achine. Its a bit of a blind spot for me so I would have never known! It also reassures me that having rules like that could be a good thing. I’ve run into some issues that might put me off this game before I even get started but we’ll see how things pan out and I’m sure I’ll talk about it more next week. Regardless of that, I appreciate you reading the review and sharing your thoughts as always, John!
Well written review. I looked at KoW and then got wrapped up in Feudal Patrol which I like so there I am. Plus now there’s Wars of Ozz with a coming attraction (WOOD – Wars of Orcs and Dwarves) for bigger battles. I need another 100 years for all this!
This is awesome stuff! Thanks for putting it on my radar.
That was a very informative and thorough review. I had heard of KoW but not Vanguard. I went to Mantic’s website and looked at their free rules of it. While not my type of game it does look interesting but I agree with you in that the scenarios look rather basic. Also like the size of the game board.
It’s funny how some games dominate blogs and websites and others come and go with hardly a whimper. SPQR was like that, usually Warlord Games are picked up and you can find multiple reviews, game plays, etc but I had a hard time doing that with SPQR.
I was the same way. I stumbled across it while looking for other things and it caught my eye. It is more high-fantasy and bombastic compared to MESBG and I probably wouldn’t be interested in both games just because that is a lot from that genre.
You’re absolutely right about some games almost disappear after release or even worse, a few pieces of information about negative experiences or feedback players have about a game are all you can find when you search for that particular game.
Speaking SPQR, I don’t think there’s any details but apparently Warlord is ALREADY making second edition. Maybe they can make the game appealing enough that I finally take the plunge and use that as an excuse to get some Roman miniatures!
I looked into Vanguard previously, to see if it could somehow be used to enhance our Battle Companies Games. The “exploding dice” concept sounds appealing to me.
While I hate square bases I do like the idea that even in a skirmish game you can be outflanked.
I wouldn’t have guessed and yet, it makes perfect sense! I kind of like the exploding dice idea for MESBG actually. I think one small flaw in that game is you can get into a kind of stalemate between two characters where they go back and forth and only take a single wound off each other and exploding dice would make those kinds of fights potentially more decisive. Of course, Exploding 6’s would be a bit too frequent compared to 8’s at the same time though so I can make an argument for not including it too.
I am not overly keen on the square bases either. I’ll share more next weekend but it turns out that I’m not overly keen on Mantic’s sculpts also so we’ll see where I go with this game, after all this initial burst of excitement.
Well I hope that you enjoy the game but from reading the comments it seems that some of your initial excitement has waned with the reality… is it the fugues or the rules? I can almost guarantee that the base shape of any skirmish level game doesn’t matter.
I have not heard of this game before.
From my surface reading it sounds like it will have similar terrain requirements as MESBG.
Yeah, its a bit embarrassing how quickly that happened, in fact. The figures aren’t working for me at all. The sculpts just aren’t as good as what I’m used to and was hoping for, unfortunately. I may be able to get around to playing Vanguard still but this process made me realize that I should probably put my priorities elsewhere so I’d be surprised if I do.
In case you were curious, I was planning on repurposing a lot of my MESBG trees, hills, and hedges for this game and then I’d just need some walls and/or buildings but obviously that is most likely not going to happen with this project anyway but that’s okay.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting as always. I especially appreciate you taking the time to do so when I post a review for a game that I have lost interest in within days of reviewing it haha!
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