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    Things Change Member JAG's Avatar
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    Default Re: Military Modeling - Does Anyone Do It?

    Well I don't play ancient periods as much as others precisely because the rule sets are so poor. DBM sucks, imo, interestingly though warhammer brought out their own ancient rule sets, which gives an OK-ish game, if you like warhammer you will probably really like the rules.

    http://www.ancientbattles.com/index.html

    The ruleset is called warhammer ancient battles, I believe.

    As to Napoleonic period, there are vast quantities of rules, though probably the most played rule sets are -

    http://theminiaturespage.com/rules/nap/itgm.html

    This is grand manor, pretty much the original and most detailed rule set around.

    http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare...633/shako.html

    This is shako, another rule set used by huge amounts of people, it has some weird parts but is decent.

    There are lots more and if you look around on the internet you can find pretty much every type of ruleset. General de Brigade and Napoleons Battles are two other rulesets which I have played a fair bit, not too shabby.

    For ACW it just has to be Fire and fury - http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/FnF/

    Best set of ACW rules I ever played.



    And as the members of the wargames club I go to have pretty much every period under the sun covered, I play everything and anything - cept ECW and seven years war, because they are incredibly boring.
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    Scruffy Looking Nerf Herder Member Steppe Merc's Avatar
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    Guns? Guns are no fun....

    "But if you should fall you fall alone,
    If you should stand then who's to guide you?
    If I knew the way I would take you home."
    Grateful Dead, "Ripple"

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    I had also given it a go a few years ago, I made 2 tanks, a german one and a soviet one. Then I started to work on an Apache but then I just didn't feel like it anymore, I think i was not patient enough to finish them... :(

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    I cant stand figure painting.. its very difficult for me. When youre good at it though, the results are impressive to say the least. - PanzerJager
    Yeah, it can get old real fast. I've contracted out a lot of the painting on my armies. I usually only do small batches of figures at a time. My work is pretty good, but I don't have the time to do 300-400 figures per army.

    Well I don't play ancient periods as much as others precisely because the rule sets are so poor. DBM sucks, imo, interestingly though warhammer brought out their own ancient rule sets, which gives an OK-ish game, if you like warhammer you will probably really like the rules. - JAG
    I've played a LOT of DBM, and it works well as a tournament game, but it definitely has it's share of "issues".

    I'd like to give Warhammer Ancients a try, but it's set up for 25mm figures, and all mine are 15mm. Oh, well.

    There is a tournament scene for Warhammer Ancients, and they're usually playing in the same mega-size room with the DBM tournaments... so I've at least gotten to watch a bit.

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    damn PanzerJager, those are pretty nice

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