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Title: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: Leon on 20 July 2010, 02:23:49 AM
I've been considering painting up a coupld of small Fantasy armies for my 6 year old, and attempting a game with him.  Now taking into account that he's a bit young (and likes to cheat) and that I haven't gamed in about 15 years ( :o), are there any really simple rules out there I could try?
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: Blaker on 20 July 2010, 05:03:27 AM
If you can find a copy of Hordes of the Things 2.0, they are about as simple as you get with a small army footprint  :D

cya
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: Leon on 20 July 2010, 04:19:04 PM
Are they reaaaalllly simple?!  As in move, fight, dead, move, fight, dead!
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: nikharwood on 20 July 2010, 07:56:20 PM
Quote from: Leon on 20 July 2010, 04:19:04 PM
Are they reaaaalllly simple?!  As in move, fight, dead, move, fight, dead!

That pretty much describes me playing any ruleset...nothing to do with complexity  ;) :P ;D
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: Blaker on 20 July 2010, 09:50:00 PM
Welllll, more like, move, shoot, fight, dead, move, shoot, fight, dead. however there might be some variations on the move part as in - not moving very many element!!!  My tendency to roll those Ones for command leave my battlegroup hanging in the wind more often than not  :P

cya
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: count_zero99uk on 20 July 2010, 10:10:06 PM
Hoardes of the Things are very simple, you roll a dice and thats howmany order pips you get, some units take more pips to order, so you could bring some nice basic math into it.

Also there are no stats, just types, and they are limited anyway.

Id recomend them :)
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: Leon on 21 July 2010, 01:39:45 AM
Is there much difference between the new and old editions?  I think we've got a copy of the original one somewhere.
Title: Re: Rules even a 6 year old could understand?
Post by: count_zero99uk on 21 July 2010, 09:16:44 AM
I think 2nd ed clarifys some ambiguitys, and had some nicer examples.  It also has a lot more army lists.