"Wargame Rules with Slide rules?" Topic

In cleaning out his office, my boss came across some specialty slide rules. Like one for determining the right diameter for a chimney.

This got me thinking about rules with slide rules.
I can only think of one. That is "Trench – World War I trench warfare rules"

A nice circular one for calculating casualties for bombardment and such.

Any others?

Well, my copy of "Effects of Nuclear Weapons" has a multi-functional circular one.

Oh, wait … not that kind of game.

Birds of Prey uses nomograms: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram They look like nightmares, but they eliminate a huge amount of serious math in favor of drawing straight lines!

What are slide rules?

Lots of classic games…. once upon a time in the west? Lots of naval rules, and at least one rule system for armour warfare?

Can't remember all the names.

I once had a slide rule stolen from me.
I may be the last human on Earth to make that claim.

Still have mine!

I had to have a slide rule in High School back in the 60s!

I was a child of the 70's and 80's but my dad made sure I knew how to use a slide rule. Mind you, my dad did also have a patent on a couple of slide rules of his own for specialty calculations but then he was an actual rocket scientist.

I had to use a slide rule in junior high.

My class in HS ('73) was probably one of the last to have to learn to use a slide rule. The one good thing about a slide rule is you have to have a general idea of the magnitude of the answer to use one.

When I was helping my kids with HS Math and Chemistry (about 10 years ago) they'd forever be punching in numbers into their calculators, announcing the answers, and I'd say "well, that's wrong", already having the answer in my head!

Garbage in, garbage out, as they say!

I had a circular device when I was taking private pilot lessons, many many years ago. Shoot, I had one for diving too.

And somewhere I have those western rules with the circular one.

I had several slide rules, my Dad taught math.

Still have two in a box of old stuff I'm too stubborn to throw out. Have to drag them out and demo them for my grandson while I explain that we used them when we lived in log cabins with dirt floors, candles and outdoor toilets.

Dan

There was a Napoleonic set that had a circle slide rule for casualty calculation. Can't remember by who. It was also a pamphlet. Maybe the same company?

I have a slide rule.
Last used it in the early 70s.

I think the current trend for people to totally rely on their calculator app totally strips them of any maths understanding.
They don't need to, so they just give up and have zero understanding.

This morning the bloke at a till told me my bill was 11 something. I handed him a 20 pound note. He said and that's…. big long pause as his till was very slow doing the maths. I said the answer. He looked at me in amazement, like I was a maths genius or something.
My word.
The old buffer can actually do subtraction IN HIS HEAD!!!

I tell you.
The youth of today.
Their manners have gone.
Their brains have gone.
We're breeding idiots.
Idiots, I tell you.

They should whip em more.
Bring back national service.
Forced maths.

Now.
Where's me false teeth and hearing aid?
What's that you say, young man?

We learned how to use slide rules in the 1970s, they are only applied logarithms.

By the time I went to University in 1980 though, a mandatory course requirement was a scientific calculator.

On my Photographic Interpretation course in 1993 we used them!!

Tally Ho!

Bought a brand new set in the mid 1980s. A school bookshop had a bunch on massive clearance. They were copywrite 195X I think? I gave them to my father-in-law who is an engineer. Still brand new, never used in leather cases along with a pristine how to book. It has them in an awards display box and gets a kick out of looking at them.

My high school chemistry teacher required us to use a slide rule; this was 78-80 I think.

I kept the slide rule for some time into adulthood but I'm sure I got rid of it in a move eventually.

I've used an E6B circular slide rule for aerial navigation, but I've yet to use one for 'terrestrial' math. I do have a tad of experience using nomograms, though.

"I had to have a slide rule in High School back in the 60s!"
The slide rule was the reason I did get an A on a college physics exam and not have one right answer. (I did show all my work down to actually attempting to work out the answer with the sliderule.)