What are people buying?

[Jeremy]

Right. So it took less than a minute for me to choose a blank background in PowerPoint, add a table of the required size and then add the images from the D&D file to the table, resizing the table as required. Really not difficult.

Like all Lardy rules, if what they suggest doesn’t work for you, feel free to change it to what does. If you prefer Word, use Word

[Shahbahraz]

I'm not saying it's difficult, it took me no time at all to make it work in PP and in Word. I'm actually tempted to write a PHP script to assemble it as an HTML page. But then you may as well code in the random dice roll to create a whole map from scratch. (Which takes away some of the fun).

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical, and if you are a computer noob, then you're going to struggle.

[RMD]

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical

Encapsulates my experiences perfectly of trying to read Lardies' rules. Their enduring popularity is a complete mystery to me.

[Shahbahraz]

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical

Encapsulates my experiences perfectly of trying to read Lardies' rules. Their enduring popularity is a complete mystery to me.

I'd agree with that view of the earlier TFL rules, the later ones are much tighter, and read much less like something that was knocked together for the boys at the club to play.

[RMD]

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical

Encapsulates my experiences perfectly of trying to read Lardies' rules. Their enduring popularity is a complete mystery to me.

I'd agree with that view of the earlier TFL rules, the later ones are much tighter, and read much less like something that was knocked together for the boys at the club to play.

Fair enough. I gave up on them years ago, but sounds like I might have to give them a second chance.

[valleyboy]

I'm not saying it's difficult, it took me no time at all to make it work in PP and in Word. I'm actually tempted to write a PHP script to assemble it as an HTML page. But then you may as well code in the random dice roll to create a whole map from scratch. (Which takes away some of the fun).

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical, and if you are a computer noob, then you're going to struggle.

Are you Phil Barker in disguise?

[tim.w]

What I am saying is that the 'instructions' Rich gives are nonsensical

Encapsulates my experiences perfectly of trying to read Lardies' rules. Their enduring popularity is a complete mystery to me.

I'd agree with that view of the earlier TFL rules, the later ones are much tighter, and read much less like something that was knocked together for the boys at the club to play.

There's a larger motor pool in the garage these days. I thought What a Tanker was really simple and easy, a good intro game even. CoC however was a nightmare to game with, too much back and forth through the book when situations occured though the games I've played of it looked and felt more like a plausible scenario than anything you'd find from a game of BA. I still prefer BA as a game, it just gets ruined by 40k mindsets.

I'm really tempted by Infamy Infamy from what I've seen but that's another period I don't need atm.

[RMD]

Encapsulates my experiences perfectly of trying to read Lardies' rules. Their enduring popularity is a complete mystery to me.

I'd agree with that view of the earlier TFL rules, the later ones are much tighter, and read much less like something that was knocked together for the boys at the club to play.

There's a larger motor pool in the garage these days. I thought What a Tanker was really simple and easy, a good intro game even. CoC however was a nightmare to game with, too much back and forth through the book when situations occured though the games I've played of it looked and felt more like a plausible scenario than anything you'd find from a game of BA. I still prefer BA as a game, it just gets ruined by 40k mindsets.

I'm really tempted by Infamy Infamy from what I've seen but that's another period I don't need atm.

Hmmm... I played a couple of games of WaT and thought it was just Yahtzee with tanks.

[Paul]

I haven't bought it yet but will do. It does say its a Northern European set so expectations firmly set. Of course Dawns and Departures (possibly the best campaign supplement I've ever bought) doesn't need the artwork - you can knock your own up with pen and paper really quickly if you don't need the prettiness.

If you want the prettiness something like Campaign Cartographer could be used to get any tiles you wanted in any setting...pretty much

[levied troop]

The Perfect Captains Battlefinder is also rather useful:
http://perfectcaptain.50megs.com/bfinder.html

for ready-made maps/grid-systems.