"Revisiting WRG 6th Edition" Topic

An old buddy of mine challenged me to a fight using these venerable rules. Not one to back down from a fight I took him up on his offer. Some real Old-School fun was had! link

A good read, the old WRG was my favourite set of rules until the advent of 7th made me hide in a corner.

Your description of the troop types and picking your army reminded me of a Sumerian army I scratch built back then; hordes of D, MI, LTS, front rank shielded, archers and a couple of units of decent troops. Like your Chinese it maneuvered like a house brick but could absorb enormous punishment.

Reading your AAR has made me dig out those old rules for another look.

cheers
Jon.

Our group still plays them. I have played other more recent rules and have enjoyed the games, but have not had an experience that makes me want to invest and teach the others how to pay. It looked like a good time was had. Thanks for sharing.

Well said about the 7th Edition KorsunO. Sounds like a great stroll down memory lane for the game. Many happy, and some unhappy ones, were passed by those rules.

You may have just struck a chord for me, also. I never expected to play Ancients again or, indeed, any game except small skirmish stuff. But the sight of your old school board was enough to get me thinking. Maybe my Achaemenid Persians, Carthaginian's, 3rd Century Romans and Vikings may see the light of day again.

The joys of armies separated by hundreds, even thousands, of years going toe-to-toe seems to have disappeared from wargaming. I'm enthused although for me, it's 5th Edition.

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I used 6th edition a lot & then a little 7th back in the 80s. I had a very large Late Imperial Roman army……max numbers of everything that the list allowed.
after a 30 year wargaming hiatus, I've very recently got into DBA & have re-based all of my 15mm LIRs for DBA & now have about 60 elts.
TBH, I think I enjoy DBA more than 6th edition- simpler, faster & not too much micromanagement. Also, fast to build other armies….so now also have Gauls, Huns (mercenaries re-based from my LIR army) & am quickly building a Persian army…. all done in 2 months

Great AAR Anton. I always thought your cavalry was armed with bows? Rob krause destroyed army with bow fire from Byzantine army.

sgt Dutch, the Byzantine cavalry are 1/2 bow and 1/2 lance making them less than spectacular at shooting OR charging, plus the close order infantry can pack in loads more shooters on any given frontage. The extra armor doesn't help against crossbow armed opponents either. This will be the last time I let The Housemartin pick which army I am running

Oh, you got conned again by the Housemartin. I remember his super French that could move from end of the table to other in a turn. This is the problem with WRG. You can game the army, not play that the real army that would of fought the real battle….lol

I've yet to hear of a rule set that you can't 'game' if you put your mind to it. It's all about the attitude you bring to the table.

Cheers,
John

Nice! You just need glossy green unflocked hills and you will be 90% Old School! Just match the bases to the same color, coat liberally with gloss, do not flock anything, and you will get 100%.

I believe I sold all my WRG rules at a 'con a few years go – guy bought the entire set and all the army list books.

My WRG 5th – 6th Ed terrain was matt green, and my figures were flocked, initially with sand.

Cheers,
John

Nice to hear that you had a good time with good company. I began the hobby with ancients and 6th edition and was ready to quit by the time 7th was released and that sealed it. Sold my collections and switched periods and rules and never looked back.
I'm back in ancients again after a very long time. It's taken awhile to recover!

Often I find that the company is more important that the rules are

Anton – I'll give an "AMEN" to that!!

WRG 6th edition was my favourite rule set, maybe I shall dig out my old copy and have a simpler game again

I must be one of the few who started with WRG 7th edition, but have a couple of copies of 6th edition and keep meaning to give it a try but when it comes to having an easy to play Ancient game tend to play Amarti , Tactica and other more recent games.

Great post, a friend and I had a 6th edition battle last christmas and had alot of fun. The rules were a bit quirky but they were the ones we both started gaming with. It got us thinking where have all the old 6th edition 15mm armies gone, Mikes Models, Minifigs strip 15mms. I sold all my armies many years agoim and to this day wish I had kept my favourite Selucid and Ghanazavids. Them were the days. Green cloth, a couple of tress and some flat hills was all we needed.

Jefthro3 wrote: "I must be one of the few who started with WRG 7th edition"

I remember having a lot of fun playing 5th (my intro to real wargaming) and 6ed. 7th was the edition that broke the system. Too many new ideas bolted onto an old system in a way that massively unbalanced the game. It's no surprise that the much more innovative DBA came next.

Cheers,
John