"Interest in Tabletop Rulesets?" Topic

Many of the rulesets from Tabletop Games are now out of print. Would you be interested in these rulesets if they could be made available again?

* yes, if reprinted
* yes, if in digital form (PDFs)
* only if they were free downloads
* not familiar with Tabletop Games rulesets

I'd pay a nominal amount <$10) for a title or two as pdfs. Not interested in anything printed, though.

4. not familiar.

4 as well. I might recognize the titles if listed.

4. I really don't pay attention to the publisher.

Yes, if reprinted, or made available via PDFs.

I generally prefer hard copies for rules.

e) Not interested as I have a printed copy of the TTG rules I have an interest in.

No, they are so dated. Rules have moved on and that has been tor the better.

4. not familiar, should I be?

I agree with Northern Monkey. I was never really a fan and they are VERY dated rules. I like some older rules. These just don't do it for me.

Yes, some of them.

I think he is talking about Micro Ancients, Micro Medieval, Micro Napoleonics, etc. also Shock of Impact, Lance, Tercio, Pony Wars, Trench, Challenger, etc.

No, I would not buy any of those, reprinted. I have a few of them still and have nightmares about trying to play them.

Played, and enjoyed To the Sound of The Guns, 200 Years and Tercio back in the 1980s and early 90s. Had some of my most enjoyable Napoleonic games with To The Sound of The Guns, but that was then. They were really a battalion level set and I get most enjoyment from games which allow at least a corps to be represented on the table and which have relatively simple mechanisms. I still pull out the old sets from time to time and I think there might be some interest in the Pony Wars set. We also have a regular Christmas game using a set for the Vietnam War, which I think were originally published by TableTop Games in Bob Connor's time.

We also have a regular Christmas game using a set for the Vietnam War, which I think were originally published by TableTop Games in Bob Connor's time.

Bodycount? Used to play and enjoy that.

I think there might be some interest in the Pony Wars set

Peter Berry from Baccus has mentioned the possiblity of re-publishing this set with some appropriate figures.

Most of them are visually unimpressive and mechanically anti-deluvian, so why would you bother? The only possible appeal is nostalgia, and most nostalgics would already own them.

@HenryMartini-" visually unimpressive". Yes, compared with today's all colour glossy hardbacked books, but at least you could buy and play a set of rules for a relatively modest outlay. I spent a fortune on FoG Ancients because I "needed" the additional books for different army lists. Same with battlegroup- £150.00 GBP worth of books sitting on the shelf to play half a dozen games a year. At least there us some decent reading in the BG books; even where you can get away with buying two or three books, there is an awful lot of fluff. The actual rules might take up 10 to 20 pages of a 150 page book. Personally, I would rather have the 10 to 20 pages of rules for much less cost and spend the rest on figures, uniform books etc.
As for "rule me hanics", sure there have been some interesting innovations in things like Bkavk Powder, Sword and Spear, Blucher erc. At the end if the day do we have more fun playing in 2016 than we did in 1986? Personally, I get most enjoyment from a simple rule set that allows me to use some initiative, imagination and a bit of psychology.

Micro Ancients and Napoleonics are or were available at Wargame Vault.

Micro Ancients and others from that line are available from Wargame Vault as PDFs. As for being "Antediluvian", some folks like that sort of game. Me? I prefer to go back even farther.

Ah, those were the days! Browsing shelves full of TTG rules in Esdevium Games in Aldershot.

I bought loads, but out of all the sets I had (Sound of the Guns, Laserburn, etc) the only survivors are Pony Wars and a couple of pages torn out of the Zule War set for info. Otherwise, all have gone.

I suspect many will be like me: "Wow! I remember playing these in the eighties!", flick through, put down, move on…

Yes… antediluvian; before, not against, the flood.

Anyway, each to his own.