"Looking for Charge! For Dummies" Topic
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| fgilbert2 | 03 Feb 2025 2:33 p.m. PST |
Written by Aelred Glidden, erstwhile contributor to MWAN. I've searched through the MWAN titles available in the Wargame Vault, but with no luck. |
robert piepenbrink  | 03 Feb 2025 2:44 p.m. PST |
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? |
| fgilbert2 | 03 Feb 2025 2:55 p.m. PST |
my email is my username at gmail
Thanks!!! |
| robert piepenbrink | 03 Feb 2025 3:16 p.m. PST |
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| BillyNM | 03 Feb 2025 10:51 p.m. PST |
What is Charge! for Dummies? |
| fgilbert2 | 04 Feb 2025 3:19 a.m. PST |
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. |
| robert piepenbrink | 04 Feb 2025 11:58 a.m. PST |
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. |
| Mark J Wilson | 11 Feb 2025 8:42 a.m. PST |
If you can't understand the original Charge! rules I'm not sure you can read so writing the dummies version…………… |
| chalimac | 01 Mar 2025 7:30 a.m. PST |
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. |
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