Modern Times Revised

One of the constants over the years has been micro armour gaming and the depiction of the hypothetical clashes of the major nuclear superpowers.

So many of us spent our youth trying to get our heads around detailed OrBats and TO&Es or simply fathoming out the sometimes overwhelming mechanics of rules for the period. In fact, you spent more time looking at charts than actually playing. Even in the 90s with the Command Decision rules, you could be left scratching your head whilst your armoured divisions sat immobile.

 

 

But you always knew that when you put American Vs Soviet forces on the table, you were going to have one hell of a fight.

So, I was interested to hear on the grapevine that the companies producing the most popular rules for the period have now collectively agreed to meet behind closed doors to discus a unilateral re-grading of Russian units in their lists, following the recent lack of performance by those same forces in the real world. The plan is to reissue all relevant sourcebooks.

For the gamer this will mean another financial burden as they are obliged to spend more of their hard earned money on yet more background material.

You would have thought that it would make more sense to do things the old way and simply issue a corrections sheet, to be pasted into existing books, but I guess that in these days of glossy, large books, nobody wants to spend time with scissors and a Pritt stick, or a bottle of Tippex and a decent Bic biro.

How times have changed...

It remains to be seen if this downgrading will affect the interest in the period, but we will know, when we begin to see a flood of Russian armies being offered on auction sites.

 

 

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