Play Testing + October Plans

It doesn't look like much, but the picture below is a demonstration of one way I play test without going through the trouble of setting up a full table.

Two platoons of Germans assault a Soviet MG position, variously treated as cover and really really hard cover, i.e. a pillbox, across open ground.

In the above picture, I'm checking the relative weight of an MG vs infantry stands (in this case a single infantry figure represents a squad/section for the sake of testing). It was pointed out to me that in G Company, the MGs might be worth at least two infantry stands for designing your own scenarios. As I had been relying on someone else's fairly balanced scenarios, this issue hadn't happened on my table.

Because I didn't get out my cloth and terrain, and used figures at hand (the Germans were right there on the painting table), setup time was minimal and I could leave it setup because this small grid barely takes up any space on my desk, as opposed to taking up most of the kitchen table.

Admittedly, the squares were cramped and fitting two squads and a PL into one square required a stretch of the imagination - I could have used paper counters just as easily, but I wanted to see what using a single figure for a squad felt like. In any case, I was able to play more than a dozen games in order to see how things might work out and was also able to try different variations (adding a second MG, adding an MG to the attacker, etc.).

Expect to see the both sets of rules updated and available for download by the end of October.

Speaking of...

Plans for October:

• Finish painting those eight Germans in the above picture.
• Tweak, test, and make available the next version of G Company and Company Fire (I am considering combining them into a single document containing both rule sets, rather than pointing players of G Company to see Company Fire for terrain rules, for example. If you have strong feelings either way, please let me know!)
• Since Halloween is this month, watch some weird WWII movies - you know, the kind where there are supernatural elements inserted into the WWII era. Usually these take the form of some kind of Nazi occult experiment.