I recently received a copy of "COMMAND POST" through a friend and was delighted to find a newsletter dedicated to CD Players. We game WWII in 1.72 scale using CD, and have been delighted with the results. Best of all, as you suggest in the newsletter is the responsiveness of the general rules to individual club idiosyncrasies and rules permutations. If fact I am including one which I have developed and use occasionally. Perhaps someone might find it equally as fascinating. I have developed a quick and easy random troop quality generator for my solo games. It can be used also to add some curious variation to a battalion level game since neither side would be sure, where two or four players would be involved, exactly what they were going up against. The challenge to gaming for us is that as a small club (there are only four of us) we are often gaming with two players, and no referee, three players with the odd man out as the referee, or four players with no referee. To try to blind all players, and add an element of the "Fog of War" to our games is the intent behind our generator. To use the system is quite easy. After sides are picked each player checks for the quality of the troops under his command. To do so he rolls a D10 for each battalion headquarters (including the battalion support weapons), and then one D10 again for EACH company. The result can be a pretty mixed lot within the same battalion. Cross reference each die roll by the appropriate year that the action is taking place for the nationality of troops used. The charts are as follows: GERMAN TROOP QUALITY GENERATOR Die Roll 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 10 Vt El El El El Vt 9 Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt 8 Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt 7 Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt Ex 6 EX Vt Vt Vt Ex Ex 5 EX Ex Ex Ex EX Ex 4 Tr Ex Ex Ex Tr Gr 3 Tr Tr Tr Tr Tr Gr 2 Tr Tr Tr Tr Gr Gr 1 Tr Tr Tr Gr Gr Gr AMERICAN TROOP QUALITY GENERATOR Die Roll 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 10 Ex Vt Vt Vt Vt Vt 9 Tr Ex Vt Vt Vt Vt 8 Tr Ex Vt Vt Vt Vt 7 Tr EX Ex Vt Vt Vt 6 Gr Tr Ex EX Vt Vt 5 Gr Tr Ex Ex Vt Vt 4 Gr Gr Tr Ex Ex Vt 3 Gr Gr Tr Tr Ex Ex 2 Gr Gr Gr Tr Ex Ex 1 Gr Gr Gr Gr Tr Ex El = Elite, Morale 10 Vt = Veteran, Morale 9 Ex = Experienced, Morale 8 Tr = Trained, Morale 7 Gr = Green, Morale 6 Back to Table of Contents -- Command Post Newsletter #2 To Command Post Quarterly List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by Greg Novak. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com