Which rules did you start wargaming with?

[Nosher]

OK so lets see what age spread we have on the forum

Two questions:

1. What was your first wargame and to what set of rules?
2. Desert Island Wargames - you get my drift, what game and why?

For me?

1. Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers/Solo Wargaming (both early 70's)
2. Forlorn Hope - its showing its age but for me is one of the only ECW games that feels right and is still playable after all these intervening years

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Formal rules ?

In that case Battle, but rapidly re-wrote them, andstill do with most sets.

IanS

[Hertsblue]

1. Jo'burg club in-house Napoleonics rules in '72. Very basic but a lot of fun.

2. Since I write most of my own rules it would not be a problem. If pushed I would probably plump for, dare I say it, DBR - quick,easy to learn, always gives a result.

[goat major]

The rules in Wesencraft's Practical Wargames with my airfix figures. Then moved on to Terry Wise's Battlegames.

[snafu]

1. Battle, charles grant. also did a naploeonic set but cant remenber name. Airfix figures all over room floor stuck to lollipop sticks. ( I was about 10 )
  I also got a four set of games from SPI about the bulge. spent many a day solo playing these.

[Steve J]

I think it was WWII rules published by Airfix or Thane Tostig, but I can't remember which came first.

For the Desert Island, it would have to be BKCII.

[Matt J]

started with warhammer fantasy battles version 3.....  I'll get my coat

[Chad]

London Wargames - Napoleonic Rules to start (70s - Average dice + Simultaneous Movement)

Desert Island - Difficulu. Probably 'Vive L'Empereur by Ned Zuparko. Possibly the first set I used that tried to combat the '70ft' general. Still have my copy.

Chad

[DanJ]

First set was WRG 5th Edition

Desert Island set would have to be Warmaster Ancients (and all my figures), alternatively a lot of paper and pens so I could finally write the ultimate set of rules.

[FierceKitty]

1. Jo'burg club in-house Napoleonics rules in '72. Very basic but a lot of fun.

2. Since I write most of my own rules it would not be a problem. If pushed I would probably plump for, dare I say it, DBR - quick,easy to learn, always gives a result.

Likewise, except that it was Cape Town, the only habitably city in Africa, and I'd have to insist on DBR with some of the errors corrected.

[Kiwidave]

I think it would have been Battle using Airfix figures, plus a WW2 set I wrote myself in my teens. Didn;t get played mush, as I was my only opponent!

Desert Island: BKCII/FWC

[Leman]

Don Featherstone's ACW rules using Airfix and a few very pretty Hinton Hunt figures. Later supplemented with Jacklex. This would have been in the late 60s.
DP

[DaveH]

Featherstone's rules from Wargames with Airfix ACW.

Microgames from Tabletop which had counters rather than figures, but used a tabletop with cardboard scenery you created.

[Squirrel]

My very first introduction to wargaming was a friend of my fathers - Napoleonics using (I think) a set of Featherstone's rules. That was early 70's when I was about 10.

First rules I owned and played regularly was Charles Grant's 'Battle'.

Cheers,

Kev

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Warhammer 1st Edition!