wargames to go, part 1: rules

[winterbadger]

Here are a list of miniatures game rules I'm disposing of:

Dominance (Renaissance rules)
Drums Along the Mohawk
Redcoat
Wargamer's Guide to the American Revolution
1644 (English Civil War: the first edition)
Flower of Chivalry (late Middle Ages)
De Bellis Antiquitatis (editions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0)
De Bellis Multitudinis (1.0 and 2.0 and four army books)
War Games Rules 3000 BC to 1485 AD, seventh edition (the famous WRG 7) with three army books
Ancient Warfare
Lionheart
Shock of Impact (ancient/medieval) and army book
Newbury Fast Play Ancients and army lists
Sword and Shield (ancient/medieval skirmishing)
Tercio 5th edition
Newbury Fast Play Medieval
Newbury Fast Play Pike & Shot
Wargaming Rules 1420-1700 (the "Gush" rules, after their author) and army book
Sword and Pistol (Renaissance/Reformation skirmishing)
Athena Wargame Rules: English Civil War and Thirty Years War
Forlorn Hope (English Civil War) second edition
Once Upon a Time in the West Country (ECW skirmishing)
Wargames Rules for the mid 18th Century
Wargame Rules 1685-1845 and a Seven Years War army book
Kaiserbosh (WWI)
Tactical Commander (WWII skirmishing)
Clash of Armor (WWII)
Warhammer Ancient Battles (1st edition) plus Armies of Antiquity
Volley & Bayonet
Covered with Glory (Napoleonic tactical)
From Valmy to Waterloo (Napoleonic grand tactical)
Field of Honor (19th century)
Over the Top (WWI)
Red Sun, Blue Sky (WWII PTO air combat)
Harpoon (modern naval) with eight supplements (ship forms, sub forms, ASW forms, 1990-1991 data annex, 1994 naval review, Battles of the Third World War, South Atlantic War, Troubled Waters: Mideast Conflicts)
Shako (Napoleonic)
Command at Sea: The Rising Sun (WWII naval)
Napoleon's Battles and two supplements
Command Decision (WWII land combat) plus Command Post Quarterly 2,7,8
Stars & Bars (American Civil War)
Ancient Empires with four supplements (Alexander, Successors, Hannibal, Caesar)
Empire (Emperor's Press edition)
Warzone (science fiction)
Ogre (science fiction) miniatures rules (not the boardgame)
Babylon 5 Wars (rulebook only)
Seekrieg 4th edition (WWII naval)
Age of Iron plus expansion (19th century naval)
Classical Hack
Chef de Battalion (Napoleonic ultratactical)
Frederick the Great (FGU)
Piquet, second edition
Dirtside II (science fiction)
Armies of Arcana (fantasy)
Tactica (ancient)
Tactica Medieval
Armati (ancient/medieval/Renaissance) and Advanced Armati
Fire, Hack, and Run (generic skirmishing)
Bireme & Galley (ancient naval)
Warfare in the Age of Reason (18th century Europe)
Revenge (medieval) plus supplement
They Died for Glory (Franco-Prussian War)
Grand Battaille, Grande Victoire (19th century)
In the Age of Bismark and Napoleon III plus Crimea and Russo-Turkish supplements

Comments

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

OK, so what set of wargames rules published in the last 20-odd years do you not possess?

[winterbadger]

Oh, golly, bazillions... :-)

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

You have no idea (okay, you probably do) what a temptation this post was to me. I had to sit myself down and give myself a firm talking to, saying "You've already got rules for every period you're likely to play. You should be spending money on figures, not on more rules!"

But I do have to ask: You describe Chef de Battalion as "ultratactical." o_O What do you mean by that? Is that like grand tactical but bigger? Or like grand tactical but more complicated? Or something else entirely?

For the record, I've thinned my rules collection down to:
Ancients: DBA (I'm not much of an ancients player)
Pike & Shot: DBR
18th century: Age of Reason
Napoleonic: Empire, Shako
ACW: Johnny Reb 2
20th century: Battalion Commander (the 6mm variant of Company Commander), Fistful of Tows
Science Fiction: Dirtside II
Spaceship: Starfleet Battles, Silent Death

But I can certainly relate to the pain of thinning your collection: I sold most of mine to help finance our move up from New Orleans, including selling off a near-complete run of MWANs.

[winterbadger]

CdB has a figure to troop scale of 1:5. The scenarios that come in the book are all scaled for a 6' x 12' table, and the largest involves about nine battalions of infantry and a battery against four battalions and two batteries.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Okay, those are just scary numbers of figures. Then again I'm one of those oddballs who actually liked the 12-figure units in AoR and thought it cluttered things up when people doubled the numbers and fielded 24-figure units.

Looking back over my list of rules this morning, I actually do see one set of rules I need to pick up at some point in the future (and believe if or not, it's not one you had on your list): The Soldier's Companion for colonials.

[winterbadger]

I actually have a copy of that you would be welcome to. It's photocopied, so I didn't figure that I could legitimately sell it; I made it back when the rules were out of print. Just email me your address and I will send it to you.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you!