Re: First Battle type Boardgame?

Fyi: Command Decision is GDW's WWII platoon level miniatures rules set

(i.e. every stand is about a platoon/battery).  There are two "sister"
games Combined Arms (Modern Warfare) and Over the Top (WWI).  There will
soon be a third "sister" for pre 20th century.  Command Decision is
currently undergoing a rewrite based on improvements developed over the
past 8 or so years and to fold in the Combined Arms rules.
    For small actions in Twilight 2000 my suggestion is to use the RPG
rules as minitures rules unless you are trying to run a battle that
doesn't have anything to do with your campaign (non-PC types will probably
complain about the amount of paperwork).  For larger actions I recommend
converting the last battles rules to miniature, but using the RPG rules
for PCs (the biggest failure of the Last Battles board game is that there
are no ammo rules and no conversion rules to go back and forth from the
RPG).  This is what I'm using right now to run convention games.  For the
third issue of the Eternal Soldier newletter there will be an article on
converting Command Decision II to skirmish and then going back and forth to
Twilight 2000.  For very large battles (say the size of Kalisz) I
recommend the use of Combined Arms (i.e. Command Decision II).

 					Non Cuniculus Est,
					    Tom Harris