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LINE OF DEPARTURE ONLINE FEATURES SUPPLEMENTS AND PLAYER'S AIDS EDITED BY JIM WERBANETH
Italian Warships for Command at Sea August 20, 2009 Gary Greenhalgh returns to the Command at Sea system yet again, with a set of nine data sheets for Italian destroyers, destroyer escorts, and torpedo boats. Today's installment includes:
DD Turbine
Dutch Warships for Command at Sea August 19, 2009 Naval miniatures supplements are back, again thanks to Gary Greenhalgh. This time, he turns his attention to the Royal Netherlands Navy, in Command at Sea from Clash of Arms. The ships covered are: CL
De Ruyter
British and Austrian Cruisers and Old Battleships for Fear God and
Dread Nought Originally Published April 17, 2007 Here we have, for the first big addition of 2007, more excellent work from Gary Greenhalgh. He really outdid himself this time, adding numerous cruisers and predreadnought battleships to the Fear God & Dread Nought miniatures rules from Clash of Arms. This time he presents them arranged in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, organizing the ship classes one per sheet. For those who do not have access to Excel, they should open with the spreadsheet application to OpenOffice. That package's great advantage is that is is a free download. Four of the spreedsheets contain the ship data.
The fifth is a template that players can use to build their own datasheets.
New American Capital Ships for Command at Sea
Alternate Counters for The Big Red One
Auxiliary Aircraft Counters for Richtofen's War Originally Published November 26, 2006 The top project is another set of ship data sheets by my friend Gary Greenhalgh, for Command at Sea. He gives us two ships of the US Navy in World War II, the battlecruisers Alaska and Guam, and the cancelled battleships of the Montana class. Two others are artwork by Paul Rohrbaugh, prolific game
designer and developer, and and until recently the staff developer for
Against the Odds magazine.
He contributes a new set of counters for SPI's Big Red One microgame on
the Battle of the Bulge; it duplicates the old one, but with art that meets
the standards of today instead of the less colorful work from when the game
was published. In addition, he provides new counters for the auxiliary
aircraft in the Battle Manual to Richtofen's War, Avalon Hill's air
combat game from about thirty years ago.
New British and Japanese Ships for Command at Sea
Dreadnoughts & Battlecruisers Gun Range Chart Originally Published June 20, 2005 The first project here is the work of Gary Greenhalgh, one of my oldest friends in wargaming, and probably the finest naval gamer I know. He contributes two projects here, one a variant for gunnery ranges in Dreadnoughts & Battlecruisers from Minden Games, and the other new British and Japanese warships for the Command at Sea miniatures rules from Clash of Arms. These rank among the very best submissions I've received for either the website or the print edition of Line of Departure; I chose the former option so that as many people as possible can enjoy them as soon as possible. In addition, the range chart for
Dreadnoughts & Battlecruisers is rendered in two media. One is the
pdf format that we all know and love, readable on any platform but static.
The other is an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. This is readable in Excel,
Microsoft Works or, for those outside the Wintel world or who just have other
financial needs than to give money to Bill Gates,
OpenOffice, a
free and open source rival to Microsoft Office. I've found it almost
entirely compatible with Excel.
Supplementary Rules to Streets of Stalingrad's Third Edition Originally Published May 6, 2003 Last week, the new issue
of Line of Departure’s
print edition led off with a review of the third edition of Streets of Stalingrad, published by
L2 Design Group. As per my
normal practice, I sent a copy to the designer, Dana Lombardy, for his
response. He was kind enough to send me
more than just an answer to the review; more than that, he sent supplementary
rules, adding a provision for accelerated close assault, and mandated
retreats by units defeated in terrain away from the urban center.
Attack From March Rule for Campaigns of the French Foreign Legion
Originally Published July 5, 2000 Campaigns of the French Foreign Legion appeared in
Issue 200 of
Strategy & Tactics magazine. It is actually three games on French colonial
wars in Subsequent to publication,
designer (and S&T editor) Joseph Miranda concluded that some
players on an anti-French side could win by dispersing their forces,
compelling the French to run them down, a task that often takes longer than
the game, therefore assuring an unnaturally easy victory. With that in mind, Miranda
drew up optional rules for attacking from march, a kind of mobile assault or
overrun. Then, in order to reach as
many gamers as possible, he offered it to me for publication here.
Player's Aids and Tracks for Clash of Eagles: Borodino and Friedland Originally Published August 9, 1999
Line of Departure's long-standing
commitment to presenting player's aids and boardgame charts is represented
here, commencing with charts for the The games
utilize the tried and true Napoleon's
Last Battles system, and are eminently playable as-is. However, |
