Which rules did you start wargaming with?

[fred.]

Operation warboard for WWII and Warhammer 2nd edition for Fantasty

Fave rules probably Warmaster Ancients (with fantasy rules added on)

[Luddite]

Warhammer 1st Ed.  Back when is was a rather good little semi-skirmish/semi-battle/semi-RPG set of rules.

Still got them knocking about somewhere.

First 'Proper' wargame?  Hmm, not sure.  It was an ACW set but i don't recall what it was called.  Could've been Fire & Fury, but i doubt it.

I came into wargaming from roleplaying - where i started with original D&D way back when.  To be honest that was really a skirmish wargame back then...

[Shecky]

Empire III.
Back in 1984, there was an article in a local newspaper about a game store and featured miniature gaming. I was interested so I went to the store not knowing anything about the hobby. They all played Empire III so I bought the rules and figures. For a few years, the only rules I knew about were Empire III, Challenger and WRG ancients. I thought rules had to be a mental exercise and games had to turn into arguments. I thought games had to be fought over multiple weekends and end when someone swore they would never come back.

Then Johnny Reb came out.  At first, no one else wanted to play them so i had to build armies for each side. I recruited others to play and soon left Napoleonics behind. I'm now more into rules that model conflict and friction on the table instead of initiating it off the table.

[nikharwood]

Nice thread Nosher 

1. First 'proper' & regularly played = Zulu - Tabletop Wargames [here: http://www.keepwargaming.co.uk/ttg-wargames-rules-for-the-1879-zulu-war-1228-p.asp] - I lost my original copy & was delighted to find a pristine copy on the Bring & Buy at Legionary a couple of years ago for 50p 

2. BKC / CWC / FWC - simples. 

[NTM]

Cannot remember exactly which set I actually first played. It could well have been Battle by Grant or Operation Warboard or more likely the main WWII set used at the school wargames club which was hand written on a dozen or so sheets of A4 paper. No idea what it was called but the small arms chart was the same one that later appeared in Rapid Fire. I too still have a copy of Warhammer 1st Edition. Desert Island choice would probably be Battle because as well as being a ruleset it was a cracking good read. A lot of people claim GW invented the coffee table wargames book but Featherstone, Grant etc were doing it before I was born.

[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.