
Solo Wargaming
A Practitioner's Guide
David Heading(Author)
Pen & Sword Military (Publisher)
Published on 13. June 2024
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-3990-5553-6 (ISBN)
Description
This practitioner's guide to solo wargaming offers comprehensive coverage of the subject, showing how it can be a fascinating complement to social gaming or an entire hobby in its own right. This book integrates ideas from across the hobby to discuss various aspects of gaming alone across all manner of conflicts, whether land, sea or air and in any historical period or imagined setting.
Starting with the fundamental question of why people play solo wargames, David Heading lays out the various advantages and disadvantages. He also considers such questions as whether to 'play both sides' or to command one army against an 'automatic' opponent, giving various ideas on how to control or programme the responses of the opposing force with dice, cards or by other means. There is advice on how to construct challenging and interesting scenarios for one-off engagements, whether these are skirmishes or major battles, historical events or more generic ones, and how to combine these tactical actions into wider campaigns, involving grand strategy, logistics and other factors. Tips on sustaining interest through such activities as recording results, writing campaign diaries and online blogs will help you enrich your hobby. The author has been playing solo wargames for forty years and shares the secrets of happy solo gaming. Packed full of common-sense advice and inspiration, it offers plenty of value to the beginner and the seasoned veteran alike.
Starting with the fundamental question of why people play solo wargames, David Heading lays out the various advantages and disadvantages. He also considers such questions as whether to 'play both sides' or to command one army against an 'automatic' opponent, giving various ideas on how to control or programme the responses of the opposing force with dice, cards or by other means. There is advice on how to construct challenging and interesting scenarios for one-off engagements, whether these are skirmishes or major battles, historical events or more generic ones, and how to combine these tactical actions into wider campaigns, involving grand strategy, logistics and other factors. Tips on sustaining interest through such activities as recording results, writing campaign diaries and online blogs will help you enrich your hobby. The author has been playing solo wargames for forty years and shares the secrets of happy solo gaming. Packed full of common-sense advice and inspiration, it offers plenty of value to the beginner and the seasoned veteran alike.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Illustrations
10 mono illustrations; 10 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3990-5553-6 (9781399055536)
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08/2024
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Person
David Heading has been wargaming for more than forty years and almost all of that time has wargamed solo. He runs a blog, Polemarch (ancientrules.blogspot.com), which covers his wargaming activities, games, campaigns, and ideas (as well as progress reports on painting). He co-authored the Polemos English Civil War rules and wrote Polemos: SPQR, both published by Baccus6mm. He has also written a number of articles for Miniature Wargames, Lone Warrior, and Arqubusier magazines.