"Hi my name's Extra Crispy and I'm a rules addict..." Topic

Having won a few cheapo auctions my rules collection crossed over 300 titles today. I'd guess they are 90% historical. For the morbidly curious, they are:

1859 19th Century
1870 Franco-Prussian War
5150 SciFi
.45 Adventures Pulp
.45 Adventures: Super Science Tales SciFi
.45 Adventures: Thrilling Expeditions Pulp
A Call to Arms SciFi
A Good Day to Die Plains Indians
A La Baionette Napoleonics
A Nation On Trial (ACW) ACW
A Perfect Sheet of Flame ACW
Aces At Dawn Air – WW1
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade Napoleonics
Aeronef SciFi
Age of Battles Napoleonics
Age of Eagles Napoleonics
AK-47 Modern
All the King's Men Horse & Musket
All Things Zombie SciFi
Ambush Alley Modern
American Battlelines Horse & Musket
Among the War Parties Horse & Musket
Ancient Empires Pre-Gunpowder
Ancient Warfare (Gore) Pre-Gunpowder
Angriff WW2
Arc of Fire WW2
Armati Pre-Gunpowder
Armati – Advanced Renaissance
Armati 2nd. Ed Pre-Gunpowder
Arriba Espana Spanish Civil War
Art of War Pre-Gunpowder
Axis & Allies Naval – WW2
Axis & Allies WW2
Barraka Spanish Civil War
Battle Stations! Battle Stations! Naval – WW2
Battlefield Evolution Modern
Battlefield Evolution: World At War WW2
Battlefleet Gothic SciFi
Battlefront WW2
Battleground WW2
Battlegroup Panzer Grenadier WW2
Bayonets & Ideology Spanish Civil War
Beamstrike SciFi
Before I Was A Marshall I Was A Grenadier Napoleonics
Beneath the Lily Banners Renaissance
Bitter Angels ACW
Black Powder Battles Horse & Musket
Black Powder Gaming (A.G.S.) Horse & Musket
Blitzkrieg Commander WW2
Bloody Picnic Inter-War (1919-1939)
Body Count Vietnam
Broadsword Adventures Fantasy
Brother Against Brother ACW
C.A.V. SciFi
Canvas Eagles Air – WW1
Captain General Renaissance
Chain Reaction SciFi
Chainmail Pre-Gunpowder
Charge of the Light Brigade Crimean War
Chassepot & Needlegun Franco-Prussian War
Check Your 6! Air – WW2
Chef de Bataillon Napoleonics
Chosen Men Horse & Musket
Civil War Battles (RFCM) ACW
Coastal Command Naval – WW2
Cold Steel & Canister Napoleonics
Coldwar Commander Modern
Colonial Adventures Colonials
Column, Line & Square Napoleonics
Command At Sea
Command Decision (3rd) WW2
Command Decision: Test of Battle WW2
Command Horizon SciFi
Company Commander WW2
Crimean War Battle Rules Crimean War
Crossfire WW2
Crusader Historicla Rules Ancients
Day of Battle Ancients
Day of Battle III: On Holy Ground Pre-Gunpowder
Days of Empire Crimean War
Days of Glory ACW
Days of Iron Franco-Prussian War
DBA Pre-Gunpowder
DBACW: An ACW Supplement for DBA ACW
DBN Napoleonics
Deguello Mexican-American War
Desperado Old West
Dirtside II SciFi
Disposable Heroes WW2
Dreadnought Naval – WW1
Eagles to Glory Napoleonics
Eagles, Crowns & Oak Leaves WW2
Elan Deluxe Napoleonics
Empire Napoleonics
Epic Armageddon SciFi
Esprit de Corps: A House Divided ACW
Face of Battle WW2
Fantastic Worlds SciFi
Fast and Dirty 4th Ed. SciFi
Fast Play Grande Armee Napoleonics
Fear God and Dread Nought Naval – WW1
Field of Glory Pre-Gunpowder
Final Argument of Kings SYW
Fire & Discipline Horse & Musket
Fire & Fiasco Crimean War
Fire & Furia 19th Century
Fire & Fury ACW
Fire & Fury – Regimental Horse & Musket
Fire When Ready Naval – Pre-Dreadnought
Fire! Ogon! Feuer! WW2
Firepower: Big Guns & Cordite Naval – WW1
Fistful of TOWs Modern
Flames of War WW2
Flashpoint Vetnam Reloaded Vietnam
Flashpoint Vietnam Vietnam
Flying Circus Air – WW1
FNG Vietnam
FNG Unconventional Warfare Vietnam
Force on Force Modern
Forlorn Hope (1987) English Civil War
Forlorn Hope (2002) English Civil War
From the Delta to the DMZ Vietnam
From Valmy to Waterloo Napoleonics
Full Thrust SciFi
Future War Commander SciFi
G.O.B.S. SciFi
Ga Pa Great Northern War
Galactic Knights SciFi
General de Brigade Napoleonics
General Quarters I Naval – WW2
General Quarters II Naval – WW1
General Quarters III Naval – WW2
General Quarters: Fleet Action Imminent Naval – WW1
Gloire Horse & Musket
God's Acre Pre-Gunpowder
Grand Army ACW
Grand Tactics Napoleonics
Grande Armee Napoleonics
Green Blood and Red Blood for Mars SciFi
Green Jackets & Voltigeurs Napoleonics
Grognards & Grenadiers Napoleonics
Grunts! Vietnam
Grunts, Leathernecks & Charlie Vietnam
Guard du Corps Napoleonics
Guns at Gettysburg ACW
Gutshot Old West
Hammer's Slammers SciFi
Harpoon 4.1 Naval – Modern
Hey You In the Jail! Old West
High Water Mark ACW
Honor & Glory ACW
Hoplomachia Pre-Gunpowder
Hordes of the Things Fantasy
Horse, Foot, & Guns Napoleonics
Huzzah! Napoleonics
I Ain't BeenShot Mum WW2
Impetus Pre-Gunpowder
In the Name of Glory 2006 Napoleonics
In the Name of Glory 4th Ed. Napoleonics
In the Name of Glory 5th Ed. Napoleonics
Iron Brigade ACW
Ironclads Naval – Ironclads
John Company Colonials
Johnny Reb III ACW
Kampfgruppe Commander WW2
Killer Katanas Samurai
King David Ancients
Kriegspiel Horse & Musket
Lace Wars Horse & Musket
Lance 3rd. Ed Pre-Gunpowder
Larger Than Life Pulp
Launch Fighters! SciFi
Le Feu Sacre Napoleonics
Le Petit Empereur Napoleonics
Legacy of Glory Napoleonics
Legendary Battles Pre-Gunpowder
Legends of Araby Fantasy
Legends of the High Seas Pirates
Legends of the Old West Old West
Legion & Empire Ancients
Les Champs de Bataille Napoleonics
Lord of the Rings Fantasy
March Toward the Sound of Guns Napoleonics
Martian Empires SciFi
Maximilian! Renaissance
Mayhem: Warrior Heroes Fantasy
Medals of Valor Modern
Megablitz WW2
Mein Panzer WW2
Mekong Vietnam Vietnam
Metropolis: Battle Force Conflicts SciFi
Mexicanski 36 Spanish Civil War
Micro Force The Game: ACW ACW
MicroArmor: The Game WW2
Micronauts: The Game Naval – WW2
Might & Reason SYW
Might of Arms Pre-Gunpowder
Mighty Armies: Ancients Ancients
Minie Ball ACW
Modern Ops Modern
Montjoie! Pre-Gunpowder
Moriturie et salutant Gladiators
Muzzle Blast ACW
Napoleonette Napoleonics
Napoleonic Warfare (Gore) Napoleonics
Napoleon's Battles (1st) Napoleonics
Napoleon's Battles (2nd) Napoleonics
Napoleon's Eagles Napoleonics
No Go Zone Modern
Nuts! WW2
Nuts! 2nd Edition WW2
NWS: Naval Warfare WW2 Naval – WW2
OGRE SciFi
Over There Modern
Over There 1900-1929 WW1
Panzer Korps WW2
Pieces of Eight Horse & Musket
Piquet (Core Rules) Horse & Musket
Polemos: Commandant de Bataille 19th Century
Polemos: Crisis of Allegiance ACW
Polemos: General de Division Napoleonics
Polemos: Great Northern War Horse & Musket
Polemos: Kommandant der Armee 19th Century
Polemos: Marechal de Empire Napoleonics
Polemos: On They Came ACW
Polemos: War of Spanish Succession Horse & Musket
Polemos; English Civil War English Civil War
Poor Bloody Infantry WW2
Pro Gloria SYW
Pro Patria Napoleonics
Raiders & Blockaders Naval – ACW
Rally Round the Flag ACW
Rank & File Horse & Musket Rules 1740-1900 Horse & Musket
Rebel Yell! ACW
Red Actions Russian Civil War
Red Sand Blue Sky Gladiators
Redcoats & Rebels AWI
Republic & Empire Crimean War
Republique Napoleonics
Revenge Pre-Gunpowder
Revolution & Empire Napoleonics
Rules for Napoleonic Land Warfare Napoleonics
Santa Anna Mexican-American War
Schweree Kompanie WW2
Seeing the Elephant ACW
Seekrieg Naval – WW2
Serenissima Naval – Renaissance
Shako Napoleonics
Shako & Musket Crimean War
Shako II Napoleonics
Sharp Practice Napoleonics
Sharpe's Skirmish Napoleonics
Sides of Steel Naval – Pre-Dreadnought
Signal Close Action Naval – Age of Sail
Six Gun Sound Old West
Six Gun Sound: Blaze of Glory Old West
Skirmish Fire Plains Indians
Skyfight Air – Modern
Smoke on the Water Naval -ACW
Spanish Fury Renaissance
Starmada X SciFi
Stars & Bars (ACW) ACW
Starship Troopers SciFi
Steel Crush SciFi
Stringbags! Air – WW1
Sturmovik Commander Air – WW2
Supreme Warlord: Blood Lust Fantasy
Sword In Gaul, The Ancients
Sword, Bayonet, Lance Napoleonics
Tactica Medieval Pre-Gunpowder
Task Force Naval – WW2
Tercio 5th ed Renaissance
The Gatling's Jammed! Colonials
The Great War WW1
The Sword & the Flame Colonials
There Are Your Guns! 19th Century
They Couldn't Hit An Elephant ACW
They Died for Glory Franco-Prussian War
Tien-Len! Vietnam
Tigers & Stalins WW2
To the Banners Renaissance
To the Sound of the Guns 3rd Napoleonics
Traflagar Naval – Age of Sail
Trench Wars WW1
Triumph of the Will Spanish Civil War
Two Hundred Years Horse & Musket
Uncharted Seas Naval – Fantasy
Urban War: Strike Team Actions SciFi
Valmy to Waterloo Napoleonics
Valor & Steel & Flesh SciFi
Victorian Warfare (Gore) 19th Century
Victory At Sea Naval – WW2
Victory At Sea Age of Dreadnoughts Naval – WW1
Victory On The Rivers Naval – Ironclads
Victory Without Quarter English Civil War
Viva El Cristo Rey Spanish Civil War
Voice of the Guns Crimean War
Volley & Bayonet Horse & Musket
Volley & Bayonet: Road to Glory Horse & Musket
War at Sea Naval – WW2
War Games Rules 3000 BC – 1485 AD 7th Ancients
War of the Ring (LoTR) Fantasy
Warfare in the Age of Reason Horse & Musket
Wargame Rules 1685-1845 Horse & Musket
Wargamer's Guide to the ECW English Civil War
Warhammer 40k (McCragge) SciFi
Warhammer Ancient Battles Pre-Gunpowder
Warmaster: Ancients Pre-Gunpowder
Warpaint 19th Century
Warrewyk Pre-Gunpowder
Warring Empires Pre-Gunpowder
Warring Fleets Naval – Fantasy
Warrior Pre-Gunpowder
Warrior Heroes Fantasy
Wilderness Wars F&IW
Wire to Wire Other – Horse Racing
Yellow Ribbon Plains Indians

Wow, just wow. You even have ours. You are an addict….

And I've read them too!

What makes it worse is I have no interested in gaming any period prior to 1700 even…I just like reading rule books I guess.

May I ask what the purpose of collecting all of these rules is? I get that we're hobbyists and we both collect things and stuff just seems to pile up. But is there some reason you collect rule sets?

One of the guys in our club calls himself a rule collector and it always puzzled me. Unless you are using them, why have them? Assuming you don't play them all, why have 300 sets?

Why not?

Good question. I started buying them for my business – that way when a customer wanted a unit built for, say, General de Brigade I knew how many figures, what size bases he might need, etc. But then it took on a life of its own. They live in the basement in two file cabinets so take up very little space.

On the other hand I hardly have any unpainted lead around and I don't save minis "just in case." If I don't need the last jeep in the pack I sell it, give it away, etc. So my entire unpainted lead collection would easily fit in one large storage tub.

I always ask the same about people who have 20,000 pieces of unpainted lead in boxes in the basement (I'm looking at you mweaver and neotacha). Why have stuff you know you;ll never really get to?

Buying them is bgad enough, but listing them?

AND here is another you can add to your collection:

PDF link

Hi Extra Crispy!

I'm a rules addict too, but I cannot compare with you for volume.

You're cheating yourself if you don't obtain a copy of Ambush Blitz. Some excellent concepts and nice presentation.

Jim

Ahah…you haven't got a copy of "Code Napoleon" though…have ya, eh?? :)

Cheers Andy

Shock of Impact?

Rules are like the Holy Grail, you search and search but can never find the REAL thing.

Glad to see G.O.B.S.! on your list. Hope you enjoyed reading them, at the very least.

I too collect rules— in fact, I was just on the Hasbro sight today downloading their free PDFs from various games (including striking gold by finding Heroquest and the various Quest books for it, all their, all PDF, all free!).

On the other hand, I have no where near as many as you list; I do tend to look for specific genres, games or types of rules. And mostly I go for free stuff, unless I have a really strong interest.

Air Power
Flint and Steel
G.I. Commander
Guns of Liberty
Panzer War
Patriots and Loyalists
Ship o' the Line

Am I driving you crazy yet?

Think of all the things that you could have done in the same amount of time that It took to list all of them. That is time that you can never get back. Impressive list.

When can we expect to see the review of all these rules on your website?

GOOD LORD MAN !! you dont have Little Wars !! the Rules that started it all.

Hi Mark

You've not got Pike & Plunder – bit.ly/zARIr – the strain of all these purchases must be telling. :-)

--
Martin Stephenson
Vexillia: Wargames Miniatures & Accessories
vexillia.ltd.uk

Buying them is bgad enough, but listing them?

Let alone playing them.

Seriously, guys. He probably has them catalogued and just copied and pasted the list.

And you don't have Vis Bellica and Vis Magica!

Tell you what, you order a copy of one and I'll bung in the other for free. I doin't like to think that your list isn't complete!

visbellica.com

R

How about Boot Hill first ed. more miniature then RPG.

How can you call yourself a rules addict when you don't even have a copy of Howard Whitehouse's Science v. Pluck?

Nice collection. You are missing Babylons Burning, Combat Zone, Warzone and Skank.

Extra, I thought you were only supposed to give your first name at support group meetings?

:)

I dont have anywhere near the collection Mark has but I would have to say I am a rules collector/reader. I read way more than I would ever play and I enjoy reading them. I am always looking for the holy grail.

Rules today, collectibles tomorrow. You're rich

"May I ask what the purpose of collecting all of these rules is?"

Because he wants them? Heck, we're ALL a little obsessive/compulsive in this hobby, aren't we? I have a lot of rules I have bought that I don't play, too. Not NEARLY as many as EC, but a fair few. I just like reading them and seeing how authors approach different eras and different situations that come up in games.

As others say above, how is it any odder than buying thousands of miniatures that never get painted or played?

"Seriously, guys. He probably has them catalogued and just copied and pasted the list."

Actually the list IS cut and pasted-- from the last two threads he started on the exact same topic. He just adds more to the list each time…

And apparently REALLY likes us all to know about it! 8)=

TMP link

TMP link

The first step getting help is to admit you have a problem. I think EC is trying hard to do so.

Heck with the rules though, I want to see what's in mweaver and neotacha's basement.

I'm a rules junkie too in 1997 I set up a site to show off rules from our club members.

Then other people started sending in rules, then in 2000 I bought a domain name.

Now I link to and host over 1,000 sets of rules. Just when I think there can be no other sets of rules out there someone sends me a link to another set.

Of course I cut and paste…of course, since I sell/stock a lot of rules I had a head start with just that list. But yes, I like to read and steal good ideas from all kinds of rules sets!

I am impressed

What Mark you don't have a copy of Rusty's Rules.Rob

Now Damn it you have gone and done it. I had a listing of all my rules before the move but now everything is packed. I know in the past few years I have downloaded over 100 sets of rules and scenario books off the net. Last count I was in the area of 60 or so just Napoleonic. I just picked up four or five at the FLGS this past week that they were getting ready to scrap.
VR
James Mattes

You know that Extra Crispy started this thread just so he could find out more titles he doesn't have, so that he could further indulge his addiction. And some of you are enabling him? For shame!…

Actually I stumbled on a few that I had missed…

"The Complete Brigadier" is still available.

I am not worthy.

Hello Crispy,

I would like to get your copy of 'Angriff', 'Face of Battle, or 'Fire & Fury – Regimental Horse & Musket'
on trade for a copy of my 'Tractics'

I tried to email you, but guess there is no way of doing that on here. My email: irishwop67@aol.com

Joe

May I suggest USX: Modern Day Heroes? :D
And don't forget FUBAR! It's one page long!