Going Commando for Christmas

Despite the chill in the air this feels like the perfect time of the year to go commando. With Christmas fast approaching I thought I'd pick myself up a present in the shape of 02 Hundred Hours by Grey for Now games. I'd seen it advertised in a few places and it looked interesting. The game is based around small scale commando raids in World War 2 with one side playing the sneaky attackers and the other the soon to be surprised defenders. The starter box is £48 direct but I got a few £'s off by going via The Pit Gaming. 

The starter set box is about A5 in height and width with plenty of goodies packed inside and pretty deep box.

Front and back look very nice with some good art-work on them and a teaser of the contents on the rear.

The contents are nice plastic tray for all your bits and bobs which already holds some cards and the custom dice for playing the game.

The tray has plenty of space for the counters you get, in fact you get two sets of these counters which are in good thick card stock. I've not read the rules yet but the counters hint at the sort of thing you'll be tracking in game.

Talking of the rules they come as an A5 softback book of 64 pages, a quick look shows around 30 pages of actual rules with the rest filled out with 8 scenarios and some background text. At only 30 A5 pages it feels like this shouldn't be a game overburdened with complex mechanics but all will become clear once I read them through.

Here are the custom dice and some of the cards, each unit has it's own card along with some weapon cards and also what looks like cards for the defender to play so the attacker doesn't have a smooth time. 

The last components in the box are the Wargames Atlantic miniatures, these are all hard plastic. 

For the Germans you get three identical sprues each of which is enough to make six defenders. If you wanted to expand the defenders you can by box's of 30 defenders as well. It looks like you get a good selection of bits to customise your defenders including two guard dogs per sprue.

For the British you get two identical sprues to make twelve SAS/Commando types, again you can buy box's of 30 of these if you want extra. Again, lots of options for heads and weapons and equipment so you won't have a two soldiers looking the same.

Having just bought a snow gaming mat I'm tempted to steer clear of the obvious French setting for the game and perhaps take it to the Norwegian theatre, though of course you could do France in the winter. I'll need to have a look around for building and winter clothed models options before deciding what to do. I would imagine that an SAS in the desert setting would be in the works given the fact that the BBC have started a new series which will hopefully run for a while.