optional field | 17 Dec 2018 9:28 a.m. PST |
What are your favorite rules, for any era, any setting? By that I I just mean a simple "all things being equal, I'd rather play X than anything else." |
Texas Jack | 17 Dec 2018 9:47 a.m. PST |
Without a doubt Bag the Hun. |
BillyNM | 17 Dec 2018 10:00 a.m. PST |
Pony Wars! Best fun ever. |
kallman | 17 Dec 2018 10:02 a.m. PST |
Well the answer is, "It depends." Right now I would say my favorite is The Men Who Would be Kings. It checks off all the boxes for large skirmish Colonial Era and even Pulp that I would like to game. |
boggler | 17 Dec 2018 10:13 a.m. PST |
AK47 the original version |
Winston Smith | 17 Dec 2018 10:31 a.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink | 17 Dec 2018 10:34 a.m. PST |
Oh, drat. Depends on time, opponent and just flat what I'm in a mood for. Let me throw out several to make sure they get included in the poll: Ancient/Medieval/Fantasy: DB series, especially DBA and HOTT for small castings and Mersey series, especially Lion Rampant and Dragon Rampant for larger ones. Horse & Musket--Wessencraft Corps Level for small castings and Charge for Dummies or Charge! for larger ones Age of Rifles: On to Richmond. Maybe Stonewall Brigade. Colonial: TSATF. Modern/SF Ogre for smaller castings. Yes, I know: nothing I'm really happy with for modern/SF skirmish or even really WWII stand=platoon. But I haven't given up yet. |
Richard Brooks | 17 Dec 2018 11:12 a.m. PST |
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SBminisguy | 17 Dec 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
WW2: NUTS (Skirmish), PanzerKorps (Divisional) Ancients/Dark Ages: Dux Britanniarum |
miniMo | 17 Dec 2018 11:27 a.m. PST |
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DisasterWargamer | 17 Dec 2018 11:37 a.m. PST |
Depends on if I am hosting or playing – but generally any of these 4 Sword and the Flame Fire and Fury Died for Glory Cavaliers and Roundheads |
Big Red | 17 Dec 2018 11:42 a.m. PST |
Neil Thomas Saga To the Strongest |
Virtualscratchbuilder | 17 Dec 2018 11:57 a.m. PST |
PigWars Wesencraft Rules Full Thrust Battleground (by Regiment games, not Easy Eight) Firefight (Alternative Armies) HomeGrown pulp rules for pulp Sci Fi |
arsbelli | 17 Dec 2018 12:02 p.m. PST |
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Parzival | 17 Dec 2018 12:58 p.m. PST |
Fantasy/Ancients/Medieval Grand Tactical: Warmaster WWI Air: Wings of War/Glory Spaceships (Fleet combat): GOBS! Spacefighters: X-Wing, 1st ed. RPG: D&D (BECMI) SF armor: Ogre Really don't have any other "rather play X" rules for tabletop genres, though I do have some "rather not play Y" rules I can think of! |
KSmyth | 17 Dec 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
Anything Daniel Mersey, pretty big fan of Fire and Fury. |
Calico Bill | 17 Dec 2018 2:17 p.m. PST |
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slugbalancer | 17 Dec 2018 2:18 p.m. PST |
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mad monkey 1 | 17 Dec 2018 2:44 p.m. PST |
Tercio: Liber militum, and the expansion Kingdoms. By Fire and Sword. Blucher. Warmaster. Savage Worlds. Have to say I'm having fun with Age of Sigmar and A Song of Ice and Fire mini game. |
Oppiedog | 17 Dec 2018 2:46 p.m. PST |
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lloydthegamer | 17 Dec 2018 3:12 p.m. PST |
Bloody Barons, Ga Pa, Maurice, Sail and Steam, Chain of Command, What a Tanker, To the Strongest, Dirtside II, Gruntz, Full Thrust. These are a few of my favorite rules. |
Dn Jackson | 17 Dec 2018 4:02 p.m. PST |
ACW – Johnny Reb – really has the feel of the period Colonial – Sword and the Flame – just FUN Fantasy, Old West – Home brew |
rmaker | 17 Dec 2018 4:34 p.m. PST |
The Sword and the Flame (and variants) Yellow Ribbon (still the only Indian Wars rules where Indians act like Indians). |
BrockLanders | 17 Dec 2018 4:51 p.m. PST |
Love Fire and Fury brigade rules for ACW |
Lascaris | 17 Dec 2018 5:00 p.m. PST |
Bloody Big Battles!, Et Sans Resultat, General Quarters 3 Pretty much 90% of what I game these days is one of those 3. |
Mooseworks8 | 17 Dec 2018 6:49 p.m. PST |
Home Mod of Pz8 Division Level Second World War Rules One Hour Wargames Frostgrave |
FusilierDan | 17 Dec 2018 8:30 p.m. PST |
For 19th and 18th Century massed battles the soon to be released A Gentleman's War. |
El Nato | 17 Dec 2018 8:56 p.m. PST |
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mghFond | 17 Dec 2018 9:59 p.m. PST |
Depends on the era really. But Bloody Big Battles, Pikeman's Lament, and To the Strongest get the most play from me. |
23rdFusilier | 18 Dec 2018 12:48 a.m. PST |
For 19th century rifles type games its "Charge of the Light Brigade." For 18th century muskets its Fife and Drum miniature rules. Easy to learn, fun fast game and very adaptable. |
ZULUPAUL | 18 Dec 2018 4:06 a.m. PST |
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Axebreaker | 18 Dec 2018 4:12 a.m. PST |
Chain of Command, Maurice, Sharps Practice, Black Powder, Impetus and SAGA. Christopher |
etotheipi | 18 Dec 2018 7:48 a.m. PST |
QILS, but I designed it to be that way, so … yeah. Space 1889 and THATF inherently lead to fun games for me. MechWarrior (and all the clixy games, really) has some nice non-linearity built in at basically no cost to the player, which makes for a lot of fun, too. |
tomrommel1 | 18 Dec 2018 8:47 a.m. PST |
Dragon Rampant and all rules based on these |
wrgmr1 | 18 Dec 2018 10:09 a.m. PST |
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skedaddle | 18 Dec 2018 10:54 a.m. PST |
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Chuckaroobob | 18 Dec 2018 1:11 p.m. PST |
Disposable Heroes, TSATF. |
Bismarck | 18 Dec 2018 1:40 p.m. PST |
TSATF and variants, Disposable Heroes. same as Chuckaroobob, but different order of preference! :-) |
14th NJ Vol | 18 Dec 2018 1:50 p.m. PST |
Napoleonics – SHAKO 2 ACW – Regimental Fire & Fury WW2 Platoon level – Fist Full of Tows 3 WW2 skirmish – Bolt Action Modern Warfare Platoon level – FFT3 WW2 Naval – GHQ Micronaughts Age of Sail – Heart of Oak |
abelp01 | 18 Dec 2018 2:15 p.m. PST |
Sword and the Flame Bolt Action |
StoneMtnMinis | 18 Dec 2018 3:38 p.m. PST |
ACW – JR II, On to Richmond ACW Naval – Age of Iron Colonial – TSATF Wild West – Desperado, Desperado II WWII Skirmish – Wally Simon's(can't remember the name) WWII Armor – Tank Charts? (last played in the 80's so not sure of the name) AWI – The British Are Coming, Loose Files But, as many have said, it is the players and not the rules the majority of the time that make for a good game. Dave |
Cavcmdr | 19 Dec 2018 5:01 a.m. PST |
King of the Battlefield 18th century rules - Played regularly since 2002. Others include AdlG AK47 Dragon Rampant Soppy Fokkers WH40k 9thEd v grandson |
Aethelflaeda was framed | 19 Dec 2018 9:26 a.m. PST |
Bluecher Bloody broadsides Blue max SOBH BBDBA /AdlG 2HW Bolt Action tweaked |
vagamer63 | 20 Dec 2018 6:34 a.m. PST |
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Fitzovich | 23 Dec 2018 6:39 p.m. PST |
The Sword & The Flame Limeys & Slimeys Fast Play ACW |