Maps for walled village/town in Italy?

[jalpeyrie]

hello all,

Any idea how far along the MMP Ortona HASL module is?
thank you

J

 

[Alan Hume]

LM11 "Medieval Warfare" from HOB's Long March pack has extensive SSR for city walls.

Although the scenario uses DASL boards, the use of a stretch of road to represent a section of city wall is quite innovative.
https://www.aslscenarioarchive.com/scenario.php?id=60563

At its simplest, a city wall in LM11 is a level one Location with a +2 TEM and an inherent stairwell. You could restrict access to a stairwell to one side of the wall and even particular hexes. However, if units did not fire from the walls, there is no need for stairwells and you're primarily dealing with a level one obstacle.

Beyond that, the SSR could easily get away from you. Unless the historical situation cites it, there's no reason, for example, to allow Scaling (B23.424).

Another place to look for ideas might be V7. Gutted Buildings, especially the effects of being roofless (7.2). For instance, one could treat a series of buildings as Gutted to represent a higher or variable-height wall, with only a top level Location reached via quasi inherent stairwell Locations, not unlike the way a Factory Rooftop Access Point (B23.87) works.

Again, no shortage of ideas. Just some work to distill an SSR down to a few lines of text.

Thanks for the input Chris, some very good points there

 

[Vinnie]

Don't forget the city wall rules in Manilla. Although there I had the impression the wall was a really substantial structure.
Additionally, consider the Forgotten War steep hills rules as those hills were almost vertical as opposed to rolling.

 

[Alan Hume]

Don't forget the city wall rules in Manilla. Although there I had the impression the wall was a really substantial structure.
Additionally, consider the Forgotten War steep hills rules as those hills were almost vertical as opposed to rolling.

Yep, I don't have Manilla sadly
I was fortunate enough to win a copy from The Two Half Squads
but the blooming post office slapped a customs charge on it and didn't tell me
so they kept it for a couple of weeks (I didn't know they had it) and then sent it back to America

I didn't want to pay to get it shipped over again so I asked the guys to pass it on to someone else

blinking post office

 

[zgrose]

Maybe it's my inexperience, but my impression was that town walls were generally higher than most of the buildings within...?

I was being facetious about the decision to make walls a lower obstacle than the buildings behind them in the linked rules.

 

[GeorgeBates]

I was being facetious about the decision to make walls a lower obstacle than the buildings behind them in the linked rules.

Bonus points for correctly spelling 'facetious'