The Loose Association of Wargamers

It is 90% waffle, and 10% bloody obvious. You can gave my copy for postage cost.

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.

Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary

It mentions tfl, once, in passing, and while dismissing any rules structure rp doesn't like.

There is a lot of irrelevant stuff in it. A whole chapter on figure scale may have some bearing if you are sculpting the figures yourself but from a rules design point of view 20mm is the same as 25mm, 28mm or 32mm.

Where can I read said commentary?

I assume the core of the handbook is to roll to hit, then roll to save, at either 33% or 50% increments.

Jeremy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:54 pm

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.

Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary

HMS Priapus wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:50 pm Where can I read said commentary?

I assume the core of the handbook is to roll to hit, then roll to save, at either 33% or 50% increments.

Jeremy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:54 pm

goat major wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.

Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary

To be honest, I don’t remember. Either on the TFL blog or his twitter feed

I was underwhelmed by it. It wasn't terrible, just lightweight and not really offering anything new or substantial you could get your teeth into. I suspect that if you followed their advice (and their clearly stated likes/dislikes) you'd end up writing Warhammer/40K. No bad thing necessarily, but I think that's already been done.

It's one of those single-read titles, so if anyone is going to Hammerhead and wants my copy let me know.

What I am looking for is a book that helps me write rules, you know puts the technical framework together so others can read it. The ideas and game mechanics side I can do, but a checklist of sections etc. Is where I fall down.

You are talking about structured writing. Barker is worth using for a tick box template.

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