Regular rulesets

Started by paulr, 21 October 2017, 08:11:17 PM

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How many rule sets do you regularly play:

1
1 (2.4%)
2
4 (9.5%)
3-4
11 (26.2%)
5-6
11 (26.2%)
7-8
6 (14.3%)
9-10
5 (11.9%)
11-12
0 (0%)
13 or more
4 (9.5%)

Total Members Voted: 41

Voting closed: 04 November 2017, 07:11:17 PM

vonlacy

Here is my regular rules list:

Covoy

Bag the Hun
Bag the Mig
Wings of War

Charlie Don't Surf
Blitzkrieg Commander
Red Actions
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Die Fighting
Mr Lincoln's War
Battles for Empire
Regimental Fire and Fury
General de Brigade
British Grenadier
Age of Reason
Sharpe Practice
Slugfest
A Coat of Steel
WarmasterAncients
Hail Caesar!

I wonder if I will ever settle on a period?

Hopefully never!

Leman

See what I mean:

Convoy - don't do naval
Bag the Hun
Bag the Mig  }don't do air wargames
Wings of War

Charlie Don't Surf - don't do Vietnam
Blitzkrieg commander - don't do WWII

Red Actions
It's a long Way... }never heard of so assume modern war
Die Fighting

Mr Lincoln's War - played once
Battles for Empire - never heard of
Regimental F&F - too slow so no longer play
General de Brigade - never played as too slow
British Grenadier - don't do AWI
Age of Reason - Honours of War is much better
Sharpe Practice - bought it, considered it, figures still in box and most likely to be sold off.
Slugfest - ? is it to do with invertebrates?
A Coat of Steel - not heard of that one
Warmaster Ancients - played once, not my cup of tea - TtS and BI2 have replaced it
Hail Caesar - on the bookshelf, never played

As can be clearly seen, in wargaming one man's meat etc. which seems to render this whole questionnaire somewhat redundant unless of course the point is to show that there appear to be as many rulesets as wargamers.
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paulr

My reason for putting up the poll was to get a view of the number of rule sets people play, it has been very helpful in that regard :)

Our group plays a variety of periods and regularly use 9 different rule sets. We are considering adding a tenth, Baroque, and have been discussing the challenges of remaining familiar with that many rule sets

The poll results suggest that we are at the upper end of the curve, except for some outliers
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Raider4

Quote from: vonlacy on 24 October 2017, 09:15:37 PM
Here is my regular rules list:

Covoy

Bag the Hun
Bag the Mig
Wings of War

Charlie Don't Surf
Blitzkrieg Commander
Red Actions
It's a Long Way to Tipperary
Die Fighting
Mr Lincoln's War
Battles for Empire
Regimental Fire and Fury
General de Brigade
British Grenadier
Age of Reason
Sharpe Practice
Slugfest
A Coat of Steel
WarmasterAncients
Hail Caesar!

You play all of those regularly? Colour me impressed!

Cheers, M.
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paulr

Perhaps some are like his bath, once a year whether he needs it or not ;) ;D

We certainly struggle to get all our 9 current rule sets played in a year :!!
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vonlacy

Yes we do play all of them, some are one week games others can be 2 or even 3 week games. We game every week and we have large collections , so we like them to get regular outings, it's no good just having them sitting in a box. There are a couple more rule sets we use occasionally say once every couple of years.

paulr

You're very fortunate to get to game every week :)

We've estimated that we might get 40 gaming evenings a year, if we are lucky
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vonlacy

As we are a group of 7, if I am unable to put a game luckily on someone else will, so we usually get around 48-50 games in a year.

kustenjaeger

Our 'group' is very occasional - some have a lot of regular gaming (RPG, board and tabletop) but I rarely get the opportunity to join in. So I guess the 'regular' wargame rules are I Ain't Been Shot Mum (20mm - occasionally 6mm or 15mm), Blitzkrieg Commander (10mm), Frostgrave, Star Wars Armada, X-Wing.