?) Just because the publishers says it has the same brand name does not make it so. If you are thinking of buying this because it has the Neil Thomas Seal of Approval™then look elsewhere. But, if you are looking for a fast-play skirmish system then you should consider reading the rest of this review. The first review thread I saw on The Miniatures Page immediately jumped on that part of the title and many members condemned it, simply because they believed these sorts of games need dice. Just because there are no dice doesn't mean there is no element of chance or a randomizer. OHSW uses cards for its chance element, the idea being that the probability of success is built into the cards you just need to know the card combinations used to indicate success for each action.īasically, cards are used for everything random. How many action points each player has to spend in a phase.Įach player has their own deck of standard playing cards, including both Jokers in the deck, and pulls cards from their own deck every time one of these game elements needs to be resolved.I am always worried, when reviewing rules, that I am providing enough information for you to make an informed decision on whether the rules are 'for you' or not, without giving away all of the good stuff from the rules.

Authors work hard to write their rules, so I don't want to be a party to giving it all away. If you feel like I don't explain clearly enough the rules concepts below, let me know in the comments section. Who goes first? Both sides flip a card, high card is the first player. First Player gets action points, spends them, and resolves all actions.Second Player gets action points, spends them, and resolves all actions.Assuming the turn did not end, start over at step 1.This sequence is important because there is the concept of a turn and that of an Action Phase in which players act in initiative order. There can be a variable number of Action Phases in a turn and the player order in each Action Phase is determined by a separate initiative pull of the cards. This allows you situations where, for example, Player A plays then Player B, but on the subsequent Action Phase Player B plays first. This allows for one player to occasionally act twice in a row before the other player can act. Step 4 indicates that ending the turn is variable there can be one or more Action Phases per turn. In fact, it is possible that players may have an uneven number of opportunities to act. The turn immediately ends when either player has to draw a card and a Joker turns up.

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