Rookie Mistakes for a Chain of Command Game
Even with over 40 years of gaming a new set of rules can make you a rookie all over again. Over the years I have watched games of Chain of Command and enjoyed how the game played. Jim Owczarski and his merry band over at Panache Wargaming play CoC on a regular basis and Table Top CP have run countless games also and so I decided to learn to play the game. Wow, I made every rookie mistake a first time gamer would do. Chain of Command has a lot of subtleties to it and that is what makes it a great game but it will take some time to learn how to play well. My first mistake was simple but now with hindsight so obvious. The very nature of the attacker and defender have rolls that can not be ignored and you will learn that lesson fast in this game. As the defender it was up to me to make the attacker find me, fix me and then develop an assault to beat me. I did not listen to the GM and pay attention to the type of force that was coming at me and I then exposed my entire force so that
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