I have been toying with what to use for generating battles in this little corner of nowhere. Initially I imagine I'll probably do some narrative gaming ala GW and their ladder campaigns. What I'd eventually like to do, however, is develop a set of rules that will allow me to generate campaign battles.  

I am currently looking at the following sources for ideas:
 

• Soldier Kings by GDW (now only available in second hand markets)
• Warlord (a much older game... you've probably never heard of it!)
• Friedrich from Rio Grande Games
• Wargames Campaigns by Grant
• Age of Reason rules 2nd edition
• a smattering of board games I have played over (ouch!) 35+ years....

What I am looking for is something that generates battles with a purpose. I don't want to use a campaign system that forces me to be a combination G1 and G4. Been there, done that when I was in the army. Necessary work and pivotal to successful military operations, but not a lot of fun! I also don't want to have to write movement orders or calculate pass times (the amount of time it takes for a unit of a given size to move through a checkpoint) or write operations orders. So in a nutshell, here's some of the design parameters I plan on using -
 

• point to point movement or hex-based movement
• simplified logistics rules, involving depots, their generation and movement, and lines of supply of units to them
• no attrition of unit strengths, just tracking their strength in gross terms (full, 1/2 strength, or sent to the rear for rebuilding and recruiting)
• use of characters to give a lot of flavor to the mess
• something that will handle big battalions (on the scales used by Grant, Young, et al.)
• rules that will be no longer than 4-6 pages and involve minimal bookkeeping but lots of journal entries about campaigns, battles, and people

I'll start posting some of my ideas as I go in the hopes that I can get some comments (both editorial and from the cheap seats!)

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