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After playing a dozen or so solo fights with CoH I've come to realize something. The game scale is too small for me. I'm going to head over to BGG and do some research, but I thought I'd ask you professional card board junkies.
Throw me some names to some nice platoon level WW2 games.
I :notworthy: to your wisdom and O0 your insight!
Advanced Platoon Leader (https://youtu.be/e4D_mf1QLc0) - first thing that came to mind.
Advanced Platoon Leader
PanzerGrenadier - if you can get around the wonky leader-activation mechanic
LNLP's reboot of the Nations At War series
PanzerBlitz / Panzer Leader
the Death Ride series has German platoons and Russian companies (note: highly detailed)
Memoir '44 is platoon-ish, but maybe too abstract for what you're looking for
Is the War Storm series squad- or platoon-level? Squad, right?
(Valor & Victory is squad level, no?)
LnLP Nations at War is a good system. Easy to learn. Fast paced. They have a West front 44-45 module, an East Front module and a North Africa module.
https://store.lnlpublishing.com/series/nations-at-war-series OR see the ads that come up on here at Grogheads.
Rules are here:
http://forums.lnlpublishing.com/resources/nations-at-war-core-living-rules-final-edition.134/
Plus there's VASSAL modules.
Advanced Platoon Leader is squad level despite the name.
Valor & Victory is squad level.
You guys are the best!!
Has anyone tried Paths to Hell?
I've got it down to 2 systems (after a crap ton of videos and reviews on BGG)
Operation Dauntless
White Star Rising
I was considering Paths to Hell, but I've read quite a few comments about clarity issues with the rules.
Both are good. Op Daunt is more crunchy. NaW is easier to learn.
Quote from: acctingman on October 03, 2017, 09:00:21 AM
You guys are the best!!
Has anyone tried Paths to Hell?
No, but I have the other 2 games in the 'War Storm' series. I like them a lot, and they actually have a decent C&C system. Neat games O0
Thanks Barth! :notworthy:
and you too Bob! :notworthy:
I think the superb "crossfire" maybe bolt action. I only looked at these briefly do a youtube on them, they are 1 squad per fig but they scaleup . crossfire is really interesting no measuring , you go from terrain to terrain and you can keep moving until initative is lost, I know you asked for platoon, you do play platoons bit with a few figs, there are plotoon commanders
Quote from: acctingman on October 03, 2017, 04:03:57 PM
I've got it down to 2 systems (after a crap ton of videos and reviews on BGG)
Operation Dauntless
White Star Rising
I was considering Paths to Hell, but I've read quite a few comments about clarity issues with the rules.
I can't recommend Op Dauntless as a platoon level game. There are plenty of platoons, but the scale is 450 meters and an hour and a half. Also it is about as far from Panzerblitz-style play as you can go and still have lots of tank platoons.
OP Dauntless looks good, but yea, too big for me.
Paths to Hell looks good, as does the Nations to War series.
However, I keep drifting back to Panzer.
Curse my teeny weeny wallet!
Thanks for all the suggestions and comments
Not sure how 'platoon level' you want to get, but War in the Wind (by Compass Games) is platoon/company-level.
Quote from: acctingman on October 04, 2017, 04:58:05 PM
OP Dauntless looks good, but yea, too big for me.
Paths to Hell looks good, as does the Nations to War series.
However, I keep drifting back to Panzer.
Curse my teeny weeny wallet!
Thanks for all the suggestions and comments
Panzer is pretty good -- 100 meter hexes, single tanks are single tanks. I would recommend it except that the base game has such a pointless map. You have to get one of the expansions to get nice Panzerblitz-style geomorphic maps.
Compass Games has the nascent War Storm series that I like better than Avalanche's PzG series. The scale is platoon level.
The biggest difference for me, is that I like the way War Storm deals with leaders over the way PzG does it. Compass Games also fully supports Vassal...a critical factor in my buy decisions. So far the games in the series are:
Paths to Hell: WWII early Eastern Front
A las Barricadas!: Spanish Civil War
La Bataille de France: 1940...Char Bs vs panzers....what fun
There are planned modules for WWII desert, Normandy and a solitaire modules.
For a deeper dive, the series rules are here:
http://www.compassgames.com/downloads/Path_to_Hell_std_rulebook.pdf (http://www.compassgames.com/downloads/Path_to_Hell_std_rulebook.pdf)
Thanks AT
This isn't helping my buying decision :crazy2:
Well, after much deliberation and hmmm'ing and haw'ing I decided to order Panzer.
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.
You'll order the rest of them.
Oh, yes, you will.
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Quote from: BanzaiCat on October 07, 2017, 01:14:44 PM
You'll order the rest of them.
Oh, yes, you will.
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Probably ;)
Quote from: acctingman on October 07, 2017, 01:11:59 PM
Well, after much deliberation and hmmm'ing and haw'ing I decided to order Panzer.
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.
Nice!
Quote from: acctingman on October 07, 2017, 01:11:59 PM
Well, after much deliberation and hmmm'ing and haw'ing I decided to order Panzer.
Good call. It's a great system, both for board and minis gaming.