I’m with Jon on this. Definitely yes. You mentioned one big advantage Lee - trying out different rules. Another is to tweak the scenario and any scenario specific rules to hit that sweet spot: representing the battle as it largely was (as far as you can in a bloodless game!) whilst providing a game that gives both sides a reasonable chance. Many historical battles present severe hurdles to this - set the clock running too early and the historical winners don’t stand a chance; set it too late and the other side don’t stand a chance. And then some battles are just so inherently interesting, with many options to the opposing sides, that they bear revisiting to see what happens if you do X rather than Y. Sorry, this went on a bit! Chris/Nundanket
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Is there value in refighting the same historical battle? Absolutely!
ReplyDeleteI’m with Jon on this. Definitely yes. You mentioned one big advantage Lee - trying out different rules.
ReplyDeleteAnother is to tweak the scenario and any scenario specific rules to hit that sweet spot: representing the battle as it largely was (as far as you can in a bloodless game!) whilst providing a game that gives both sides a reasonable chance. Many historical battles present severe hurdles to this - set the clock running too early and the historical winners don’t stand a chance; set it too late and the other side don’t stand a chance.
And then some battles are just so inherently interesting, with many options to the opposing sides, that they bear revisiting to see what happens if you do X rather than Y.
Sorry, this went on a bit!
Chris/Nundanket