'Victory Wihout Quarter' questions

[ochoin]

I'm working up to a solo game next week. This is intended to bring me up to speed so when I introduce it to my pals, it will be a relatively painless experience. The rules are remarkably straight forward yet offer enough choice to cover a wide range of armies & situations.

However, I have a few questions & the forum, over at TLoA, seems dead. So, to the experienced players out there.....

1. ADC rule. I very much like the mechanism but I don't see the point. It seems a slow way, very much open to failure, to contact a single unit which appears to have strayed from its brigade. Or am I missing something?
2. Horse in melee. Am I correct in thinking only a single squadron charges into a melee. And if it continues, you can add a second squadron(& possibly a third or fourth if it goes for an implausible 3-4 rounds)?
3. Regimental guns? I have quite a lot & would like to use them - add a firing dice to a P&S regiment?
4. The FAQs cover highlanders. Other Scottish troop types are covered by 'raw', 'trained' & veteran' status. But Scottish (Covenanter) cavalry - Trotters? Gallopers look too dashing.

cheers, donald

[Essex Boy]

Considering their brevity, I think the best thing to do with these rules is to view them as a tool kit or framework for creating something that works for you. Once you've played them a few times you can bolt on bits and bobs, or leave stuff out, to take them to a product that you're all comfortable with.

But playing them as the author intends, warts 'n' all, is probably the best way to see how he's balanced the usual suspects - command, move, melee, shoot and morale.

E

[ochoin]

As you know, I'm an inveterate tinkerer. I'll mess with a game until it's unplayable, abandon it, find a new game & start over.

However, in this case I'm mostly trying to work out a couple of things but also defuse a comment from one of my pals; along the lines of, "I've done painted these gold-darned figures & I-se wantin' to use 'em, so don't you be about changin' the god-damned rules & be upsettin' the natural order of things as ordained by the good gawd."

Yes, he's from Perth.

donald

[FreddBloggs]

With that accent I thought Queensland....

[Etranger]

Yes, he's from Perth.

donald

Which one? Although the mindset is similar either way.

[ochoin]

Which one?

Yes.