"Rayner's Lane Franco-Prussian Rules" Topic
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vonLoudon | 31 Oct 2015 8:28 p.m. PST |
Does anyone have a copy of these rules? Believe written by Paul Cox. He wrote articles in Practical Wargamer. His figures were also featured in Stuart Asquith's Wargaming booklet as an insert in Military Modeling. I have kept that little booklet all these years. |
vonLoudon | 31 Oct 2015 8:33 p.m. PST |
Wow now that's a cross-post! |
Bill McHarg | 31 Oct 2015 8:54 p.m. PST |
Sorry, I deleted it. I set it up as a new topic. Not sure why it crossposted to this thread. |
vonLoudon | 31 Oct 2015 9:09 p.m. PST |
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Corto Maltese | 03 Nov 2015 8:58 a.m. PST |
Gosh! Stuart and I developed those rules together back in the 1980s. They went through a new iteration virtually every week, each of which got printed out on a dot matrix printer! They went down a line I ended up not wanting to pursue. They required a lot of book keeping, with units having a numerical status rating which was slowly whittled down – a bit like the later Principles of War series now I think about it. They were a radical reworking of a set called Nach Paris, published in The Courier, ultimately probably sharing only the unit sizes with the original. Our set used an artillery stick marked with the range bands corresponding to the French fuse settings. I can't remember whether that came from Nach Paris or not. Ultimately I changed tack and rebased my armies for use with They Died for Glory. And I'm afraid even if I could find a printout at home, it would probably mean as little to you as it would me thirty years on. As we used the set every week, a lot was never written down. Great that you still have the booklet. On the strength of the photographs in that, or perhaps the ones on the cover of Practical Wargamer, sales of the Foundry F-P range rocketed and Cliff Ansell contacted me to say I could order a load of figures free of charge in return. Good memories! Cheers Paul |
vonLoudon | 10 Nov 2015 9:55 a.m. PST |
Of course, Paul, I was always impressed with Practical Wargaming magazine where your club was often featured and I remember some references in Military Modeling. I have Charles Grants articles on French and Egypt. I had the PW magazine where you talked about Franco Prussian war and you gave some rudimentary clues to the rules. So I often wondered what they looked like whether Grant, Young, Featherstone, Wesencraft or some other old school mentor. Nach Paris I am familiar with it and I currently have that Courier issue I believe. I have to say though that I was so impressed with that wargame booklet and the beautifully painted Franco Prussian figures that I wrote to Foundry and asked to be a US representative. Somebody in Ohio got the job, but they are one of the best 25/28 figure ranges of all time in my opinion. Nice to make your acquaintance. I almost met Stuart at Fall In in Gettysburg. I did leave him a note and don't know if he received it or not. So PW is at the top of my list of wargame magazines. Cheers. Maynard |
vonLoudon | 10 Nov 2015 4:59 p.m. PST |
It happened here above. see my comment and I saw it on another page as well. A crosspost glitch? |
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