"Gene McCoy's Rules" Topic

I am looking for discussion and a copy of his Napoleonic, WW2 and ACW tactical/operational and campaign rules and maps as advertised and featured in his Wargamer's Digest.

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I may have the maps, but not the rules. Contact me off-list at: brianw0405ATgmailDOTcom
and I will take a look.
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As an old Wargamer, In WW2 I find his vehicle casting per unit very similar to what FoW uses based on my reading.

The " McCoy standard unit". Those were the days. I may yet have the WWII rules buried in a box somewhere Urbino. I will have a look when I get home.

I have a number of the old rules advertised in WD: Angriff, Pas deCharge, The Wargamer's Handbook, Wargamer's Guide to the American Revolution et. al. Are these the ones you are interested in? I don't think any of them were focused on using the McCoy standard unit. My email is : movingworld-at-aol.com.

Actually, I think his rules/scale/scenarios were all set at the same scale as Command Decision, namely each model represented a platoon.

You are correct aegiscg47. Each vehicle, for example, represented 5 real ones. I was aa early subsciber to Wargamers Digest and have the complete run. I remember how, in the end, I became disappointed when to fill space they resorted to republishing articles from various military magazines and even repeating their battle problems. I believe, by then, Mr McCoy had health problems. Still, along with the book/rules Battle! by Charles Grant and Angriff probably the most influential in molding my early gaming outlook and experiences.

I would love to get the MMWA CAMPAIGN RULES.

He never published the WWII rules. I recall paying in advance and never was refunded.

I thought Gene's WWII scenarios were based around Angriff! I could be misremembering. :-)

Good memory, Angriff was the usual suggested rules for his battle problems.

I still have my copy :-)

Have the original and several editions of Angriff, good memories of games with them, as well as a full run of Wargamers Digest. :)

Never saw the rules, only the magazine. I understood they were to be the greatest rules since sliced bread and to this day I would like to at least read through them. Glad I didn't build those three tables they played on!

"even repeating their battle problems." To this day I remember the solution to one battle problem was to move my units off table and re-enter it at the enemy's flank.

Hey! Wait a minute. If I can do that for one problem I can do that for all of them.

Yes, I seem to recall a few of those WD battle problems had what you might call Bullwinkle solutions:

"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat."

The solution always seemed to be unexpectedly marching in from the edge of the table. :-)

I'd say that overstates the case. I recall reading quite a few battle problems in WD that were solved by a fairly effective combined-arms operation without resorting to deux-ex-machina. And I missed the one where a flank march was the solution.

Agreed.

Well, check out WD Vol.11 No. 12.

Wow, talk about raising a thread from the dead. IIRC, many of his battle plan solutions had forces coming on from roads at the edge of the table. Not all, mind you, but some. That, of course, ignored the possibility that other forces might be present off board, or it requires a defender to guard all the table/roads in some fashion.

True, several of the Battle Stations had the 1 square = 1 foot grid superimposed over a larger map depiction.

Regards,

J. P. Kelly