How to Command Successfully in BCS games | Battle Combat Series

[@WARdROBEPlaysWWII]

Good lord man! Amazing work.

[@RvTWargames]

I aim to please 😊

[@craigfoster5470]

This is the first video of yours I’ve seen. I’m frankly stunned by the qualitative difference in your thinking to every other such video I’ve seen. This feels like a War College class. I’m very impressed, and I’m sure these will be very helpful as I did into BCS. Frankly, you’ve given me some incentive as well. I feel BCS will have the kind of challenges I’m looking for. Thank you!

[@RvTWargames]

Thank you, Craig. What a lovely thing to say. It was fascinating to put together and helped me fall deeper in love with the system. Keenly waiting for Valley of Tears to come out (when I'll re-watch my own videos to help brush up on my own BCS skills as I've been playing quite a bit of OCS this spring and summer).

[@craigfoster5470]

@RvTWargames I just bought Valley of Tears too, tho that will be over my head for a while. In the mean time, I look forward to digging into your videos as I learn the system. Heck, I enjoy watching them just for the "War College" analysis. :)

[@RvTWargames]

@@craigfoster5470 I hope you've managed to get your head around VoT and enjoyed BCS more widely. I'm going to throw myself into it in March when I have a week long gaming session with friends booked.

[@rollobaker2031]

very nice and thorough evaluation of play geared to the demands of the BCS rule set---agree with your emphasis on tempo and figuring the odds of activation---especially enjoyed the 7th Arm Div and the choices to be made--- you nailed it with comment on redesigning Div composition--thanx

[@RvTWargames]

Thanks Rollobaker, always good to hear that my thoughts chime with your experiences.

[@thomasbandy]

Love your BCS videos, they've helped me so much with getting used to the system.

[@RvTWargames]

And I make them precisely for you, and everyone likes you (including me) who knew there was something great about BCS but struggled a bit to get on to of it. Thanks, Thomas.

[@lynnbrower4244]

Very good video with a useful analysis of the Command features of BCS.

[@RvTWargames]

Thanks Lynn, with your depth of knowledge I appreciate the comment!

[@normstewart546]

Once again, very nicely conceived and presented. Keep doing them if you can.

[@RvTWargames]

Thank you, Stewart. I always felt BCS was miss named as it is the formation, primarily Division, that is really the main focus of the game.

[@CptEggman]

I like your way of speaking. What a great video!

[@RvTWargames]

My dear Dutch mother, who came to England to learn English and ended up staying, was always insistent that I spoke "properly" would be very pleased 😊

[@waroftherats]

very nice videos!

[@RvTWargames]

Glad you enjoyed them.

[@leroiarouf1142]

Very nice guide ;)

[@RvTWargames]

Thank you, Le Roi arouf. Glad you liked it.

[@mindbomb9341]

In BCS, does it exhaust your troops to just sit there and defend? Or is this exhaustion only as a result of "activating to attack"?

[@RvTWargames]

There is no chance of attrition if you don't do any major attacks or don't have a second activation.

[@mindbomb9341]

How does this BCS system handle night?

[@RvTWargames]

Turns are a day long. Night isn't explicitly modelled at this scale. Do don't get to chose whether an activation is at night or during the day. Most attacks start in the dark and then exploit during day. But deciding when is a tactical decision below the granularity of operating divisions and brigades.

[@mindbomb9341]

@@RvTWargames I think I will be picking up Kasserine or Arracourt today in no small part because of your excellent videos. These will at least fit on my tabletop here at home.

[@RvTWargames]

I recommend Kasserine as a great intro game into the system.

[@RvTWargames]

Have a great time with it, and thanks.

[@HistoricalConflict]

I triple dog dare ya to play Command Modern Operations on PC. That game breaks every wargame genius. Mainly because I cant grok it

[@RvTWargames]

I'm intimidated just reading the description on Steam. The fact it has professional and academic versions makes me feel I should be playing this 5 days a week as my day job! Obviously Slithering/Matric games are 100% my wheelhouse. I'll be to checkout some videos. See if it doesn't make sense to me too.

[@RvTWargames]

BTW, are you not on Discord? I couldn't see a @GamerHudson. I'm @rvtwargames Otherwise you can reach me at [e-mail]

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

OK, so, I know you are wearing a scarf, but... in the thumbnail, the color of your skin and the scarf is identical. So, when I saw it on my watchlist, it didn't look like you were an officer/or WW1 pilot, but instead, were challenging The Rock in the "thick neck" competition. ;p

[@RvTWargames]

It may have been a COLD day at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford airfield, watching an air display and my wife giggling a lot when she made me wear the RAF cap, so that's me camping it up! If The Rock thinks he can get lucky, bring it on!