"Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign" Topic

As kindly announced by Bill in the "On the Internet" section, I have started to put the original documents of Tony's mythical "Hyborian Campaign" on my site rudi-geudens.be/. This is a major effort that will take a lot of time (which I am short of), so the best thing is to check the site on a regular base. However, TMP's "message boards" provide us with another useful tool. Every time I have added some pages, I will post a message here.

Rudi Geudens

Rudi,

You are to be thanked and congratulated. Your efforts in this are really appreciated. At least by me. I love looking back on the old "pioneer" works.

The new guys could learn a lot from reading what was done back when you had to make up your own rules, cast your own figures, and then paint them yourself too.

Very inspirational. I look forward to seeing more.

Bob

Thank You, Rudi! Hyboria is one of my Inspirations! I'm looking forward to seeing some of the Hyborian newsletters. I used to read the Hyboria instalments in Battle! magazine and later in Military Modelling after they merged. To accomplish a similar campaign has long been a goal of mine!

Regards,

Howard Fielding

A big Thank You!

CC

Hyboria DROVE MECRAZY. I was following it in the mag. It inspired me to do my own version. I took Greg Bears famous Hyboria map, gridded it up into HUGE detail. Initially, I had 12 Denver area players starting off with a small provence with 2k points to spend and squabbling with each other. When people talke to people, I ended up with another 20 players mostly playing by mail from Salt Lake, Los Angeles, Missouri and so on. Some 20 years ago. I have not, since then, been able to get that big a game together agains.

Rocky

Thanks for sharing the work with us Rudi. I look forward to seeing more!!

thank you very much.

the hyborian campaign inspired my group to many a campaign
game.

ah, the joy of hunting down the local helvetti with my plucky sassanid cavalry.

it was glorious...

Thanks, as well.

I also remember following the articles in Battle mag. They inspired me to try creating my own campaigns, something that I've continued to do throughout my wargaming years.

Rudi,
I only know of the Hyborian campaign from Tony Bath's book "Setting Up a Wargames Campaign". I am looking forward to your work. Thanks.

Tom

Rudi,

What a project you've set yourself! Fantastic, I followed the tail end of Hyboria in Battle before it's sad demise and then in Mil. Modelling until they stopped putting it in. I started prepping a map of Nigeria for a csmpaign, divided it into " kingdoms ", worked out an army to base each on and worked out " Royal House " family tree's. Each family member had his or her own character etc., all done with cards as per Tony Bath's " Setting Up A Wargames Campaign ", Helluva Job but rather enjoyable ( imagining the problem's it's all going to cause for the player's! ).

I've just added pages 3 & 4.

Rudi

There is a copy of Tony's "setting up a wargames campaign" on offer on Ebay now:
auction

Tony Bath's book was a great inspiration to me. If it were not for him I would not have painted all the miniatures I now have, so I could run a simular campaign myself. Any way it got me into campaigning which is a major wargaming interest of mine.

Rudi I look forward to seeing your web site.

Wait... You're still ALIVE?

Tony Bath is definitly one of the greats. He and Gygax introduced me to the hobby. It would be a fun read to see how the campain progressed over the years as I have only read bits and peices of it through Battle Magazine and "Setting up a wargames campaign book"

What ever happened to Tony Bath?

He passed away in... 2000? 2001? Can't remember. If I'd have known more about him at the time, I surely would have remembered the date...

Twelve years later…

I can't find any updates on the site, were there any more things put up somewhere else?

Not initially seeing the dates I got excited.

used to read his Hyborian campaign articles in Battle magazine when I was a kid – would be very interested in seeing more. I remember how captivated I was by this

I'll prod Rudi a bit when I see him. He's retired now but spending a lot of time in his holiday home in Hungary.

WillieB please do. With flatbed scanners it should be possible to post Tony's writings.

I have all the Military Modeling magazines where the campaign was covered. Plus the four preceding Battle magazines, but not the first six that started out the series by Tony. Really need to find those somewhere!

It's like starting a book in the middle……

Many of the stuff on Hyboria has also been reprinted in the "History of Wargaming" project by John Curry.

Went there but didn't find it,

Put "Hyboria" in the search engine, it came up with Tony's book. Am I looking in the wrong spot Phil?

Phil Dutre may have meant this compilation co produced by John Curry and the Society of Ancients: there is quite a bit of Hyboria stuff in it …

Hope that helps

Phil
Ancients on the Move

Reading this campaign back in pre history when I was a teenager was the thing that got me into the hobby, I loved it. So much so that I kept all the mags and when the computer age dawned I copied them onto the old hard drive. I could send a copy to all that would like, however my computer skills are iffy to say the least, I may need help getting them to you.

I have "Setting Up a Wargames Campaign." I have always thought that was a fantastic book.

I was part of Tony's wargame group and actually fought some of the battles from the Hyboria campaign. Good old days.

The campaign had a newsletter called "The Shadizar Herald" It would be interesting to have those available to read.

Smog Monster?

If your skills have improved I'd still like to see those fantastic reports from the magazines. Back on here after retirement and moving, hit me back if this is good for you!

OP: That doesn't seem to have amounted to anything. A pity.

I don't have the ability to send private messages at this time. If someone reading this thread could contact smog monster and ask him to respond?

This is the link to the pages on the OP's site for Hyboria
link

The Tiny Tin Men site has some helpful resource:
link

SleepyDragon, thanks for posting the link.

Amazing links Williamb and sleepydragon.
The full history! Gold mine.

I have a copy of the Society of Ancients rules publication for sale if anybody is interested.

Chris

sentry1212@dayofbattle.com

My father, Rudi Geudens, who passed away last year, started this thread in 2003 claiming he would publish Tony Bath's original Hyborian documents on his website. Unfortunately he never came round to it.
I came across the original manuscripts earlier this week when cleaning up and I thought it fit to keep my dad's promise for him.
The link below takes you to the first part: "A History of Hyboria – Vol.1" by Tony Bath. Enjoy!

link

This'll be a great resource.

Cheers,
John

Thanks, this is very interesting

Handsome Jack. I was very sorry to hear about the death of your father. My condolences. Thank you for your work to publish these documents – very much appreciated.

Phil

Sorry to read of your loss Handsome Jack. But what a wonderful tribute to your Dad.
David

As promised: the 2nd part of the A History of Hyboria manuscript can be found here:

link

Stay tuned because there's more to come.

Thank you Frederik! I look forward to reading this.

Thank you

Copyright of Tony Bath's material is now with the Society of Ancients. I published the book on his wargaming campaigns with their permission. I will publish a book on the great Hyborian Campaign and have lots of Tony Bath's unpublished material.

Handsome Jack, may I ask you to get in touch with me?

with thanks my email address is on my website link

Thats great news Historywargaming. I look forward to getting a copy.