Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
Not strictley tabletop wargaming but when I was a nipper we use to hide toy soldiers behind castle walls made of lego whilst the attackers hid behind tanks and armoured cars. We used to kill the soldiers using spring loaded canons firing pot rivets, the end of which was covered in solder.* The one with the soldiers left standing won.
Not sure if you can get the spring loaded cannons anymore (prolly banned!) but fantastic fun for the kids.
*You can even make molds out of wood.
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Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
I absolutely adore RISK.
Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
Just Google: miniature rules *period...ex.napoleonic*
Wish I still had some of my stuff; the rules we used were an amalgam of 3 different rule sets, all changes playtested for balance and run through a statistical analysis; "sigh" those were the days...
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Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
I've used the rules of the Society of Ancients for more years than I can count. They have a set of links here which might yield some free rulesets - or you can buy the SoA rulesets for a pittance.
Amusingly, we used these rules at Sandhurst (in a semi-official way - and remember, this was way back when a gentleman bought his commission)
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Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
Thanks for all the suggestions. My boys wil definitely have a 'those were the days' memory with all the rules I found and the other stuff that's out there, plus a couple of outrageously expensive purchases we envisage - we just have to have those 15mm grenadiers, you see, so I'm mortgaging the house. We are still negotiating with the missus what carpet we are gointg to cut up to build the landscape.
I found some Edwardian toy soldier rules that promise at first sight to be excellent for both simplicity and depth. The Wells rules are good to falll back on, but there is much, much more.
For those interested here are some sites that (besides the one mentioned by our esteemed Sandhurst alumnus) deliver goodies:
Historical Miniatures Wargaming Resource Site
Old Trousers
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Re: Looking for old tabletop war rules - online
You might find http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/ worth a click.
The site does exactly what the name suggests. Lots of periods, lots of rules. All free.
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