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Army Organization Headaches

Sometimes I think wargames are too simplistic in how the players have perfect command over every individual in their army. Be it in games with alternating activations or ones that uses IGYG, the commander (in this case the player) have perfect communication that can give pin-point instructions to all their subordinates. So below are some "Army Organization Headaches" that I think very interesting to try out. In this particular example I am going to use OnePageRules as the basis. Lion/Dragon/Xenos Rampant: Addition of a "Command Phase", which happens before the normal gameplay phase that I am going to call "Activation Phase". At the beginning of every round, in this "Morale Phase", mark all units that are in the hybrid or the melee unit types (see the solo/co-op rules) and is in melee range of an enemy unit AND - OR  in range of a melee charge from an enemy unit that has been marked in the previous procedure. Starting with the player that have the...

Crossfire in the 41st millenium

Crossfire using 40k miniatures units.  Should be able to be played using Epic Armageddon miniatures. This has not been playtested at all, just some musing I thought and can't help but write out somewhere. In particular Everything here would need points assigned for armybuilding. For starters, the guardsmen (and their chaos equivalent) are the baseline humans and thus play identically like the original crossfire ww2 factions. All of them operates like the british, in that stands can only move if they are in LoS of their PC. Also using more dice for shooting. This makes combat deadlier for the baseline humans but balanced a bit for the tougher stuff. Default for rifle is 4, LMG and SMG 6. Now here's the spicy stuff, everything is the same as vanilla game, with the addition of: Optional alternate way to operate, if you can't or rather not use PCs for your infantry, make it so that stands that previously required LoS to PC to move now requires to be within LoS of each other of ...