Tuesday 5 June 2012

First Look: Blood Upon the Risers

The latest supplement from Two Hour Wargames for their Nuts! World War 2 rules has just been released just in time for the anniversary of D-Day.  Blood Upon the Risers by Darby Eckles is intended to cover actions of small groups of the US 82nd Airborne on D-Day itself.

The 50 page booklet is available in PDF or hard copy and provides a brief introduction, supplementary special rules for Nuts!, artillery, vehicles, playing the game and 10 scenarios.  The scenarios can be played as a linked campaign (with the results of one affecting the next) or as stand alone games.  The scenarios are all relatively small in scale and can easily be played solo.

Having been a big fan of Band of Brothers and after a brief read of Blood Upon the Risers I can see me being seriously distracted from my current projects!  I may even set up a solo game tomorrow to celebrate the anniversary.

The supplement is available from the Two Hour Wargames website for $14 (pdf) or $15 (printed).  It's not stand alone and you will need to have a copy of Nuts! to play the scenarios.

7 comments:

  1. I can't wait to hear how you get on. I've still got my THW Dinosaur hunting to have a go at - just so easily distracted!

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    1. I will report back once I have had a game (assuming I don't get distracted by something else...)

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  2. Nice one Al! I love THW stuff and they form my main effort of wargaming endeavours, so I'm looking forward to seeing how you get on ;)
    Regard,
    Monty

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    1. I really like the THW reaction system and I have yet to find another set of rules at the level of Nuts! which gives the same feel.

      Just off to set up the table now...

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    1. It's very nicely done and well timed too! As you've seen I have played the first scenario and have the table set up for the second already...

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