Inter War

A long time ago I purchased a couple of boxes each of the Revell WW1 French and Germans simply as an excuse to buy the fantastic Revell WW2 German artillery set, with vague notions of WW1 skirmish action. These sat unopened and undisturbed for years with a little reinforcement by Emhar, until a combination of the novels of Alan Furst, Beevor’s book on the Spanish Civil War, the appearance of ‘A Very British Civil War’ and some fantastic sets of plastics (one by Pegasus and two by Caesar) produced an unstoppable momentum towards gaming the interwar period. Hät provided the hallmark of the era: useless tanks, Italeri chipped in with German motorcycles just begging for conversion, and my ‘Furst Wars’ project was born. ImagiNations are courtesy of a well known Belgian reporter.

(A brief aside on the insanity of the wargamer. If I were a military modeller I would have just purchased a box of the Revell artillery, used it to build a diorama or two, and then moved on to other things. As a wargamer, I have required umpteen additional boxes of figures, suitable terrain, rules and that’s before anything hits the table, let alone the artillery….)

I wanted this period to give me something a little different in terms of scale and feel, especially once I had embarked on the whole WWII thing at platoon level. Not seeing any rules that hit that particular spot, I tried writing my own, but simply proved to myself that it’s harder than it looks. So, given the apparent infinite adaptability of Chain of Command, I decided to use that as a base chassis and simply upscale figures to bases of 3-4 figures and see how it flowed. These games will act as the playtest, so expect a few changes. Reflecting the Too Fat Lardies’ love of the acronym, they will be called Chain Of Command UPscaled.

This period is indispensable for those scenarios involving trains but will get used elsewhere too: 2, 13, 14.