"Confessions of a Rules Junkie - Part 2" Topic

So I sent a couple hours yesterday trying to organize my rule book collection. I hunted through piles, bookshelves and various spider holes throughout the house and turned up a couple dozen more rule books. They have now all been transfered to their real home, a four drawer file cabinet in the basement. They are filed in alphabetical order with little file tabs on the folders so I can find them quickly. I can now see I need to buy a second cabinet as this one is full. Although I may make a trip to Ikea and look for better looking storage solutions.

For those who wonder about these kinds of things, the list is now 213 titles, not counting supplements, army books, Codices, scenario books, etc.

Here they are:

.45 Adventures
1859
1870
5150
A Call to Arms
A Good Day to Die
A Nation On Trial (ACW)
Aces At Dawn
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
Aeronef
Age of Battles
Age of Eagles
AK-47
All the King's Men
All Things Zombie
American Battlelines
Among the War Parties
Ancient Empires
Ancient Warfare (Gore)
Arc of Fire
Arriba Espana
Art of War
Axis & Allies
Axis & Allies
Babyon 5 – A Call to Arms
Barraka
Battle Stations! Battle Stations!
Battlefield Evolution
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
Black Powder Gaming (A.G.S.)
Blitzkrieg Commander
Bloody Picnic
Body Count
C.A.V.
Canvas Eagles
Captain General
Chain Reaction
Chainmail
Charge of the Light Brigade
Chassepot & Needlegun
Check Your 6!
Chef de Bataillon
Civil War Battles (RFCM)
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
Days of Empire
DBA
DBN
Deguello
Desperado
Dirtside II
Disposable Heroes
Dreadnought
Eagles to Glory
Elan Deluxe
Empire
Epic Armageddon
Esprit de Corps: A House Divided
Face of Battle
Fantastic Worlds
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
G.O.B.S.
Ga Pa
Galactic Knights
General de Brigade
General Quarters I
General Quarters II
General Quarters III
General Quarters: Fleet Action Imminent
Gloire
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 of Glory 2006
In the Name of Glory 4th Ed.
In the Name of Glory 5th Ed.
Iron Brigade
Ironclads
John Company
Johnny Reb III
Kampfgruppe Commander
Kriegspiel
Lace Wars
Launch Fighters!
Le Feu Sacre
Le Petit Empereur
Legacy of Glory
Legends of the High Seas
Legends of the Old West
Les Champs de Bataille
Lord of the Rings (Moria Box)
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)
Poor Bloody Infantry
Red Actions
Redcoats & Rebels
Republic & Empire
Republique
Rules for Napoleonic Land Warfare
Santa Anna
Seekrieg
Serenissima
Shako
Shako & Musket
Shako II
Sharpe's Skirmish
Sides of Steel
Signal Close Action
Six Gun Sound
Skirmish Fire
Spanish Fury
Starmada X
Stars & Bars (ACW)
Starship Troopers
Steel Crush
Stringbags!
Sword, Bayonet, Lance
Tactica Medieval
Task Force
The Gatling's Jammed!
The Great War
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 At Sea
Victory On The Rivers
Victory Without Quarter
Viva El Cristo Rey
Voice of the Guns
Volley & Bayonet
War Games Rules 3000 BC – 1485 AD 7th
Warfare in the Age of Reason
Wargame Rules 1685-1845
Wargamer's Guide to the ECW
Warhammer 40k (McCragge)
Warhammer Ancient Battles
Warmaster: Ancients
Warrewyk
Warring Empires
Warring Fleets
Warrior
Wilderness Wars
Yellow Ribbon

Damn. You're worse than me.

That is quite an impressive list. How many versions of DBA have you got?

My, that lot must be worth a few bob! Ever thought of selling?

@Martin: Just one (the latest 2.2). I've only been gaming for 3 or 4 years…

@Mike: Nope, I'm still in the "what don't I have yet" phase. Also, since they all reside in a very small and unused corner of the game room, getting more doesn't really add to clutter (well, now that I have them collected and organized).

EC, you're a sick, sick man. Let me help you. Send those to me. I'll keep them from you :)

"I've only been gaming for 3 or 4 years…"

I've been wargaming for well over 30 years and I'm sure I haven't got that many!

"Full Thrust"
- but not "More Thrust"? You're missing out!

"Horse, Foot, & Guns"
That's an interesting one, since it hasn't even been published yet!

"The Sword & the Flame"
- original or 20th Anniversary edition?

"War Games Rules 3000 BC – 1485 AD 7th"
Only 7th Ed.? That's probably the worst of the lot. You really should get 4th Edition, that's the one Charles Grant used.

Some others in your list were published 20+ years ago. What did you do – buy up job lots of second hand rules?

No I just mug little old ladies at wargaming conventions…

I'm pleased to see G.O.B.S.! made your list.

But you're missing The Dragonstone Wars. members.aol.com/dragonstonewars

Clearly, you must download and print these out and add them to your set, just because.

Damn enablers….

Just found another one…Schwere Kompanie rules for WW2..

Good gugga-mugga, dude. Wow, I don't know what to say. Good on ya.
Cheers,
Peter

So Mark, have I read before that you DID try the Flashpoint Vietnam rules? How did you like them again? I'm starting work on getting all the minis I bought from you painted and I want to play FPVN first and foremost. Just curious.

They do offer treatment for this sort of thing, Mark. And, no, it is not true that you can't die until you've played all the rules you own.

Hi Nazrat:

I played twice solo and once with a friend. The new edition they are working on is much more streamlined (more toward playable less toward simulation).

Its on the back burner but I am rewriting the rules myself staying at the simulation end of things…

Hey, if you feel like sharing any changes then I'm open to help play test!

Which empire? I still have Empire I, and Stars and Bars I.I thought I had alot of rules. If you need a place to keep it, a have a friend in NORTON,OH. that would lik me to pay her a visit. :)

Off hand I'm not sure which version of Empire it is. I bought it a while back – used and only gave it a quick read. I'll have to check…

""Horse, Foot, & Guns"
That's an interesting one, since it hasn't even been published yet!"

Well, that is not really true, they have been around in various forms for 10 years now. My favourite version is from the late 90s (back when it used the 1"=600p ground scale).

"Well, that is not really true, they have been around in various forms for 10 years now."

I meant published, as in formally published, not just a playtest set off Phil'e web site.

Rules you don't have: oldregimerules.com

I have no involvement with them except being a friend of the author online and a user of BAR. :)

Also, Standing Like a Wall rules for the Seven Years War by Ioannis Mavromichalis. Available as a PDF from his site: leuthenjournal.com

And of course, there's wargaming books that contain rules in them, such as many of the classics.