ACW rules

[slinky]

Any recommendations for an easy, fun set of rules to start playing ACW?

Not looking for huge games ala fire & fury

[nikharwood]

I use the ACWarmaster variant - nice & simple, fast & furious...

[slinky]

cool, is that a separate book to the warmaster series?

[nikharwood]

Even better - it's a free download - hosted on the warmaster-historical Yahoo group...or if you don't want to join the group, PM me here & I'll zap it to you 

[slinky]

So do I just need to get the warmaster historical rules and then sort out the free extras?

[slinky]

Have joined the historical warmaster group and printed off the acw rules, just need to get a copy of the ancient rules and Im away. May look at salute for a copy.........

Thanks for the heads up nick

[nikharwood]

You're welcome - if you want to have a bash at these without forking out for WMA you can always use the WM original fantasy rules - it'll give you a flavour of the command & combat core mechanics - you can download them from here: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat1290025&categoryId=1100014&section=&aId=5300011

[slinky]

Your'e a star! Better get reading.......

[Captain Verbeek]

Fire and Fury is awesome and very easy.

[DaveH]

Fire and Fury is awesome and very easy.

And there are a lot of sensibly sized scenarios at http://www.fireandfury.co.uk/ - the ones in the rulebook are pretty huge.

[Luddite]

If you don't want THE ACW rules (F&F), i'd recommend looking at Black Powder.

http://www.warlordgames.co.uk/?page_id=3177

I was initially skeptical, but they are really rather growing on me...

[DaveH]

The Too Fat Lardies have They Couldn't Hit an Elephant which are pretty good.

[ciaphas]

We use johnny Reb, we have played anything from 1 brigade upto 1 corp.

and are quite straight forward (must be I can play)

jon

[GordonY]

Thoroughly enjoying Peter Pig's Civil War Battles, they're supposed to be 15mm but figure scale is never that important. If you base them as suggested you can play a Corps sized game with 3-400 figs on the table in a couple of hours. More Beer and Pretzels than hard core rivet counting type rules.

Gordon

[Nosher]

BP has its fan base - a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it. I'm in the latter category.

I cant beleive that they are too lazy to produce army lists. What you end up with is rules lawyers creating uber-armies because "there is nothing in the rules that says you cant do it."

If you do find a decent set of ACW rules I'd love to know too. Still searching for the holy grail