Thus it was that I found myself hosting a Skype call with six players located in Sheffield, Derbyshire and London.
I had decided to run the Stalingrad game written some years ago by Tom Mouat as this is a fairly simple military/political game on a familiar campaign. I printed the map onto a dozen sheets of A4 card and to represent the military units I dug out toys in what I hoped would be a truly offensive* variety of scales.
Last night we played through five of the nine turns, with part two to follow this evening.
The roles and (carefully cast) players are:
Hitler - Martin
Stalin - Jerry
Von Paulus - Simon
Chuikov - Bertrand
Hube - Tim C
Tarasov - Richard
The map at half time, with the front line marked in red.
* 1/32, 1/48, 1/72, 1/144, 1/300. So far.
8 comments:
Looks super.
Must try this with the group.
Is this the same TomMouat who did the D&D matrix game? Do you know if that's available anywhere too?
Tim,
What a great idea, and one that suits itself on distance play.
I look forward to reading the next instalment.
All the best,
Bob
Looks like it was great fun Tim.
Cheers,
Pete.
Duc de Gobin
I don’t remember a D&D MG, but then Tom is a prolific game designer so he may well have done one.
Bob Cordery
Having proved the concept, as it were, with email all those years ago I was pleased at how well this worked with Skype.
Pete
Now that we know it works, there’ll be more.....
Thanks for the inspiration. I will try to get my lot enthused.
Are you using tactical rules for combat resolution or is everything part of the matrix game?
Balagan
I resolved the combats using opposed dice rolls, taking into account any previously successful arguments. For for example, an early argument from the Fuhrer resulted in German units getting a +1 on the dice. Bear in mind that the entire game only consumed about 3 hours of playing time!
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