"Bruce Quarrie Rules Yahoo Group?" Topic

I am wondering if there would be any interest / participation in a Yahoo Group (or something similar) dedicated to the playing rules of the late Bruce Quarrie?

As far as I know he published specific rulesets covering the Napoleonic, WW2, and Arab-Israeli wars. There may be others.

I still like these rules but have no sense for how many people out there still use them, or have developed them further, or what.

If there's a reasonable critical mass, we could perhaps star one up. I'd be interested to see latter-day photos of a Quarrie rules based army. The odd thing about some of his books was that the photos of battles did not appear to be of armies based per his rules….

I would be interested in such a group.

I base all my plastic 1:72 wargame units on a modified Quarrie system. All in single ranks, a ratio of 1:30, giving British battalions of 20 and French of 18 (both as average field strengths as opposed to the larger full establishment strengths). I use 15mm per figure for units really in 2 ranks and 10mm per figure for those really in 3 ranks. This gives historically accurate frontages. I keep my infantry base depth to 15mm, which often means that bayonets stick out, but as plastic they do not get damaged and I base them slightly angled if I need to have bayonets going through the gaps in front ranks when in column. The infantry units look really close order and therefore Napoleonic.

I own a copy of the Quarrie rules (or to be exact his one on Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature). I have never however played them, but have used my basing in many other rules systems.

Rod

Put me down as well. Very interested.

I am interested as well. I've got the Airfix WW2 guide.

I am interested… some very good rules there…

I'm in!

It was my first introduction to Napoleonic Gaming – yes of course – nostalgia is a very potent emotion

Great idea. Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature was such an exciting book when I first got it. I still have a copy of the airfix version.

I'd be interested as well. They were my first introduction to Napoleonic miniatures wargaming.

My own rules are based on Bruce Quarrie's and the precursor set published by Steven Tulk. So although I often play with Black Powder, my figures are based 1:33 with a compressed frontage of 6mm per figure based on 1mm represents 2 paces similar to the original. Over the years of subsequent development of my own rules, I have added some bits, eg command & control, and simplified others.

On my blog you can see one of my games in action using Black Powder, but with a Bruce Quarrie inspired artillery base still in use;
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So yes I would definitely join such a group.

Regards

Garry

I've misplaced my copy of Quarrie's Napoleonic rules, but I would be interested. I still plan Napoleonic units for other systems at Quarrie's 1:33!

Yes me too.

Thanks for feedback all.

I'm laboriously building up Austrians and French of 1805-7. I am finding that certain compromises are required re basing and so forth, essentially because modern 28mm figures don't fit into the spaces suggested. This has knock on effects everywhere else.

There's also a boo-boo in the casualty tables that needs fixing.

The group I used to play with is no more, but I remember we made a few mods to the rules that I thought quite helpful and we also eventually pieced together how personality figures were supposed to work. Given the dearth of Austrian and Prussina figures around when the Steve Tulk rules were written (about 1970 I think) I rather suspect these two armies were never actually playtested – they were certainly very hard to win with.

Steve Tulk is on LinkedIn. There's a thought.

I also played a few WW2 games and liked those rules too, although the ABCDE classification of gun/armour seemed a bit crude. Never played his Arab Israeli rules and in fact I flogged them quite recently. I recall he must have just bought his first pair of percentage dice.

I have now set this group – Bruce Quarrie Rules OK – up at

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so I guess if interested, head on over and apply to join up.

Then we can figure out what to do with it!

OK, we are up and running; I have posted photos of my most recently painted 1805 French line unit, and also an Excel version of the tank fire effects rules given in Bruce's Arab-Israeli book.