Stop teasing us and get your camera out - we want pictures !

For mass battles, we're playing Iron Cow 2103.  I really am hooked on that rule set.  Simple, but not overly so.  And the rules are clean enough that if you want to add some home guidelines of your own, it's really easy to make them mesh  8)   (IE -- I wrote up some rules for attacking static defenses).

For skirmish level stuff, I've been playtesting Todd's Wardogs rules -- and it's well suited to playing a smaller battle with no more than 12-20 vehicles a side, where as in Iron Cow the ideal game looks to involve about 40 or more per side

(although I think a full blown "Army" of several platoons would get a bit effort-intensive because you'd end up pushing 70+ around per side).

If I can get a decent digital, I'll send i pics.  I'm finalizing my CDSU guards unit.  I broke from the unofficial paint scheme with them.  A flat grey hull for the tanks, with gunmetal gun barrels, steel plating on that grating along the bank, and  black tiger striping for camo -- looks neat, especially when, because they're  a GUARDS unit and are dismissing the whole concept of hiding, they've painted their grav skirts solid red.  Nice revolutionary colors 

I said "f--- it" and bought one of those disposable digital cameras from the local CVS Pharmacy this morning.  So sometime in the next few days I'll have some photos of my 6mm  stuff for folks to see     .... look for it by Wednesday.

I HAVE to let you guys see the finished Giap anti-grav scout vehicles.  They're a little fiddly to assemble, but holy crap, does the finished product look nice.  I got it with the dark grey base, black camo pattern, with gunmetal weapon barrels and a "glass" cockpit higlighted in the same fashion as my Aeronef minis.  The elevated stand for the thing is tilted/slanted forward, which gives the impression of speed!  Nice. 

As for Assault Corps, I got the playtest pack because I figured it might be well suited for BIG battles, but haven't really read all the way through it, yet.

I'm going to add a little to this   Justin's right in that Wardogs was intended as a beer n pretzels type game and it has evolved somewhat due to a lot of input from folks on the forum...though while the intent was to allow a dozen or so units per side to run easily it was not, and isn't, a hardcore type wargame. 

AC (from what I've read through of Justin's rules) takes much more of the command, troop morale, and such into consideration than Wardogs ever will without being setting or scenario specific. (which to me is the difference between a hardcore wargame and a simple one. )

So what we haveis two really good games in development that provide a good coverage of the play level for gamers.    (Matt's not the only one using Brigade mini's for armored units either)

For the record, the command and troop morale rules consist of rolling 2 dice for initiative.  One for the unit's commander, and one for the unit's morale/training level.

The highest rolling unit goes first.

Some units have a command/control/communications die which they can devote to any one unit on their side to add to that initiative roll.

I'm just trying to dispel some misconceptions people seem to have that AC is some kind of convoluted mysterious system. 

From my own observations, Wardogs seems to be the game with more  complex 'detail' and nitty gritty 'guts' to it...with lock on rolls and signatures and what-have-you.  That, to me, says hardcore wargaming.

lol.  To each their own.

JP