"So Many And Yet So Few (Confessions of A Rules Junkie)" Topic

So I made a preliminary listing of all the rules sets currently in my collection (this is just printed copies – add another 30 or so that I have downloaded but never printed).

1859
1870
5150
A Good Day to Die
A Nation On Trial (ACW)
Aces At Dawn
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
Aeronef
Age of Eagles
Age of Battles
AK-47
All the King's Men
All Things Zombie
American Battlelines
Ancient Empires
Ancient Warfare (Gore)
Arc of Fire
Arriba Espana
Art of War
Barraka
Battlefield Evolution: World At War
Battlefleet Gothic
Battlefront
Battleground
Battlegroup Panzer Grenadier
Bayonets & Ideology
Beamstrike
Before I Was A Marshall I Was A Grenadier
Black Powder Battles
Blitzkrieg Commander
Bloody Picnic
Body Count
C.A.V.
Canvas Eagles
Captain General
Chain Reaction
Chainmail
Charge of the Light Brigade
Chassepot & Needlegun
Chef de Bataillon
Cold Steel & Canister
Coldwar Commander
Column, Line & Square
Command Decision (3rd)
Command Decision: Test of Battle
Command Horizon
Company Commander
Crimean War Battle Rules
Crossfire
Day of Empire
DBA
DBN
Deguello
Desperado
Dirtside II
Disposable Heroes
Dreadnought
Eagles to Glory
Elan Deluxe
Empire
Epic Armageddon
Face of Battle
Field of Glory
Final Argument of Kings
Fire & Fiasco
Fire & Fury
Fire When Ready
Fistful of TOWs
Flames of War
Flashpoint Vietnam
Flying Circus
FNG
Forlorn Hope (1987)
Forlorn Hope (2002)
From the Delta to the DMZ
Full Thrust
Ga Pa
Galactic Knights
General de Brigade
General Quarters I
General Quarters II
General Quarters III
General Quarters: Fleet Action Imminent
Grande Armee
Green Jackets & Voltigeurs
Grognards & Grenadiers
Grunts!
Guns at Gettysburg
Gutshot
Hammer's Slammers
High Water Mark
Honor & Glory
Hoplomachia
Horse, Foot, & Guns
Huzzah!
I Ain't BeenShot Mum
Impetus
In the Name fo Glory 2006
In the Name fo Glory 4th Ed.
In the Name fo Glory 5th Ed.
Iron Brigade
John Company
Johnny Reb III
Kampfgruppe Commander
Kriegspiel
Lace Wars
Launch Fighters!
Le Feu Sacre
Le Petit Empereur
Legacy of Glory
Legends of the Old West
Les Champs de Bataille
Lord of the Rings
March Toward the Sound of Guns
Martian Empires
Maximilian!
Mein Panzer
Mekong Vietnam
Metropolis: Battle Force Conflicts
Mexicanski 36
MicroArmor: The Game
Micronauts: The Game
Might of Arms
Minie Ball
Modern Ops
Muzzle Blast
Napoleonette
Napoleonic Warfare (Gore)
Napoleon's Battles (2nd)
Napoleon's Eagles
Nuts!
NWS: Naval Warfare WW2
OGRE
Over There
Panzer Korps
Piquet (Core Rules)
Red Actions
Redcoats & Rebels
Republic & Empire
Republique
Rules for Napoleonic Land Warfare
Santa Anna
Seekrieg
Shako
Shako & Musket
Shako II
Sharpe's Skirmish
Sides of Steel
Six Gun Sound
Skirmish Fire
Spanish Fury
Starmada X
Stars & Bars (ACW)
Starship Troopers
Steel Crush
Sword, Bayonet, Lance
Tactica Medieval
Task Force
The Gatling's Jammed!
The Sword & the Flame
There Are Your Guns!
They Died for Glory
To the Banners
To the Sound of the Guns 3rd
Trench Wars
Triumph of the Will
Two Hundred Years
Urban War: Strike Team Actions
Valmy to Waterloo
Valor & Steel & Flesh
Victorian Warfare (Gore)
Victory Without Quarter
Viva El Cristo Rey
Voice of the Guns
Volley & Bayonet
Warfare in the Age of Reason
Wargame Rules 1685-1845
Warhammer 40k (McCragge)
Warhammer Ancient Battles
Warmaster: Ancients
Warrewyk
Warring Empires
Warring Fleets
Warrior
Wildernness Wars
Yellow Ribbon

Only 187 – seriously I thought it would be 200 at least!

I made the list so I could go shopping at Fall In!

No "1776"?
Like Abou Ben Adhem, it would lead the list.

I used to have a list that long, including MANY WRG Ancients clones that laughingly called themselves "Fast Play" by having smaller print and more tables.

Obviously the "A" section of your library needs beefing up. If only you could find a set of rules that began with "A" . . .

;)

Hell of a list, man! You could start a gaming museum!

Oh, I "used to" because I ran out of room, and figured that since I have never even READ half of them, I may as well sell them to strangers at flea markets or on eBay.
A Word to the Wise: They were not a good investment.

Well, I can at least say that except for a dozen or so I recently purchased I have at least read every one of them!

Nice to see Gutshot there…ummm…you seem to be a bit heavy on the Napoleonics…I think you need to get some more ACW stuff to even it out…and I see nothing that says "Franco Prussian War"….

You got me beat by a country mile, and I thought I had way too many sets!

I just can't bring myself to throw rules away. Shock Of Impact, remember them? I'm never going to play them again but just can't let go. Same goes for WRG 7th and their truly dreadful army lists.

WRG 6th I may well use again as 25mm Ancients with that set is still going strong and I'd love to have a bash at it again for old times sake (great set of rules those). There's no way that set or its three army list books will see the inside of a bin.

I hate clutter as a rule but throwing away rules and lists is almost impossible to do.

hmmm, looks like a good start

I think that cataloging my hobby may be a task for this winter

Ok, how many of them do you actually play?

Brent

For FPW I have 1870, They Died for Glory and Volley & Bayonet. How many do I actually play? FoW, Grande Armee, Dreadnought, Stel Crush, Skirmish Fire, it's actually a much shorter list!

The collection is not complete – you don't have "Tractics."

Go back and start over.

Wyatt

Complete? I wouldn't even claim to "have every major rule set for the XYZ period" yet! I'm closest on Napoleonics but am missing many versions of Empire, Napoleon's Battles, System 7 and many, many more…

Stargrunt II not on your list?

Maybe some of your rules are masquerading as proper books in other parts of the house. Maybe a little search and rescue can get you up over 200. For example I'm surprised at no Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature.

Call that a collection of rules, you haven't even got Charles Grants 'Battle' let alone 'Warfare in the Industrial Age', '2x2 Napoleonics', KISS Rommel, Assault Gun or Hurrah Stalino;-)

Mike, I've got a copy of Stargrunt II.

AFAIK I've read every set of rules I've ever purchased/downloaded.

I once eBayed a package deal of WRG 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Among its (their) clones were:
Shock of Imopact
Newbury "Fast Play" (an oxymoron if ever there was one…)
Other dreadful small print stuff that looked they came from the same printer.

Gentlemen: mmerely adding a new category for "training" does not make a rules set "new and inovative".
Of course, that was back in the day where Real Men had no stinking Spellcheck, and were forced to type accurately!

BTW, I finally sold my Emerald Tablet at Historicon flea market!

The first step is recognizing that you have a problem.

Really an awsome list. However I did not see "old school" style rules like Grant and Young.

You need Vis Bellica and Vis Magica to really round off the list!
VB

I thought I had a rules fixation, but not any more!

Oh yes and could someone publish a rule set that begins with Z or he'll never feel complete ;)

@Col Scott 2: I'm new to the hobby – painting for 6 years, gaming for just 4 – so 1988 is "old school" to me

@Vis Bellica: Sock puppet! Sock puppet! Get the torches and pitchforks!

@Mad Mac: Just cuz you're less crazy than me don;t mean you ain;t crazy too. As for "Z" I left off Zombie Apocalypse!

@Auto Das Fe: You psychic? I just turned up Esprit de Corps: A House Divided from the dining room book shelf!

You need Hammers Anvils to go with the Hammers Slammer's rule.

"publish a rule set that begins with Z "

Well, there is always 'Zombies', which does at least have figures.

There are at least four sets starting with 'Zulu…' on freewargamesrules.co.uk alone.

Quite a collection. I don't feel as bad about my couple of shelves full now.

Mark

Now, now Mark. That entire collection resides in a single four drawer file cabinet. In alphabetical order. and yes, I'm that crazy in some ways.

Hey Mark,
Are you going to make it to Recruits?

Yep.

Oops!

Just found:

Poor Bloody Infantry
Civil War Battles (Peter Pig)
Close for Action (Napoleonic Naval)
Serenissima (Renaissance Naval)

So that's 191 and counting…