Re: NEW WARGAMES CLUB ????? (Trowbridge, Wiltshire)

Posted by Vlad The Impala on Oct 28, 2012; 10:47am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/NEW-WARGAMES-CLUB-Trowbridge-Wiltshire-tp7578968p7579001.html

Its a campaign based modification of the Lord of the Rings ruleset to allow you to play out skirmish scenarios from The Three Musketeers - originally published in one of the wargames magazines (I forget which).

There are three factions - Kings Musketeers, Cardinals Guard, and Gentilhommes. Instead of Might/Will/Fate models have Faith and Panache stats which do the same thing (Musketeers can't gain Faith, Cardinals Guard can't gain Panache, Gentilhommes can get low scores in both but its hard for them to get either very high). A typical band uses up to a dozen models, usually consisting of 3 or 4 heroes plus their retainers.

I've never run it as a campaign, but I've played a few one off games based on scenes from the books and it seems to work. Then again there are quite a few "historical" variants of LotR out there for different periods all of which do the job pretty well.