Perhaps the most noticeable thing about them is that it's really hard to make a plan work, because your troops are going to be a lot more interested in staying alive than doing everything you think they should. They make a large range of skirmish wargames covering a lot of subjects. If I get that I'll play it, and if not I'll put one together myself using the random set up rules and tell you how it goes.

I know Momotaro has been working on an initial skirmish for our game. I could probably give you a more honest answer tomorrow. Which is part of what makes it good for solo play, or for play where a GM sets up a situation, and then plays with one active player. That kind of thing can create a chain of events that occur one after the other, and the player must deal with those until they reach a point where they can once again make some direct decisions. There are a whole series of different kinds of checks one makes during play that tends to take control of units' actions or limit the player to interpretting the results of those checks. Players don't necessarily control the pieces in a way that seems usual in wargames. The biggest, most notable thing about 2HW is that there's a bit of a clockwork mentality to them.

In theory, momotaro and I are playing, but the problem of being on opposite sides of the planet as well as having bunches of RL responsibilities on both ends has made the thing move at a glacial pace. Well, if I actually end up getting the game up and running, I'll let you know.

Two hour wargames man-to-man variant