Which rules did you start wargaming with?

[Jim Ando]

200 years ,horse and musket rules from table top games.

those were the days sigh.

[NTM]

I bought a lot of TTG rules but did not play many apart from Tactical Commander.
Another set I had was Combined Arms, what sort of person came up with mechanics of that game? 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Another set I had was Combined Arms, what sort of person came up with mechanics of that game? 

ME 

IanS

[wargamesbob]

First rules used were home brewed Romans vs Ancient Brits written by my late brother who introduced me to the hobby in the late sixties. First commercial rules were Featherstone's horse and musket from the book "Wargames".

Desert island rules - probably The Perfect Captain's "Spanish Fury/Pistolero" with the "very civile action" ECW amendment and the "Tinker Fox" campaign system

[Sandinista]

For me, started at school in late 70's, bang upto date with latest fun set though  althogh BKC is a cracking set of fun too.

• WRG 5th edition ancients
• Hail Caesar, great fun

[Blaker]

Wow some oldies but goodies rules being brought up many I havent heard for a long time 

My first miniatures wargaming rules were WRG 3rd Edition.

Desert Island wargaming? hmmm I guess was WW2 Tactika (spelling suspect)

Somewhere out in the barn is my copy of Volume 1 Issue 3 White Dwarf it had adverts for other fantasy rules, fantasy minis, and historical rules and minis not to mention boardgame reviews and RPG reviews. A very very long way from what WD is now 

[lentulus]

Charge!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Charge!

At what pray sir - where are the enemy......

IanS

[Fenton]

Battle with Model soldiers by Donald Featherstone, I think thats what it was called, it had a AAR between AIrfix Union and Confederates in it...One D6 per 3 rifles firing or something like that...the WW2 rules in it were quite good as well...First rules set I bought was WW1 naval by Skytrex and there WW1 rules I think they were Skytrex at least

[Serotonin]

First wargame- WH40k Rogue Trader
Desert Island- Hmm either BKC2 or Hail Caesar.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

First wargame.  Uncertain but probably Airfix WW2 guide (with 1/72 figures) or Infantry Action 1925-1975 (with 1/32 figures).

Desert Island - tricky one, probably I Ain't Been Shot Mum but I'll wait until 3rd edition comes out in a month or so to be sure :-)

Regards

Edward

[Dazza]

stones knocking down airfix figures wins

[sixsideddice]

Introduction to Wargaming by Arthur Taylor. I think it was in about 1970, got the rules in a small corner shop in Ipswich (all I could afford at the time, and I only had 5 minutes to spend in my first ever wargames shop... Dad was in a hurry). I`d been playing for a few years before that, using my own childish rules in my head... but I didn`t know there was such a thing as Wargaming until that week. Same week I saw Waterloo being re-fought on a children`s TV show called: Crackerjack). I was in awe.

My first ever Wargame was the year Waterloo came out in the cinemas... I re-fought Waterloo over and over again with my plastic Airfix figures.

Six 

[Luddite]

stones knocking down airfix figures wins

Little Wars!

[Hertsblue]

No, no, Little Wars used matchstick-firing cannon.