Five Kilometers From Leipzig beta version
Five Kilometers From Leipzig is a set of solo miniatures rules for black powder skirmish actions. Take a band of 6 trusted companions and slug it out with enemy military forces¸ guerrillas or native warbands. Suitable for the era from roughly 1700 to 1870¸ the rules allow you to play a campaign easily and quickly. Your characters will learn new skills¸ provided they survive the battle. The rules use a simple and straight forward combat system¸ combined with the solo oriented turn sequence you know from Five Parsecs From Home and Five Leagues From the Borderlands. Each turn¸ all of your characters get to act but the initiative roll determines who goes before or after the enemy moves¸ with the player assigning initiative dice as the situation demands. Solo rules are built into the game engine. The game is played with 6 figures in your "squad" initially¸ meaning you can get started on skirmish gaming without having to paint a mountain of figures. This is a beta test version to gauge interest as well as offer an insight into what a full version might look like. It is written to be fully playable¸ but it lacks many of the more extensive explanations you might expect from a fully featured title. It is also intended as a small stand-alone title for people to have some fun with¸ while we're all sitting tight and distancing ourselves socially. The game is put up as a Pay What You Want title. If you can¸ please consider throwing in a couple of dollars. I understand of course that many of you are facing a hard time with lack of work currently. If so¸ consider this one on the house.