Saturday 12 August 2017

First Squad Wars Play-tests

This week saw the inaugural play-test games for Squad Wars, using a mix of minis from mine and Brummie's growing G.I. Joe collections. My initial feeling was that a lot of things worked as I hoped and a few things need tweaking, which is all good.

We managed both a small and a medium sized game in less than three and half hours, which is without having played the game before and so I it felt it was fairly speedy overall, all things considered. That time included making a couple of cups of tea and stopping to have discussions about whether or not certain things worked to create a satisfying game-play feel, so ultimately probably closer to three hours or less in total for the two games played.

The games helped identify a few issues to fix - nothing fundamental but certain special rules and how they can be applied differently to improve the experience.

Brummie was really supportive and kindly gave feedback and insights, as well as noting the log of changes to be made and also took two of the pictures in this post (thanks very much mate!).

I wish I had taken more pics myself but I was understandably focused on the games themselves and talking Brummie through my ethos for certain design choices. I opted away from making a Battle Report at this stage as the key thing is getting the fundamentals right in terms of using time well.

Anyway, suffice to say, it feels on the right track of what I want and I hope to get more Squad Wars gaming in with Joes versus Cobra before too long.

12 comments:

  1. Delighted to see "Squad Wars" on the tabletop, PulpCitizen. The minis look awesome in the photos, and from the sound of things the rules seem to be working out too. Keep it going, and when a copy of the rules is available for print I'll expect a signed copy ;-)

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    1. Cheers Blaxkleric. :)

      Simon supplied most of the minis on the night, so big thanks to him. :)

      As for print, that will be a print on demand thing and hopefully Squad Wars will be available before the end of the year. :)

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  2. Very interesting game. Thanks for the photos too :)
    best regards

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  3. It worked well and was a lot of fun. Time to try out all those cards :D

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    1. Cheers mate - big thanks to you. :)

      We definitely need to get many more games in! :)

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  4. The big question here of course is "who got to play the Joe's, and did they win the day!!"

    Looks fantastic by the way, and yes you should have taken more pictures ;-)

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Cheers Roger. :)

      I got to play Joes for both games, and they won despite casualties on both sides. :)

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  5. Hmmmm ... one wonders if Sir Brummie and Sir Puplcitizen were singing GI Joe at the top of their lungs as they played out the tabletop scenario ;)

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    1. Thanks FourEyedMonster - the world was spared our singing! :)

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  6. Great stuff, the pictures of the game really show you had a great time!

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    1. The games flowed as I hoped the rules would allow, so for me that was enjoyable more than the outcomes. :)

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