Friday 7 August 2020

Cornered Wolf my rule choice for Chechen war

 Been ill recently so not got much done ,so decided just to talk about the rules we are going to use for our Chechen game.Cornered Wolf by T Jensen a simple set designed to represent the chaos of the street fights in Grozny ,I got them from the wargames Vault print on demand shop .They stand at just over 20 pages and have some nice looking systems , First is the game size you decide if you want a small ,medium or large game ,roll aD6 then add a fixed number and thats your units for the game ,your opponent does the same so you swhould end up with a slight difference in units involved ,for exampl a medium game gives you D6+5units so anywhere between 6 and 11 units .Next using astandard deck of cards you work out what each unit consists of for example a jack would give the Soviets a Shilka tthe same card would give the Chechens 4 soldiers with small arms.Each unit acts on the turn of aplaying card ,but each card represents a number of troop types ,a Red (russian ) card will activate anumber of troops and or a vehicle ,so if you pull a red 7 the Russian player can move 4 infantry men ,this can be afull group of 4 or 2 groups of 2 or 4 men from a 7 man unit ,these choices can cause issues later ,if you pull a joker it triggers an event which can be friendly fire ,ammo shortages or bad weather amongst other things.There are no scenarios but you can choose objectives for your missions such as destroy vehicles caoture abuilding all of which give you victory points .Both myself and John my regular opponent have been really enthusiastic about these rules ,hopefully we will get to play them soon.



3 comments:

  1. It is an interesting looking rule set. I've bought and read it but not hada game yet. I'll be interested to see what you do with it.

    What scale will you be plaing in?

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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    1. 28mm empress miniatures the old red star range

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  2. Glad you like the look of the rules - hope you get a game in soon!

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