Comment by nlkl

A bit of a shameless plug, but maybe it could be of interest. Having been through a similar journey some years ago I spent some time back then to design a variation of Knizia’s Battle Line/Schotten Totten for a standard deck:

https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/191552/vassal

It is not the first such variant, but one that I felt a bit more pleased with than the other variants I found.