What is The Gauntlet?
The Gauntlet is quite simply my journal for wargamers. No frills, nothing
flash, just 60-ish pages of hands-on wargaming. I don't try to appeal to
everyone, but I do try to ensure that everyone gets inspiration and value
from it's pages. Gauntlet has been described by its readers as the
Wargamers' Newsletter of the '90's; the British answer to MWAN. An eclectic,
often irreverant window on our hobby, which refuses to take itself too
seriously.
In addition to the wargame ideas, reviews, scenarios and the rest, the first
nine issues have generated over 30 sets of rules - encompassing everything
from simple tabletop mechanisms to historical grand battle systems, including:
- Western Gunfight
- 2mm Ancients
- D-Day Beach Landing
- Individual Duelling & Sword Fighting
- Boudiccan Revolt Campaign
- Gulf War Platoon Level
- Medieval Big Battle
- World War One Trench Raid
- 'Braveheart' Campaign
- American Civil War Naval
- Franco-Prussian
- Vietnam Street Fighting
- Gulf War Armour
- Indian Mutiny
- Napoleonic In-Shore Naval
- ECW / Montrose Big Battle
- Zulu Skirmish
- 1930`s Gangster
- Sci-Fi Street Fighting
- Solo Enemy Disposition & Orders Determination
- French-Indian Wars Woodland Fighting
- Dad's Army
- US / Indian War Small Encounters
With many, many more rules and ideas to come in the next four issues!
Issue No.10 included:
- Gunboats on the Danube
- The second episode in Mathew Sparkes' rip-roaring,
whisker toting World War One role-play.
- Storm the Barricades
- Quirky mob rioting rule system.
- This Sunne Of York
- Cheap and dirty Wars of the Roses Rules
- RASH : Roll A Six To Hit
- Surprisingly simple and even more surprisingly
effective late C20th skirmish rules.
- The Bakonga Incident
- Fictional mini-campaign set in a strife-torn African
state. Get out those Peter Pig Modern Africans and have a blast!
- Heroes for Helen
- Individual heroic skirmish rules in the age of Hector and
Achilles.
- POINT MAN
- Modern ambush and tracking rules for guerrilla and special forces
actions.
- THE SKIRL OF THE PIPES
- British vs Vichy French encounter on Madagascar 1942
for Rapid Fire.
- KINGS OF CHAOS
- Solo / multi-player command and control rules.
- On Sacred Ground
- It's dirks at the ready, in this knife fight between the
claimants for the Scottish throne - Robert The Bruce and John (The Red)
Comyn.
PLUS! AMBUSH AD350, Reviews, letters, gossip, hints, tips...
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