 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Mar 2016 3:42 p.m. PST |
Do you consider yourself a collector of Napoleonic-period wargaming rulesets? |
| nsolomon99 | 23 Mar 2016 3:57 p.m. PST |
Absolutely. One of the basic tenets of Napoleonic Wargaming is it is impossible to have too many sets of Rules in one's Library. |
 Extra Crispy  | 23 Mar 2016 4:00 p.m. PST |
Not really.At the moment my collection only consists of (excluding some rules that cover the entire Horse & Musket period like Black Powder or Volley & Bayonet):
- 12 Pounder
- Belle Alliance 2nd Ed.
- Bonaparte
- Code Napoleon
- Column, Line & Square 2nd Ed
- Column, Line & Square 3rd Ed
- Eagles Over The Empire
- Grand Battles Napoleon
- Grenadier
- If Only We Could All Be Napoleon
- Look, Sarge, No Charts: Napoleonic Wars
- Muskets and Moustaches
- Valeur et Discipline
- 1805 (Napoleonic)
- 1st Empire, The Napoleonic Wargame Rules
- A to Z Rules: Campaigns of Napoleon
- Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
- Age of Battles
- Age of Eagles
- Age of Glory
- Banners & Bayonets
- Battailonmasse
- Battles for Empire
- Before I Was A Marshall I Was A Grenadier
- Blucher
- Capitan
- Chef de Bataillon
- Cold Steel & Canister
- Commit the Garde!
- Company Commander
- Corps d'Armee
- Covered With Glory: Tactical Level Rules
- Dawn's Early Light Second Edition
- DBN 1.0
- DBN 2.1
- Divisional Commander
- Eagles At Quatre Bras
- Eagles to Glory
- Eagles, Swords & Bayonets
- Easy Napoleonic Rules
- Elan Deluxe
- Empire IV
- En Avant
- Et Sans Resultat!
- Fast Play Grande Armee
- Fate of Battle (Look sarge, No Charts!)
- Field of Glory: Napoleonics
- Fire & Steel
- First in the Field
- Frappe
- From Valmy to Waterloo
- General de Brigade
- General de Brigade Deluxe Edition
- Generalship Napoleonics
- Grand Battery
- Grand Manouevre: Black Powder and Blue Steel
- Grand Tactics
- Grande Armee
- Green Jackets & Voltigeurs
- Grognards & Grenadiers
- Guard du Corps
- Gunboat!
- Horse, Foot, & Guns
- Houserules Napoleonics
- Huzzah! 1st Ed.
- Imperial Guard
- Imperial Guard II
- Imperial Lances
- In The Grand Manner
- In The Grand Manner 2nd ed.
- In The Name Of Glory
- In the Name of Glory 2006
- In the Name of Glory 4th Ed.
- In the Name of Glory 5th Ed.
- La Grand Guerre
- Lasalle
- Le Feu Sacre 1st Ed.
- Le Feu Sacre 2nd Ed.
- Le Feu Sacre 3rd Ed.
- Le Jeu de La Guerre
- Le Kriegspiel
- Le Petit Empereur
- Le Vol de L'aigle
- Legacy of Glory
- Les Champs de Bataille
- Les Grognards
- March Attack
- March Toward the Sound of Guns
- Mayhem: Warring Nations
- Micro Napoleonics
- Muskets & Shakos
- NapoleoN
- Napoleon (Wargames Foundry, 2009)
- Napoleon At War
- Napoleonic Command 2nd. Ed.
- Napoleonic Command: A Study In Grand Tactics
- Napoleonic Game of War
- Napoleonic Grand Campaigns
- Napoleonic Rules for Large-scale Wargames with Small-scale Miniatures
- Napoleonic Warfare (Gore)
- Napoleonic Warfare 1813c
- Napoleonic Warfare Grand Tactical Rules 3rd (Bell)
- Napoleonic Warfare: Rules for Wargames 4th Ed.
- Napoleonique
- Napoleonique Encore
- Napoleon's Battles (1st) BOXED SET
- Napoleon's Battles (2nd)
- Napoleon's Battles (3rd) BOXED SET
- Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature
- Napoleon's Eagles
- Napoleon's War
- Old Trousers
- Once Upon A Time In The Western Peninsula
- One Day Napoleonic Campaign
- Orders to Eagles
- Pas de Charge!
- Piquet: Les Grognards
- Playable Napoleonic Wargames
- Polemos: Napoleonics
- Polemos: Napoleonics 2nd Ed.
- Port & Cigars
- Pro Patria
- Republic to Empire
- Republique
- Revolution & Empire
- Rules for Napoleonic Land Warfare
- Rules for the Napoleonic Period
- Rules for Wargames: Napoleonic Warfare 2nd. Ed.
- Sabres!
- Shako
- Shako II
- Sharp Practice
- Sharpe's Skirmish
- Short Attention Span Napoleonics
- Snappy Nappy
- Song of Drums and Shakos
- Sound the Charge
- Sword, The Bayonet and the Lance, The
- To the Sound of the Guns 1st ed.
- To the Sound of the Guns 2nd Ed.
- To the Sound of the Guns 3rd Ed.
- Tout Soldat: Napoleonic Wargames Rules for the Competition Player
- Tremble Ye Tyrants
- Tricolor (Crane)
- Tricolor (Kinzer)
- Twilight of Empire
- Uncle Duke's Napoleonette
- Valeur et Discipline
- Vive L'Empereur
- Volley & Bayonet
- Voltigeur
- Warfare in the Age of Napoleon
- Wargame, The
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| Bashytubits | 23 Mar 2016 4:00 p.m. PST |
Not anymore, I have sold most of them off. |
| Bohdan Khmelnytskij | 23 Mar 2016 4:24 p.m. PST |
No General D Brigade second edition? |
| Mute Bystander | 23 Mar 2016 4:41 p.m. PST |
No. I have two Two Hour Wargames sets but not a major attraction at this time in my life. |
| Grognard1789 | 23 Mar 2016 4:47 p.m. PST |
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dragon6  | 23 Mar 2016 5:09 p.m. PST |
Extracrispy which do you prefer? |
| John Miller | 23 Mar 2016 6:49 p.m. PST |
No. Played quite a few different ones at conventions but found one I liked and stuck to it. |
| Allen57 | 23 Mar 2016 7:18 p.m. PST |
No. I have around 6 sets bought over a 20 year period. Never really found one I like a lot. Gave up on Napoleonics. |
| Extra Crispy | 23 Mar 2016 7:18 p.m. PST |
@Dragon6 I like trying different rule sets. Sort of like trying different foods. And the rules I choose depend on the kind of game I want. That said my overall favorite are Grande Armee (liked 'em so much I bought the rights). Black Powder is fun and I like the 5th edition of In the Name of Glory. Then for more tactical games General de Brigade. |
 Yellow Admiral | 23 Mar 2016 10:01 p.m. PST |
Mark (Extra Crispy) listed 153 rule sets, if anyone's curious. - Ix |
| evilgong | 23 Mar 2016 11:50 p.m. PST |
Extra Crispy should post his mailing address so that we can send him all our unwanted rules, he's made a good start to cornering the world's 2nd hand market. David F Brown |
| daler240D | 24 Mar 2016 3:28 a.m. PST |
extra crispy…jeeze. you are hardcore, man. |
| Extra Crispy | 24 Mar 2016 5:44 a.m. PST |
I'm a collector, not a 2nd hand man… |
| Ed Mohrmann | 24 Mar 2016 6:03 a.m. PST |
I've only 28 sets, piker that I am…. |
| marshalGreg | 24 Mar 2016 6:12 a.m. PST |
@ Extra Crispy You still need to get NAPPY's Rules ( IIRC the title) Lol
MG |
| Old Contemptibles | 24 Mar 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
Not by choice. I just can't find one I like. |
| marshalGreg | 24 Mar 2016 8:42 a.m. PST |
Never mind- missed it in first check …Snappy Nappy it was… You are the man ECrispy! MG |
| Regards | 24 Mar 2016 8:50 a.m. PST |
Absolutely a horde of Napoleonic rule sets. Thinking about it, I horde rule sets of all periods including those I'm not even gaming. Erik |
| 1968billsfan | 24 Mar 2016 9:29 a.m. PST |
Why do you need more than one naval and one land ruleset? The one's I like are the only ones that make sense. |
| rmaker | 24 Mar 2016 10:16 a.m. PST |
While not in the league of some of you gentlemen, I do own quite a few sets. Why do you need more than one naval and one land ruleset? The one's I like are the only ones that make sense.
Because there might be something you can borrow. "So plagiarize. But always call it research!" – Tom Lehrer |
| Yellow Admiral | 24 Mar 2016 11:10 a.m. PST |
Why do you need more than one naval and one land ruleset? The one's I like are the only ones that make sense. You need at least three sets for land gaming: skirmish level, grand tactical level, and operational level. You might be able to get away with only two sets for Napoleonic naval, "tactical" and "fleet" level. Those seem to be the only real representational scale distinctions in AoS gaming. Personally I need about a 3-4 rule sets for every period, because each group of players plays with a different set, and then there's the set I prefer. - Ix |
 miniMo | 25 Mar 2016 9:56 a.m. PST |
A mere dilettante I.
Only buy a very few that I might enjoy.
6 perhaps in the library. |
| vonLoudon | 26 Mar 2016 9:24 p.m. PST |
I want Editor Bill to require all of you rules collectors to cough up, like Bill the Cat, no comparison, the perfect set of Napoleonic wargame rules within 48 hours. I deserve to have a copy. I know for a fact that you keep them hidden among your horde of wargame rules. It is my right under all the new life changing legislation that guarantees my personal wants. Oops I dropped my IPhone. I also demand a new IPhone. Oops I ran out of toner for my computer. I demand new toner as well. Thank you. You are lucky I said thank you. In fact, I take it back. |
| Trajanus | 27 Mar 2016 3:47 a.m. PST |
Does buying loads and then throwing them away in disappointment count as "collecting"? |
| Mithmee | 27 Mar 2016 7:36 a.m. PST |
Well Trajanus that almost counts. |
| MichaelCollinsHimself | 27 Mar 2016 12:58 p.m. PST |
It`s now just called Grand Manouevre. |
| MarescialloDiCampo | 29 Mar 2016 12:23 p.m. PST |
Many other period other period rule sets have gone, but for some perverse reason I have a box full of Napoleonic ones… |
| 138SquadronRAF | 29 Mar 2016 1:18 p.m. PST |
No. I've currently only four sets of rules (WRG 1685-1845, WRG Corp d'Armee, Napoleonic Command and Et Sans Resultat!). Only Napoleonic Command gets played regularly and I regard myself as a Napoleonic gamer… |
| jwebster | 29 Mar 2016 10:51 p.m. PST |
I can't afford to buy lots of sets of rules. If I could I would, but probably never play the majority. I have been forming strong opinions about what a set of Napoleonic rules should do and I am not sure that this matches anything on the market. I see that everyone gets excited when a new set of rules comes out, and then it goes quiet until the next one :) John |
