WSS112 - It Ain't Half Hot Mum

I, I guess we should, okay? So yeah, roll the ticker tape and let's see what's at Bowers Wheelers.

Okay.

First off is Tabletop Teasers 2.

This is by, um, Charles S.

Grant and is available from Pottersfield Press.

Charles has returned to skirmish gaming, um, and, um, he's basically retired his Refighting History volumes 1 to 12.

Uh, he thinks they've run their course, and he's now doing quick and easy wargaming scenarios.

I'll describe the first three of the 10 just to give you a rough idea of what to expect.

The first one is of the rescue, a relief force saving an attacked farm.

The second one is the Battle of Eynenbrook, two opposing forces fight over a river crossing.

And the third one, a blocking position, is basically a force trying to stop an enemy landing.

Each of these comes with, um, full OOBs, full generic OOBs I should say, for red forces and blue forces.

And also, there are photos of how the games played out for each scenario, which I thought was unique and interesting.

If it's red versus blue, what is in the photos?

Not red versus blue, because there's blue French and blue Ottomans in at least one scenario.

I mean, how, how generic are these scenarios?

Well, I think it does mention in the beginning you could adapt them to World War II, or you could adapt them to other periods, but effectively you're given orders of battle, um, objectives, and maps, and also some suggestions about campaigns.

Yeah.

Yeah, pretty-

You, you could adapt them, but they're set in-

Well, most of it is horse-and-musket period set, but they could be adapted.

Right.

Which is the ki- kind of the wooly way of saying it, I think, because, you know, you could adapt anything really.

I mean, you could adapt Trivial Scrabble to playing the Battle of the Bulge.

Wouldn't work so well, but, um, you never know.