"Colonial Top 5 Rulesets?" Topic

Which Colonial-era rulesets would be among the Top Five that gamers play? (Not including naval rules.)

The Sword and the Flame are right up there as well the Men Who Would be Kings

You can use Black Powder but I think it is more suited to European or North American type battles

TSATF and Battles For Empire 2.

The Sword and the Flame

TSATF and Colonial Adventures (based on the ability that it is designed for solo play) are my go to sets.

The ones that I play are "The Sword and the Flame" primarily and just getting into "The Men Who Would be Kings."

Jim

TSATF
TSATF (800 Fighting Englishmen)
Battles for Empires
John Company
Never Be Taken Alive

Soldiers Companion (Space:1889)

Sharp Practice has given us some enjoyable African jungle and Maori War games and now has a Sudan variant I am looking forward to trying out.

The Men Who Would Be Kings

The Sword and the Flame

The Sword and the Flame

We use A Gentleman's War.

The Men who would be Kings and Field of Battle for large games.

Thanks

John

1 thru 5 all TSATF.

Ditto on the sword and the flame. One game that has less popularity but is really excellent for small scale colonial games = Congo: Adventures in the Heart of Africa. TSATF Uses 20 men units, Congo uses 3 to 6 men units. Each player has 4 to 5 units. In multiple player games 3 to 4 units. While intended for Africa 1880-90, I have used these rules for games in Vineland with Vikings, skull island, pirates in Africa, 1690, Romans in Britain, and fighting in German east Africa during the great war. I am working on a scenario based on the book "Panzers in the mist: The German invasion of equatorial Africa;" there have been articles in wargames illustrated by Nick Buxley using the rules for games in the Amazon and India. Also, reports on the Facebook page for the game of prehistoric animal hunts, Jumanji, Tintin in Africa, fighting mummies in Egypt and a number of others. I recommend folks interested in skirmish colonial games at a low level to try it.

TSATF, Patrols in the Sudan, Colonial Adventures, a variant of Blood and Swssh, TSATF (again), and "really wish I could play it" Science vs Pluck.

TSATF, TMWWBK and Death in the Dark Continent.

Congo, Death in the Dark Continent
Never found TSATF very good (although I played the original Yaquinto version with the strange casualty tables, not the newer one where you roll a dice per figure)

Battles for Empires

Battles for Empire or my own home grown set depending on my mood

The Sword and the Flame

The Sword and The Flame.

Well, we gamed extensively with All the Kings Men. It was the land rules that went with my friend Bob Duncans Gunboat Diplomacy game. You can find both sets of rules for free at the HMGS-MidSouth FB page in the files section. link

TSATF, TMWWBK, Colonial Adventures.

Science vs. Pluck is a good game.

Battles for Empire looks like a good game, but I have never played it.

Locally we mostly play "Patrols in the Sudan".
Not a skirmish game.

link
You can see the detail of it here.

martin

The Sword and the Flame. Re-discovering it this past year. Built up forces for the Sudan and now Abyssinia.

TSATF, TMWWBK and Death in the Dark Continent.

TSATF
Space 1889
Patrols in the Sudan
Gaslight
Soldiers of the Queen

TSATF
800 Fighting Englishmen (TSATF Battalion variant)

God Bless You, Larry Brom!

'Nuff Said.

TVAG

The "Sword and the Flame" and all its variants.

TMWWBKs all the way. I've always felt the sword and the Flames seems to be a favourite with our American cousins across the sea but I've never even seen it here in the UK.

TSATF x 5

Death in the Dark Continent.

TSATF
TMWWBK
BFE2
Muskets and Tomahawks
Rebels and Patriots