"Which WWII Ruleset Do You Have the Most Experience With?" Topic

In other words, which ruleset have you gamed the most battles with? With which ruleset have you logged the most gaming time? Which ruleset have you had the most tabletop experience with, even if only solo?

Command Decision. Picked it up when it first came out, upgraded through to the latest version.

Played lots of others, but CD has the best "feel" to me.

Arc of Fire--land skirmish
GQ2 and Fire on the Waters (about equal)--naval
Airforce/Dauntless --air

"1944": used to play it a *lot* After that, CD, I suppose.

Nowadays I enjoy BKC and IABSM more, though.

Allen

My greatest experience is with Command Decision III, but this amounts to only a few games in the last 15+ years. I probably own most higher level WWII rule sets (i.e. non-skirmish), but will now buy Blitzkrieg Commander after having just received and skimmed a copy of Cold War Commander.

Probably Command Decision, followed closely by PBI. Although I haven't played Command Decision in a long time I have all 4 versions of the ruleset and have logged the most time playing it.

Recently I've been playing PBI and am most familiar with those rules at the moment.

We've also played BKC and we're planning a new campaign.

Every now and then, some friends would pull out a home brewed set of rules that the called "Platoon Leader". Good game, but I never got to play it that much.
Then, 4 of our group decided to try out some of the rules out there, and Flames of War was the first choice. We like it, so we stuck with it.
There are some loopy moments in the game (to say the least), but it gives a good feel, and that is what it's all about. It gives us a chance to paint tanks, and exchange trash talk.

I 've played flames of war more than any other ruleset too.

"Battleground"

Played many games before I burnt out on the rules. They were great and opened new doors for platoon level games. I just burnt out on too many dice rolls, but a very good system.

"I Ain't Been Shot, Mum" is next and is currently my favorite.

Just started playing "Troops, Weapons & Tactics". I like the idea, but haven't gotten a good feel for the rules yet. I've only played 3 games.

Can't play CD for several reasons, but know several gamers who do and one that that is almost the only rules he games.

Battleground WWII for me. Been playing it fir 10+ years now I think and I just don't need anything else to get me through my gaming but it.

Brian

Arc of Fire

Nuts!

Played weekly games of Battleground for two years, and they totally burned me out on skirmish. Then I moved and was introduced to Arc of Fire, very similar but AoF makes more sense and has a nice efficiency to it that I enjoy.

Above skirmish I've had most experience with BattleFront (from the Fire and Fury Fellas) and find they work quite well giving a good game with the right feel and very little weirdness.

Aside from that I've played some CD and a little Flames of War (which I didn't care for at all.)

1)15mm Flames of War.
2)20mm Easy Eight's Battleground WWII.
3)1/285 Spearhead.

Interesting that there's only two Flames of War responses on the list so far?

Our gaming group have played FoW for years and branched into WW1 FoW and are looking now at a FoW Modern…

Personally I'm a Platoon level gamer so stick with Disposable Heroes.

Command Decision 4 (Test of Battle), mainly because that's what my friends like to play. I'd like to play more Kampfgruppe Commander 2.

Soldat

Crossfire and my own rules based on them 'Company Commander'.

Thanks,

John

Tractics – which tells you how long its been since I actually played a WW2 wargame (aside from a demo of "Nuts")

Wyatt

Command Decision I or II (probably II). I own II and IV but haven't played them. CD I was one of my first rules sets.

Rich

Battlefront: WWII. It's the only set of rules that feels right to me.

Disposable Heroes – 50%
Rapid Fire – 30%
Arc of Fire – 10%
A Corner of Hell – 10%

Flames of War. Fast and fun. I've been playing it since soon after it hit the States.

Brian

Rapid Fire
BKC
Disposible Heroes

FoW, no question.

Bit of Blitzkrieg Commander, bit of Rapid Fire years ago and one game of Command Decision. FoW just nailed it for me.

WRG micro armor but haven't played in decades. Done some FOW a coupla' tears ago (have italians) but nothing recently.

Paul

Command Decision (from 1st ed on) for me, although I now prefer to play BKC, IABSM, or Rapid Fire. As I get older I reguire less bells and whistles on a rules set to have a good time.

DHC7B

Sadly Piquet

You don't play the best rules, you go along to get along.

mjc

Flames of War. I don't play or like the game anymore.

Skirmish – NUTS, before that Battleground WWII and Arc of Fire.

Company + – PBI and PBI II then Flames of War (a lot), then BKC – nowadays tend to stay with Platoon and below though to be honest.

Memoir 44 – on a hex table in 10mm has tended to take over the Company + stuff.

Rich J

Rapid fire – company/battalion level

SOTR 1949 – Belllum Europa – Platoon level ww2 and www2

BKC

This is very hard to answer,I have played so many different ones for WW2 and I'm always chopping and changing.

In the 70s & 80s it was probably WRG 1925-50, 90s, probably Spearhead, and now??? I really couldn't say. Maybe Megablitz in terms of gaming duration (generally play all day games for that), but in terms of numbers of battles probably homegrown stuff, either my variant of TAC:WW2 or 'A Platoon Commanders War' or 'Battlegroup' by John Armatys.

Crossfire by a very large margin.

WRG 1920-50 when playing with experienced and knowledgeable WW2 buffs.

Rapid Fire when playing with young naval ratings to try and convince them the hobby does not start and end with Warhammer.

Beer and Pretzels Skirmish

Chain Reaction modified for WWII (back when "Nuts" was probably still an idea in Ed Texiera's mind)

I guess I like a little chaos in my games ;-)

Since no one else has mentioned it… Bill, why did you want to know??

"why did you want to know??"

I imagine the responses will appear as a poll in future.

Battlefront:WW2

Mike

BKC here. and AK47 Homewbrewed

Pat

"I Ain't Been Shot Mum" – 300+ games (almost three games a week at times!)

Panzermarsch for me the most realistic of rules so far. Apart from the one i play with a few freinds ocasionally wich ar home brew.

Marc

My group has played so many RCW games now that I'd have to say "Red Actions" from The Perfect Captain.

Started with TAC WW2, switched to Crossfire, then GHQ Microarmour rules, now homemade one page rules… for old, lazy brains.

Crossfire. Hands down.
Peter

Troops, Weapons and Tactics for me. Looked for a set of platoon rules we liked for a long time and these did the trick.

Spearhead & Crossfire

Initially BattleFront WW2, now exclusively Rapid Fire!

Honourable mention must go to Arc of Fire. I played an Eastern Front game at a Con and was very impressed by its playability and historical feel.

Command Decision and Disposible Heroes

Battleground for me.

Ed