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Step 4 indicates that ending the turn is variable there can be one or more Action Phases per turn. This allows for one player to occasionally act twice in a row before the other player can act. This allows you situations where, for example, Player A plays then Player B, but on the subsequent Action Phase Player B plays first. There can be a variable number of Action Phases in a turn and the player order in each Action Phase is determined by a separate initiative pull of the cards. This sequence is important because there is the concept of a turn and that of an Action Phase in which players act in initiative order. Assuming the turn did not end, start over at step 1.Second Player gets action points, spends them, and resolves all actions.First Player gets action points, spends them, and resolves all actions.Who goes first? Both sides flip a card, high card is the first player. If you feel like I don't explain clearly enough the rules concepts below, let me know in the comments section.

Authors work hard to write their rules, so I don't want to be a party to giving it all away. I am always worried, when reviewing rules, that I am providing enough information for you to make an informed decision on whether the rules are 'for you' or not, without giving away all of the good stuff from the rules.

How many action points each player has to spend in a phase.Įach player has their own deck of standard playing cards, including both Jokers in the deck, and pulls cards from their own deck every time one of these game elements needs to be resolved.

OHSW uses cards for its chance element, the idea being that the probability of success is built into the cards you just need to know the card combinations used to indicate success for each action.īasically, cards are used for everything random. Just because there are no dice doesn't mean there is no element of chance or a randomizer. The first review thread I saw on The Miniatures Page immediately jumped on that part of the title and many members condemned it, simply because they believed these sorts of games need dice. But, if you are looking for a fast-play skirmish system then you should consider reading the rest of this review. If you are thinking of buying this because it has the Neil Thomas Seal of Approval™then look elsewhere. 😄) Just because the publishers says it has the same brand name does not make it so.

(That may be too obscure of an example for some of you. Put simply, OHSW is about as much a part of extending the One-Hour brand as Battles of Westerns was in extending the Battlelore or Command and Colors brand. Put another way, where I bought and use OHW for the scenarios, and to a lesser extent the force composition, I will use OHSW for the rules and period modifications. It is expected for you to use this if you wish to modify your forces. There is a points system, and the points allocated for each side in each scenario. The force composition for each scenario is specific, with no variation.

There are no army lists, force composition tables, or any of that.

There are no variations to those scenarios. There is one specific scenario designed for each period presented (Napoleonics, Colonial, Post-WW I (Interwar), WW II, Cold War, and Pulp Action).

There are no generic skirmish scenarios.

These rules you might really want to play.

Although the rules are still simple, they are nowhere near as lacking in detail as OHW.

OHSW approaches these three areas differently:

The number of units was small and force composition was randomized.

Many were similar to Tabletop Battles and other classic scenario books, but they were clean and precise on what they wanted you to do.

The scenarios were the main attraction.

Basically it came down to rolling a D6 number of hits when combat occurred and when the number of hits on a unit totaled 15, the unit was removed from the table.

Let me start by addressing three things that leapt out at me with OHW and compare them to OHSW. Keep it simple, keep it moving, make it fun. Basically it follows the mantra of stripping away the minutiae of detail that, in the author's opinion, doesn't lend to the decisiveness of the action. One-Hour Skirmish Wargames: Fast-Play Dice-less Rules for Small Actions from Napoleonics to Sci-Fi ( OHSW ) is a new book from Pen and Sword in the vein of Neil Thomas' One-Hour Wargames ( OHW), sort of. But no, although this is under the "One-Hour" brand, it is another author, John Lambshead, from the John's Toy Soldiers blog. If you saw the "One-Hour" title and thought "Neil Thomas has put out another one", well you thought like I did.