Corps Commander

Corps Commander, or "Corps Commander: Operational Manoeuvre Group" is a set of micro-armour Miniature wargaming rules designed by Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton and published in the UK by Tabletop games copyrighted by B.

These rules simulates modern warfare between forces of up to Corps or Army Level in any future war on the Central Front in Europe.

All aspects of modern warfare are covered including helicopters, air power, NBC, logistics and electronics.

I was unable to find any evidence Andy Ashton made any plans to continue this project.

Bruce Rea Taylor gives a special mention to the Wallasey Wargames Club in the Introduction of the Korps Commander Rules.

We would like to acknowledge the help of the Wallasey War-games Club in the preparation and play testing of these rules, and also those in Nottingham (Rob at Heroes is the one to contact).

Please send a Stamped Addressed Envelope if you have any queries.The primary significance of these rules was it was one of the first game systems which used a scale of 1-2 base(s) per company.

In practice the detail and complexity of the rules precluded any possibility of playing a corps level game within a reasonable time frame.

Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton published Corps Commander in July 1986.

While Bruce Rea Taylor published a number of additional books after August 1988, they were all dated after his death on 3 March 1989.

These included; It is likely that these changes were intended to be added to corps commander in a possible future publication, however this never occurred.

For comparison purposes the later Korps Commander used a Ground scale of 5 cm = 1 km (1:5000) and a Daylight Game Turn = 1/2 hour.

Corps/Korps Commander resolved this issue by giving each a Base a value, representing the number of common vehicles or guns.