pub. 100-14, or 'Bastogne: The First Eight Days?' by S.L.A. Marshall? I presume you've gone through a few field manuals for mixed battalion & brigade combat teams. They can be quite interesting, if a little too modern. Anyway, I've downloaded 'Small Unit Actions During The German Campaign in Russia'. I got the epub version.