ROMMEL'S BRIGADES - Juno Beach Scenario 1 - Queens Own Rifles

Miniatures.
That sounds like a fun game ! :D

I’ve thought about this myself. If you’re fighting some minor back-and-forth land battle, or sending some aircraft to sink a stray enemy ship, you don’t want to break out the miniatures for stuff like that. But if there’s an epic land or sea battle, then that’s exactly the time to break out the miniatures!

Maybe there could be a house rule about this. If each side in a battle has at least 100 TUV present, then miniatures are used. Otherwise, the battle is resolved without them. (TUV = total unit value. If I have 12 IPCs’ worth of infantry and 20 IPCs worth of tanks in a battle, my TUV present is 12 + 20 = 32.)

When miniatures are being used, I think that it makes sense to give three miniatures points for every one point of TUV. Also, that TUV shouldn’t be regarded as a lump sum, but should be divided into categories: escort ships, capital ships, carriers, subs, fighters, etc. I wouldn’t object if a few leftover points were used on out-of-category units. For example, let’s say I have 50 points to spend on capital ships; but the capital ship I intend to buy costs 48 points. That gives me two leftover points which can be transferred to something out of category. When building my force, I should be allowed to spend no more than 15 points out of category.

These are thoughts which occur to me off the top of my head. I’d be interested to hear more from those who have thought more deeply about this; or who have field tested it.

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I was always suprised that each nation wasn’t given a medic unit, whether it be a vehicle or a infantry unit.

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Liger       200
Germany    1947
Tank
Speed 6          Soldiers  10/15/20
Defense 9/9   Vehicles 25/22/20

Special Abilities:
Advanced Camouflage – Cover rolls succeed at 6 or less.
Extended Range – Units long-range attack is 30 hexes.
Turbine Engine – Unit may make a second move after Combat is conducted.
105mm Quad Main Gun – Unit may make 4 attacks in each combat round.
Molten Metal Hyper Cannon – Unit may attack any number of units in a strait line.
Fear of God – All enemy units within 10 hexes of this Unit immediately surrender.

The Liger Tank was a project nearing completion at wars end.  It was named for the mythical animal breed for it’s magical abilities. The Liger Tank was Hitler’s last secret weapon and destined to change the outcome of the war.  The project was so secret however that the armored division ear-marked to take the tanks into battle was not allowed to know the location of the factory and therefore the tanks never made it into combat.

Looks like an interesting unit. :) Do you have a link I can use to learn more about this tank? I tried a Google search, and the first result was your post! :P

Thanks for all the nice and positive words

Makes doing projects like this even more worthwhile and fun.

Covering Fire: Is only allowed if the attacking unit (BAR or Bren) is not disrupted.

I think I prefer recosting or banning over changing abilities. It makes the record keeping easier.

Hi gang,

Welcome to the new forum for use with the Rommel’s Brigades Rules.

This forum is going to be the official Q&A area for questions on the new Advanced rules, as well as the new community site for people who want more information and updates on the game.

As most of you know AAM is a great system, but with many broken rules and abilities. In order to rectify the problems I have taken my own miniatures rules and converted them to make a better game, which can be used with the AAM units if you wish a more advanced and detailed system to play with.

Rommel’s Brigades is an open and more historical set of rules, with more common sense approach to using 1/144 scale WWII miniatures sets.

Over the coming days I will put up links to the new maps, rules, counters and brigade cards so that people can access and download them. The base website and the Mirror for it are below. Check back next week and you will find much that is new and interesting there.

“http://www.geocities.com/opmgames/RHR/index.html”

MIRROR

“http://www.geocities.com/opmgames2/RHR/index.html”

If you have any questions or are wondering what its all about then feel free to post here and I will check in once or twice a day to answer them for you.

Cheers