Speed Play Rules

7/11/2019

The Little Wars TV crew recently played the entire 3-day Gettysburg scenario in a single afternoon, and playing that size engagement with seven players can be daunting. They required a faster version of the game and I set out to design one for this purpose. My design priorities were twofold: (1) Cut the time required to play a large, multi-day battle in half; (2) Keep the core game mechanics intact.

Both priorities are satisfied in the new speed play rules available now. I made a short video explaining how the variant works and what the changes are, but you can download a free copy of this one-page supplement right here on the website. It's under the Free Downloads section, and the PDF link also appears below.

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2 Comments

Andy Fuller

10/24/2019 01:12:27 am

Bit late finding this one Greg, but many thanks for the download. I would like to try this one day at the club, and possibly even at a show.

Andy Lamkowski

6/4/2020 04:16:08 am

Hi Greg, Looking forward to giving these a try. My little group came up with a variant about a year ago when we fought a Gettysburg variant based on Pipe Creek using the whole of the Gettysburg orbat plus some additional cavalry. They worked well and we got a result in the day. We'd previously found that because it was difficult to beak units players went HQ hunting. So we simply broke units when they had 3 fatigue markers. To compensate for that we also modified the rally table so that units broke on 0-3 and rallied on 5+. The amendments seemed to work well as the Confederates achieved a resounding victory within the time frame. Of course this may have had something to do with the ineptness of the 3 Union Commanders that included myself!

All the best

Andy L

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