Last weekend, I was introduced to a WWI infantry game. I am not looking to get into a new era or start playing a new ruleset, but this looked like a very simple skirmish game which required very few figures (squad level). I always felt that WWI would not offer the best tactical game experience because of the nature of trench warfare. Gabriel, one of our club members, is quite interested in WWI and has done a beautiful job on painting some 28mm figures so I was encouraged to give it a go. I found a pdf of the rulebook which was quite inexpensive and had a quick read through...the rules seemed quite simple. I was not really expecting much but why not give it a go.
Gabriel had 3 sets of figures painted, Germans, French and Brits. They were all nicely painted but the French were quite impressive. I believe most of his figures are from the Scouts Out! digital range, very nice sculpts. We set up a 6 figure aside game and selected one of the scenarios from the rulebook. As the title of the ruleset suggests the scenarios are all of a scouting nature thus are quite tactical in nature. There is really no Command and Control mechanism but each army has some basic National Characteristics, Leaders having the ability to offer adjacent figures a re-roll and each figure's weapon having different characteristics.
As you can see the figures are very nice, it took us about an hour to play the game and this was the first run through for both of us. I have to say it was quite a bit of fun and I would certainly play again. I might even paint a small number of figures to represent Newfoundland's Blue Puttees.
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