If you are representing skirmishers then mount units in single ranks and move the front rank forward to represent skirmish order but I don’t remember if you count all firing or fire only the front rank ???

When firing Mike an angle reader that shows who can’t fire as the supplied templates have too many options so make several copies to make it easier for use on the table. Same with wheeling make the template to show the inside arc of the wheel. It really speeds up play and makes it more accurate. In a battle losses are usually along all the line until it become necessary to close ranks or reform but bear in mind you may have a frontage to cover then brigade may tell the colonel what to do.

When firing Mike an angle reader that shows who can’t fire as the supplied templates have too many options so make several copies to make it easier for use on the table. Same with wheeling make the template to show the inside arc of the wheel. It really speeds up play and makes it more accurate. In a battle losses are usually along all the line until it become necessary to close ranks or reform but bear in mind you may have a frontage to cover then brigade may tell the colonel what to do.

However if you were using the correct basing you wouldn’t need that. When you loose a base you loose 1 strength point, but using the Epic Black Powder bases of 10 files (60mm wide). 3 officer figures on a small square or round base behind to represent each of the 3 troop bases of 20mm each. Remove an officer for each time a base is lost. Alternatively if you don’t want to paint all those officers you could just use a small penny counter paint green with a red I, II, or III to represent.base es removed in the ACW I believe a 2nd Lt. was used behind the platoon to keep them steady whereas British Napoleonic would have used a sergeant for the platoon and a 2nd. Lt. for the company. On a company level the ACW would probably be the same. I decide to paint a 28mm. Brigade for napoleonic revised to a battalion when I counted the cost of extra minis but everything is sold in packs these days so I’ll need a rethink for the 3rd division at Waterloo as Pictons division may be more interesting. Back to ACW :- the first Manassas has an 11 mile front that’s going to take some planning as 10mm bases 2 ranks of 2 files with 10mm figures might be a bit fiddly to play with ☹️

Really enjoyed the video and would love to see some more. I have the game but yet to open it up.

Is that included in 1st or 2nd edition or separate? Any critical differences between the two versions ?

That's badass! I didn't know about Topside Minis, thanks for the tip!

Really like these rules and trying out their pre dreadnought version at the moment

Just ordered my copy (3rd edition) I'm planning to play it the way you do, play both sides. Seems There is no way I can find a copy of the solo mode for now unfortunately.

Thanks! Great review.

I just got the game, the good vid here will help me get going. Relative movement works well excluding multiple ships per side as well as Islands, shoals, reefs, and sandbars, coastlines, forts

I was looking for a naval wargame that I owned back in the 80's but I just can't remember the name of it. It was similar to Cordite and Steel in that it had charts for D100 hit locations for each class of ship ( WWII ). Do you have any ideas? Thanks.

I am thinking about this using 1/300 or 1/285 miniatures. I also have a lot of 15mm tanks but I think they are the wrong scale for this.

Most of the people I know use these campaign guides as painting ones 😅

Soviet penetration of 108 vs M1 armour of 100 means KO not BU, correct?

Love reading the manuals as much as playing the game as a kid. Had the original which was the same as this and came out just after Wrath of Kahn

Hi there. Great vid. Would you recommend this over Combat Commander? Thanks :-)

Still have this game. Used to play with my dad back in the 80's Miss ya dad.

Yeh, the photocopied pages are from the 1986 "revised and expanded" rule set. In the blue box. Looks like the original owner just borrowed a copy and xeroxed the pages they needed to update. Fun game - nice and fast playing. Not as detailed as SFB but with a good gaming circle you could play a few games of STCS in a night. There is still an active community online and even an unofficial set of rules that try to mimic SFB.

nice review, I played the Regimental version and like it a lot

Elegant method to store ASL are bead storage trays. Plastic, with 32 spaces and other available sizes, too. From Walmart at just under $7 at this writing. Best of luck! :)

Hi there! I know this is an older video but just wanted to say this is exactly what I need as a new casual gamer who just brought the Master and Commander set. You’ve made this very clear to put together which other videos don't - so thanks for making it easier for me!

How'd you get that map printed up? Love the upgrade with the minis. I've been printing ships for other games at about 1/3000 to 1/1800. Ive got the game but really would like it on the larger scale. Great video.

Saw it, didn't understand why it was published because SFB was already on the market ... at the switch up Roddenberry did by making a Bird of Prey a Klingon thing when it was a Rom ship in the series ... is just more swtich up by the Trek powers that be. I bought the FASA RPG, but had a hard time getting a group together due to the POS family.

Hasn't been any activity on this channel for a while, are you ok?

"Napoleon, Napoleon? Napoleonic's!" lol, I love my dad, (he's my dad, in one of his vids Im in it.)

Just saw this video. My wife has tons of art and craft tools. She saw me taking some games apart, and she gave me one her tools some time back. it is made by Fiskars. basically a pizza cutter, ( very sharp ), with a blade protector... i can cut thru an entire games counters in the matter of minutes.. then I take my card clipper, like you showed on here. and vala. done. Just did the entire MBT game in 3 hours... That arts and craft pizza cutter, works great. I tried that knife stuff since i started gaming in late 60's, what a PIA... 3 cheers for pizza cutters

Firestorm Armada?

Those were exactly my thoughts about this game. After few battles played solo, I still feel I am not countreacting by using Dragons Card, but I am having a very, very good time while playing. More dynamic title in comparison to Napoleonics (which I love too).

Hey I love the channel, I'm just getting into naval gaming again myself after selling my old models years ago. Great to see you've gone over various rulesets and explained what you like about them!

Really helpful video! One little quibble: You gave WW1 too much credit for less complexity, you have wing turrets, casement batteries, too many different types of gun on a single ship, and most capital ships actually have torpedoes, admittedly torpedoes much shorter range compared to WW2.

Do both sides finish moving with their cards…then combat occurs OR Player 1 moves then combat then Player 2 moves then combat?

14:51 Firing at long-range halves the firepower.

I don't know about that game, looks like every German tank is a panther, and I don't knock what that crazyness is on the American side?

My wife and I play this all the time. Very enjoyable game at this level of complexity

It's nice to play games with your son. I remember those days.

Nice post m8 , are u still playing this? Just got it looking for the caen/Goodwood ex to finish whith,,i think this might turn out to b a good game , set up look's pretty quick, i got all the shadows Kitt,

I just played this solo also. I didn't see any need for terrain objectives. the combat is so deadly in 15 turns the side that survives would then just take the objectives with no opposition

Oh yeah and da radio/Factory complex, Sewers,,?

Bro bru , Dust , devil boi , point du hok , where's da scenarios? ? ? 🕊️👍

Wow in Old School Tactical the counters are larger than the hexes. That’s a deal breaker for me.

How do these two games compare to Advanced Squad Leader ASL and Advanced Tobruk System ATS?

Impulse base simultaneous movement is very tactical, though a bit slower. Fed Commander is a decent analogue of Tac Simulator w regards to movement. The ships in the FASA system were pretty slick. SFB’s SSD were hard to beat. When a ship was getting beat up in SFB you could really see it. Nice vid.

I wonder what a little ship looks like on the 36000 scale? It just be almost invisible. 😁

This game looks fantastic! Unfortunately there are so few of them around that it's going for $200-$400 on the web.

you can get all the needed assets to print and play this game from tabletop simulator

Sorry for taking this comment section out of it's sleep... Did you ever test/play "Naval Thunder - Clash of Dreadnoughts"?

Any chance we could see a tutorial/detailed example of play?

Newer versions are crap. Quality isnt even an afterthought.

How is this game solo?