{"id":522,"date":"2011-06-19T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-06-19T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T11:06:26","slug":"first-play-test-of-lsnc-napoleonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"First Play Test of LSNC: Napoleonics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday night, Dave Wood, Chris Palmer, Kurt Schlegel, and Eric Schlegel came over for the first official play test of LSNC: Napoleonic Wars<\/em>. \u00a0I was most interested in trying out the skirmish rules and getting some ideas on the numbers for melee, etc. \u00a0The scenario wasn’t ideal. \u00a0I put a river down the middle of the table with three crossings. \u00a0The objective was to be the side that captured two out of three bridges. \u00a0An open field battle might have been better for this initial play test. \u00a0There was some good give and take. \u00a0The basics seemed to work okay, but the numbers I had assigned for morale, etc. needed to be reworked. \u00a0The next play test is scheduled for 1 July.<\/p>\n

Despite advice to the contrary, we went with the name Look, Sarge, No Charts: WWII <\/em>for the original rules. \u00a0There were two issues with this. \u00a0First, because is said “sarge,” may people thought it was a set of rules for skirmish gaming. \u00a0Second, since the title sounded goofy, may people dismissed the rules. \u00a0For the ACW version, we made LSNC: American Civil War <\/em>the subtitle. \u00a0The title is A Union So Tested<\/em>, which is from a quote by Joshua Chamberlain. \u00a0We will do something similar for Napoleonics, but we haven’t hit upon the right quote yet.<\/p>\n

Kurt will be running a LSNC: Napoleonic Wars game at Historicon, so come by and take a look.<\/p>\n