My wife said.... Should I let her? advice please.

[petercooman]

Well i have seen enough out of these to know i will like them! But i have time to save up the money for these, as i have enough rulesets i already have to try out for a while now!

Although the books are on sale from warlord games at the moment, black powder is 10£ off!!
Decisions decisions....

[Luddite]

Yeah Warmaster is free from GW on their site, there's a comprehensive Living rulebook around as well, with all the extra army lists in.

Not any more it ain't.  They've pulled the free specialist game rules off the website.  WM is not on sale for an astonishing £35.  You can get the PDFs of the rules updates and army lists though.

THB, Warmaster always was a bit of a ropey ruleset.  Lots of fiddly combat res. and some frankly broken 'endless orders + endless fighting' rules that meant with some decent rolls you could put some shock cavalry into the enemy on turn one and watch it chew through your opponent's units before he gets his first turn.

However its better than their core rules!  Its just a shame they went mental on the pricing...

Preistley had a go at fixing the issues with Black Powder etc., but its still a Marmite set of rules for me.

[petercooman]

Well it all depends on how you look at a game. Do you ant tactics or sensation? When simulating real combat, no general worth his salt will just rush one of his best units forward to chew through one 4th of the enemy army to be isolated afterwards.

It did happen though, and mostly ended in a massacre. Still, its an option, but you are not obliged to use it.

[barbarian]

Some French made a New version of Warmaster Fantasy, using Warmaster Ancients rules, then adding magic.
Basically the same game, but with only 2 rounds of combats (which allows not to be rolled over by cav) and other "details".