[Consim-l] Royal Tank Corps - Cambrai

[Thomas Cundiff]

Mike,

I would second that remark with one caveat.  The game had extensive errata, 
including counter errors.  In, I think, the very first issue of Old Soldiers 
Magazine I actually dug through all of the old MiH and RTC threads at CSW 
and dug up the all the errata and Q&A for the game.  I've never made new 
counters to correct the errors, though that is one of the things I've wished 
to accomplish.  I've read through the rules a few times and they seem well 
enough put together (save for the errata which is essential).  The map is a 
mess.  Bad, really BAD artwork.  Poor choice of colors and poorer choice of 
colors for area borders so much so that often you can't tell where the 
borders are.  Now, all of this might be construed as a veiled slap at the 
game, but I really do like it and indeed Area Type Games.  I even think that 
Perla's attempts with Spearhead Games utilizing the same systems for the US 
Civil War were good ideas, just badly executed (his second edition rules 
fixed the problems, but not before they'd received such bad press that it 
pretty much killed the idea of Area Movement for Civil War games - more's 
the pitty).

Maybe I can take some time this spring to make a set of new counters for the 
game fixing the errors.  Don't know about the map though.  Needs a true 
artists touch and I'm just a good draftsman.

Tom Cundiff