hind Commander ,First Look

Marcin Gerkowicz ,the very nice chap behind Sturmovik commander has kindly sent me a copy of his new rule set Hind Commander. Although I have not had the chance to play these yet ,I certainly like what I see not only chopper v chopper rules but these incorporate ground units as well I will be buying some new toys to game this, so I thought I would put up a little review based on my first look at the book.

Presentation: a nice looking card backed book nice and eye catching ,leaving no doubt what its there for.

What Do you Get : 100 pages ,not including covers, pages 2-3 are a very concise index ,The next 7 sides are the introduction which not only explains the reasoning behind the rules but also terms used in the rules and what you need to play .pages 17-26 cover the turn sequence explaining each step with nice clear colour photo's and explanations.P27-37 all the additional rules and special rules,The rest of the book is explaining how to determine forces,how long the game should last and how to end it,plus all the stats for most common helicopters and several scenarios which in turn cover all the rules so you slowly build into the game . There are also included with the book 12 full colour card and token sheets ,these are seperate so no awkward photo copying or having to cut your nice new book up &2 summery sheets .

Expansions: there is no mention of expansions ,to be honest I think everything is covered in this book .There is however a great web site and forum with official downloads which are starting to cover the copters and aircraft not in the main rules.

Down Side: none for me really but others might not like the fact that the counters and cards are not perforated so be  careful with those scissors and there are no solo rules but on the forum Marcin has said he will try to develope this at a later date.

Over all : Very Nice with some nice touches that make the game different. 9out of 10

How do you get them : UK caliver books stock them or from the Hind Commander web site which also sells pre made battle boxes to go with the rules ,there is a handy currency convertor on the ordering page and personally I do not think the postage is over the top.
I hopefully will get to do some after action reports soon.

Hind Commander

Just a quick post ,I have just found out that the people behind sturmovik Commander has just published a set of helicopter warfare rules ,I have not yet seen them but if they are half as good as the free Sturmovik rules then they will be worth having. I believe they are available in the UK through Caliver Books and on thier own website  http://www.hind-commander.com/

next few days

Hi not posted for a while , been ill and started a new job so not been up to it ,managed a few games ,Ambush alley , stormovik commander and wings of war. Had the nice news from Shaun and Peggy at Ambush Alley that our little team that do fund raising games have been chosen as AA point Men . Will post some more over the weekend including a review and picks of the 15mm sci fi  stuff from critical mass that we will be using for tomorrows war ,and pics from some games and whatever I get time to do.

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Sturmovik Commander

As mentioned earlier those great chaps at Sturmovik Commander have allowed us to use their rules in our British Legion fund Raising campaign, but now they have made a nice contribution by sponsering us with some very nice models,and scenery for our games plus advirtising as well can I just thank them along with our other sponsers for helping us so much and ask everyone to follow the link in our sonsers Section to the Sturmovik Commanders web page and they have a very useful yahoo group as well. Thank you Marcin and team. The Rules are free to download and are very playable ,you do not need loads of models or be a mechanical genius to build flight stands and they have loads of back up stuff ,like scenarios ,add on rules for almost everything you can think of and they are a "Living rule set" in other words constantly being added to and improved ,and the team  encourage feed back from players.

Sturmovik Commander

Hi  after recently finding these great rules ,I have spoken to Marcin Gerkowicz and he has allowed us to use these rules as part of our fundraising efforts for the Royal British Legion. So the plan for games next year are: Ambush Alley using Britsh and Taliban forces as this year plus ,Force on Force for the Malayan Emergency and World War 2 Aircombat using Sturmovik Commander .Please take a look at this fantastic rule set that is fully supported with extras and scenarios ,a great web site http://www.sturmovik-commander.com/ and a yahoo group http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sturmovik-commander/?yguid=185532224 .