"Yarkshire Gamers World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules" Topic

Over the next few weeks Yarkshire Gamer will be running a World Cup of Historical Miniatures Wargames Rules, everyone can get involved,

8 rules have been seeded to go straight into round 2

The voting will take place on the Yarkshire Gamer Facebook Page, I realise that it does exclude those on FB but the Preliminary Round had 2,700 votes so I need it to be manageable and one voting location does that.

Only one version of each rule set is eligible so, WRG Ancients is in as a single entry, not 1st Ed, 2nd Ed etc.

The Seeds are

1. In the Grand Manner
2. WRG Ancients
3. Fire and Fury
4. Chain of Command
5. Bruce Quarrie Napoleonics
6. Black Powder
7. Charles Grants Wargame
8.Rapid Fire

We could argue forever about what rules should be seeded and as its the first time I've done it, I picked the rules that I've seen have most influence from my perspective. I've only played 5 of them, I actively dislike 2 and only really played one, I even play alternatives with the same time period which are less popular, but you've got to start somewhere.

Preliminary Round has been completed on the 25th July with the following results

Well everyone the Preliminary Round of the Yarkshire Gamer World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules is over and we have the 16 sets of rules that will compete in Round 1 of the competition.

The 16 are

1. Battlegroup

2. Sharpe Practice

3. General de Armee

4. O Group

5. To the Strongest

6. Hail Caesar

7. Mortem et Gloriam

8. General de Brigade

9. Bolt Action

10. Lion Rampant

11. Crossfire

12. For King and Parliament

13. Saga

14. L'art de la Guerre

15. Men who would be Kings

16. By Fire and Sword

The draw for the 1st Round will be held during the recording for the Brews in the Binyard Summer Special and the ties announced to the public on Monday 31st July with the ties being played that week. The draw will place the top 8 as the home teams and 9 to 16 as the away sides.

For those who are interested the just missed out rules are (if there are 2 numbers the same the votes were tied.

17. Bill hooks
18. Blitzkrieg Commander
18 Blucher
20 AK47

Eeh, that's last time tha's playin' at our house, me lad. No Piquet, arr mam would turn in her urn!

I'll see thee in Bradford, if it doesn't freeze ovva first.

Yorkshire Best,

James

I neither faceplant nor twit. But I am still curious. Please post the results somewhere accessible.

R

Many of these seem to be mor current rule sets. Too bad some of the older rules like The Sword and the Flame, Johnny Reb and others didn't make it.

Ditto. But a great idea nonetheless.

Wot no 'CHARGE!'???
Oh well, no FB, no comment… :o(

For those not of FB or Twitter the full results are on a blog post, and I'll up date that with future results, draws etc

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It's only the voting that takes places on FB for reasons explained above, if your volunteering to count votes for me from multiple sources, let me know:-)

BillNM – Charge finished 50th out of 98 in the Preliminary Round

Grattan54 neither The Sword and the Flame got nominated, I am a big fan and still play JRII but no one voted for them.
Interested you say they are mostly modern sets as someone else accused me of being too old school with the seeds ! Lol

Hi James, hope your well mate, sadly Piquet didn't make the cut either ?

Cheers all

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

The draw has taken place for Round 1, I'll post them up later but if if fancy listening live, it's on the latest Podcast

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To be honest half of them I have never heard of, and the great ones are missing, like DBA and DBM, Barkers 1925 to 1950 so to me there's not much to consider.

UshCha

DBM was 31st and DBA 97th, 1925 – 1950 wasn't nominated.

Round 1 

To the Strongest vs Saga 

General de Brigade vs Lion Rampant 

Mortem et Gloriam vs Bolt Action 

General de Armee vs Men Who Would be Kings 

Battlegroup vs By Fire and Sword 

Hail Caesar vs For King and Parliament 

Sharp Practice vs L'art de la Guerre 

O Group vs Crossfire.

Voting for the 1st game is now on Facebook 

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Game 2 Round 1 is now underway with General de Brigade taking on Lion Rampant, vote on the link below,

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Game 3 is now voting

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Welcome to Game 4 of the World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules.

Today's match up sees General de Armee, Dave Brown's second set in the first round take on our second set from the Osprey Blue Books Series, Men Who Would be Kings, again two very different sets of rules.

General de Armee is a set of Big Battle Napoleonic rules. A more recent set than GdeB it saw the introduction of the ADC method of Command and Control sitting above the main rules. More streamlined but with a nod to old school these rules are just about to get a second incarnation.

Men Who Would be Kings is set in the Colonial Era and is a seeks to recreate the battles of the Indian Mutiny, Africa and beyond. The rules have a Hollywood style and troops are very much at the mercy of the quality of their officers and leaders. Perfect if you fancy getting a big Sean Connery tasche and going all Peachy.

Get Voting for your favourite now and feel free to share far and wide, voting link below

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Game 1 ends today with To the Strongest still well ahead of Saga. Game 2 is a right ding dong, the lead has changed hands so many times but Lion Rampant is ahead of General de Brigade at the moment. Game 3 saw Bolt Action ahead early doors but MeG has got a shifty on and is well out in front at the moment.

Thanks for joining in.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

Game 5 sees Battegroup take on By Fire and Sword, do you prefer riding into battle on a tank or as a Winged Hussar !
Battlegroup got the highest votes in the Preliminary Round, can Fire & Sword pull a flanker !
Vote link below

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Another couple of results in with Mortem et Gloriam knocking out Bolt Action and Lion Rampant seeing off General de Brigade.

Game 6 sees Hail Caesar take on For King and Parliament

Vote link below

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That link goes to Game 3!

Correct link to Game 6, apologies

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Game 7 has kicked off with Sharp Practice against L'art de la Guerre

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And finally in the first round it's O Group vs Crossfire

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So that's Round 1 done and dusted and from the 8 games above we have the following qualifiers

Sharp Practice
O Group
Battlegroup
General de Armee
Mortem et Gloriam
Lion Rampant
To the Strongest
For King and Parliament

Keep an eye out for Round 2 in a new thread starting tomorrow.