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Wider Wargaming => Rules => Topic started by: Trencher on 30 March 2011, 08:24:20 AM

Title: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Trencher on 30 March 2011, 08:24:20 AM
I am looking for a easy-to-earn WWI skirmish ruleset which would cover the early stages (1914), where I can use armoured cars, cavalry and infantry on a 1:1 base. What ruleset would you recommend?  :-\
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: goat major on 30 March 2011, 08:27:45 AM
Through the Mud and the Blood is excellent

http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5 (http://toofatlardies.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=5)
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Trencher on 30 March 2011, 08:36:58 AM
Oooh - this sounds good! By the look it seems that it is intended rather for 28mm. But I assume that it is suitable for 10mm as well?
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 March 2011, 09:00:01 AM
Scale it down?
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Steve J on 30 March 2011, 10:11:22 AM
I've heard a lot of good things about the ruleset, but have never played it I'm afraid. But at £7.00 for a pdf and free copy of the AVBCW rules, they might be worth a look.
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: zaapark on 30 March 2011, 09:33:01 PM
Warhammer The Great War is fun or Price of Glory by Iron Ivan games.  Or Force on Force by Ambush Alley but you have to make your own stats for vehicles.

Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 31 March 2011, 08:17:22 AM
Check "frewargamesrules.co.uk", there several suitable sets there, free.

IanS
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: nikharwood on 31 March 2011, 08:56:47 AM
Contemptible Little Armies by Chris Peers is a great ruleset  :)
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: DaveH on 03 April 2011, 03:55:59 PM
Quote from: Trencher on 30 March 2011, 08:36:58 AM
Oooh - this sounds good! By the look it seems that it is intended rather for 28mm. But I assume that it is suitable for 10mm as well?

I believe that M&B is heavily used by people with 15mm figures and I think the only thing I'd do with 10mm is maybe base figures in multiples and use a mini die to show casualties till the stand was removed. Personally I aim to use it in 10mm myself for SCW as well as WWI.
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: Last Hussar on 12 April 2011, 07:17:38 PM
We play "I aint been shot mum" with 10mm like that - 1 stand = 1/2 a section.  I will do something similar for TFL 'Charlie don't surf' - put 2-3 figs on a 30mm base, and remove bases as the kills mount up.
Title: Re: WWI skirmish - which ruleset would you recommend?
Post by: goat major on 19 April 2011, 07:21:54 AM
LardyRich (the author of Through the Mud and the Blood) has just posted on the WD3 forum where he states that all the ranges in the rules are scaled to 10mm figures - so yes I guess that means they are very compatible.

http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=335639 (http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=335639)