"Looking for Charge! For Dummies" Topic

Written by Aelred Glidden, erstwhile contributor to MWAN. I've searched through the MWAN titles available in the Wargame Vault, but with no luck.

I'm sure I've got the original around here somewhere transcribed into Word, fgilbert. But once I find it, how do I send it to you?

my email is my username at gmail
Thanks!!!

You're welcome.

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What is Charge! for Dummies?

It's a very short Napoleonic Ruleset from way back in the day, written by an actual Benedictine Prior who used to be a regular contributor to the wargaming newsletter MWAN.

Billy, if you find old MWANs, check for "The Monk's Corner" which generally included one of Br Aelred's rules--almost always short, clear and using individual basing, which gives a lot of flexibility. My recollection is that "Charge! for Dummies" was actually included as a "letter to the editor" rather than as an article or the "free set of rules in every issue" which makes it particularly hard to track down.

I used to have ambitions of a binder full of one-page rules. You can make your own, of course, but you'd never hack through the forest of copyright for publication.

If you can't understand the original Charge! rules I'm not sure you can read so writing the dummies version……………

I wonder if those are the same horse and musket rules that Glidden published in MWAN #87. I remember they came with a Vimeiro Scenario and had some interesting aspects like deciding whether to risk the general after the morale roll. I would like to take a look at 'Charge! For Dummies' if someone is kind enough to send me the file. My email is my username at gmail.