Fast Rules
My desire to see a new edition of Fast Rules came out of my disenchantment with many contemporary rulesets. I remembered fondly of Fast...
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Bill Owen
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
MGs
While working on Tractics for over a year now, I have 890 emails on corrections, changes, and updates. From those and several phone...
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Bill Owen
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Why Tractics?
Tractics: Is a Reference work: hundreds of AFVs, guns, mortars and small arms. Is a marvel! Consider the excellence of the game's breadth...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
Commercial Wargames and Experiential Learning
One of my wargame friends, David Redpath, shared a short article about wargames and learning that I felt addressed why a game like...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 19, 2021
- 1 min
Making World War II Scenarios
Between fine-tuning the final details on Tractics, Mike Reese occasionally explains rule rationale and gives me links to consider. For...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
Valentines Day: Tractics Testimonials
Tractics is that you really felt like you were commanding individual tanks. All the details in the rules gave you a feeling of each type...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
Do we live simultaneously?
The 5000’ General is waxing philosophical while peering at the battlefield from his light plane. What is time? Noted British wargame...
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Bill Owen
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
Style of Play can make a big difference
In working with Mike Reese for nearly a year on the second edition of Tractics, I have learned about the difference in how he played the...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 24, 2021
- 3 min
Searching for Tractics in those bushes
One thing that made Tractics games so exciting was the hidden set-up. As the player moving on the board (or after setting up hidden...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
Terrain trade-offs
A guy on Facebook asked about the pros & cons of modeling hex terrain. Even my friend, a fine modeler more than a gamer, decided that 4"...
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Bill Owen
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
You are a plankowner!
By reading this, you have boarded SS Combat Rules, the vessel carrying us to new realms and memorable stories. Plankowners are the...
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