In the 7th turn it will move to the river bank
2nd battalion will capture Beaulieu-Village and defend it. 1st battalion will move ahead for 4 turns and capture hill #302. what you have to do is study the map, study the terrain, devise a devious plan to capture the objectives on the map and write down ‘orders’ for your battalion. In Spearhead a commander must make his plan before the battle. In all wargames I have played so far the battle plan was developed during the game. The statline is just a few numbers, which was very revolutionary in 1995! Many games I know rely on a statline and special abilities, that modify unit characteristics. Spearhead lets you command a brigade or corps. A player commands a company or maybe a battalion. For a long description of the game mechanics, try Phil Broeders’ review. I will shortly summarize the game and give my first impressions/comparisons, for other wargamers, who, like me, are looking for the ‘perfect’ (6mm) WW2-wargame rules. This weekend with 2 friends I played a test game. I last spoke with him nearly a decade ago, and he told me, ‘I don’t want to devote my life to this.'”Īnyway, since a year or so I have been busy with 6mm WW2 wargaming and if you ask around on Facebook, Spearhead is frequently mentioned and recommended as a (still) original ruleset. He got sick of dealing with a million requests for this and that scenario or variant, people arguing about paces and drill regulations, or demanding the umpteenth justification for why the Saxon Volunteer Fusilier Cuirassiers were a +1 modifier and not a +2…. 
But on TMP a wargamer who knew him wrote: “Arty got really burned out. Yes, he recently updated his famous ‘Tactica’ ruleset, after 30 years. I write was because he’s not very active as designer anymore, as far as I know. Arty Conliffe was an influential New York tabletop wargame designer in the nineties, who wrote Crossfire, Armati, Tactica, Shako and Spearhead. Spearhead is a WW2-miniature wargame for mega battles, It’s scale neutral though designed for smaller scales, 6-15mm. It was the same year Arty Conliffe designed Spearhead. What was I playing back in 1995? I remember I felt lonely, lost, abandoned, heartbroken (my first girlfriend had left me and I couldn’t get over it) and to chase the lonely hours away I didn’t drink whiskey – I played a computer wargame, Command & Conquer.
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