[Rules] 4th edition

[waynebaumber]

Played my first game with 4th edition yesterday against Hugmenot and thought I would give my first impressions of it.

1.In this small game there was little change to the way I played the game so that indicates that the feel and flow of game has remain unchanged.
2. Notwithstanding the above, Assaults are different because of the chart change and the 2 X D6 change there are more morale results specially with 18/24 attacks. This tends to make assaults last for longer.
3. The terrain chart is poor, hard to read. In trying to incorporate every possible terrain in the PG world on one chart AP have made in an unwieldy mess.
4. We only used the 1 optional rule (FOW) but the optional rules are not a bad thing as long as you agree on them beforehand. It will be a cold day in hell before I use the Mire rules.
5.Friendly fire can really hurt with large artillery attacks, this seems to me more logical.

So all in all I was happy enough with the new edition rules. As I still play both editions it will be interesting to see if I start to prefer the newer edition over the course of 2015.