Running first Chainmail session - nervous

[thegreyelf]

In my current Age of Conan game, the PCs are about to find themselves trapped in an Aesir ringfort under siege by an army of zombies. I plan to run it using Chainmail.

Any Chainmail vets out there got any tips or pieces of advice to throw my way?

[cooper]

Do you have a copy of the great 5 page cheat sheet/DM screen of CHAINMAIL rules that ChicagoWiz made? Will make adjudication go much faster.

Link on the right of the website call Chainmail Ref Sheet

[Deleted]

I ran my first CHAINMAIL battle as referee when I was 16. It's easy.

The point value chart works. Trust it.

It's not a role playing game, it's a miniatures wargame. Treat it as such. You don't win by killing an enemy army, you win by inflicting enough casualties that it breaks and runs.

[thegreyelf]

Well, in this case the enemy army are mindless zombies who aren't likely to break and run until exterminated. The scenario is very much a Night of the Living Dead one--survive and hold your ground till the enemy is otherwise destroyed.

That being said, the adventure scenario I'm using has some interesting bare-bones battle rules in it that I may incorporate, such as rules for what happens on a losing round (in this case, perhaps a losing morale check).