Gangs of Rome 2; How to Play advance Rules

[@SteveInTokyo-b8n]

Another well-presented and informative guide.

[@CryHavocWarGaming]

Thank You!

[@iannicholson5107]

You never cease to surprise me Ron. You are uncommon. I think my dear chap that is the least of our problems. You have my best wishes sir. You are, by God, a gentleman and I thank you for it.

[@iannicholson5107]

Ron. I am currently bemused by an Irish woman. Once you get by the first fifteen years and eldritch horror and tentacles it is normally fine. I sometimes wonder why we gave them the vote but that's my problem. I sometimes wonder why we gave my woman the vote. She is a good cook and loves me. I am inclined to think she is clinically insane. People who love me are normally out on day release or suitably tagged.

[@CryHavocWarGaming]

Thanks again!

[@iannicholson5107]

Oh god Ron I have just bumped into an old wargaming acquaintance called Ed. There's a man who has not easily skipped towards charisma. I panicked and talked about your Gangs of Rome podcast. There's no place like Rome in a crisis. If I were a crueller man I might have thrown pebbles at him. The audience is still out on that latter option. With best wishes.

[@iannicholson5107]

Always a pleasure Ron. As you may well know I am still troubled by nerve damage to a fingertip cut occasioned whilst stripping flash from Carnevale figures. Happily I shall blame you entirely as old men are accustomed to do. As always with thanks. Fortunately my Subbuteo soccer career has not been unduly ended since I am right handed. We flick to kick if you have ever essayed the game. So many football careers have otherwise been ended prematurely by the dubious advice of American wargamers.

[@CryHavocWarGaming]

Very good to hear from you my friend. I am aware of Subbeteo. I did poorly in a tournament last May and will no doubt do so again next May!

[@iannicholson5107]

Ron this is clearly off piste and I apologise for it. In all my long wargaming life and despite many a rulebook, rpg or skirmish, I have never found anything that has captured the Wild West. The first boardgame I ever had was bought for a Christmas long ago and was Waddington's Battle of the Little Big Horn. I have a Western Town without rules. Philosophically that's great but without rules I might as well throw marbles at my painted toys. This is not going to happen. I would appreciate any recommendations. It's not classical but it's where the buffalo Rome.

[@CryHavocWarGaming]

I am a big fan of Gunfighter's Ball, if you are looking for gunfighter's stuff. It is bloody and built for just a few characters. I am looking for something for more Cavalry and Indian stuff. I have some beautiful Paul Hick sculps for Battle of little Bighorn that I am trying to get onto the field. Might fiddle with Song of Muskets and tomahawks or Men who would be Kings, but not sold on either of them.

[@iannicholson5107]

@@CryHavocWarGaming God I love this hobby not least because I understood everything you were talking about. I couldn't quite like the Tomahawks game or The Men who would be Kings. The great regret of my life, apart from Spurs not winning the league since 1961, is that I have never found the perfect English Civil War rules. For God's sake I found an Irish woman to love which is supposed to be difficult if not impossible but the ECW has escaped me. Maybe we are damned, which I have often suspected, but a man who ceases to adventure is paradoxically lost. I enjoy your site and appreciate the work that goes into it. Women and wargames both of which I love, well one in particular, both begin with the letter W. Coincidence? I think not. I am joking by the way. Thanks for the Western rules suggestion. One of the great icons of English wargaming, Donald Featherstone, who I had the great joy of meeting at a show years ago, used to report Wild West skirmish games in Wargamers Newsletter in the sixties. A lot of people were enjoying the summer of love in 68. We were playing wargames. Who's laughing now?

[@CryHavocWarGaming]

@@iannicholson5107 Featherstone's skirmish book was a lot of fun several years ago