OK so lets see what age spread we have on the forum :o
Two questions:
1. What was your first wargame and to what set of rules?
2. Desert Island Wargames - you get my drift, what game and why?
For me?
1. Featherstone's Battles with Model Soldiers/Solo Wargaming (both early 70's)
2. Forlorn Hope - its showing its age but for me is one of the only ECW games that feels right and is still playable after all these intervening years
Formal rules ?
In that case Battle, but rapidly re-wrote them, andstill do with most sets.
IanS
1. Jo'burg club in-house Napoleonics rules in '72. Very basic but a lot of fun.
2. Since I write most of my own rules it would not be a problem. If pushed I would probably plump for, dare I say it, DBR - quick,easy to learn, always gives a result. :-B
The rules in Wesencraft's Practical Wargames with my airfix figures. Then moved on to Terry Wise's Battlegames.
1. Battle, charles grant. also did a naploeonic set but cant remenber name. Airfix figures all over room floor stuck to lollipop sticks. ( I was about 10 )
I also got a four set of games from SPI about the bulge. spent many a day solo playing these.
I think it was WWII rules published by Airfix or Thane Tostig, but I can't remember which came first.
For the Desert Island, it would have to be BKCII.
started with warhammer fantasy battles version 3..... I'll get my coat
London Wargames - Napoleonic Rules to start (70s - Average dice + Simultaneous Movement)
Desert Island - Difficulu. Probably 'Vive L'Empereur by Ned Zuparko. Possibly the first set I used that tried to combat the '70ft' general. Still have my copy.
Chad
First set was WRG 5th Edition
Desert Island set would have to be Warmaster Ancients (and all my figures), alternatively a lot of paper and pens so I could finally write the ultimate set of rules.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 17 May 2011, 08:23:04 AM
1. Jo'burg club in-house Napoleonics rules in '72. Very basic but a lot of fun.
2. Since I write most of my own rules it would not be a problem. If pushed I would probably plump for, dare I say it, DBR - quick,easy to learn, always gives a result. :-B
Likewise, except that it was Cape Town, the only habitably city in Africa, and I'd have to insist on DBR with some of the errors corrected.
I think it would have been Battle using Airfix figures, plus a WW2 set I wrote myself in my teens. Didn;t get played mush, as I was my only opponent!
Desert Island: BKCII/FWC :)
Don Featherstone's ACW rules using Airfix and a few very pretty Hinton Hunt figures. Later supplemented with Jacklex. This would have been in the late 60s.
DP
Featherstone's rules from Wargames with Airfix ACW.
Microgames from Tabletop which had counters rather than figures, but used a tabletop with cardboard scenery you created.
My very first introduction to wargaming was a friend of my fathers - Napoleonics using (I think) a set of Featherstone's rules. That was early 70's when I was about 10.
First rules I owned and played regularly was Charles Grant's 'Battle'.
Cheers,
Kev
Warhammer 1st Edition! ;D
Operation warboard for WWII and Warhammer 2nd edition for Fantasty
Fave rules probably Warmaster Ancients (with fantasy rules added on)
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...
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.
Nice thread Nosher 8)
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 8)
2. BKC / CWC / FWC - simples. :D
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.
200 years ,horse and musket rules from table top games.
those were the days sigh.
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? ;)
Quote from: NTM on 18 May 2011, 03:00:10 PM
Another set I had was Combined Arms, what sort of person came up with mechanics of that game? ;)
ME >:( >:(
IanS
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
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
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 :D
Charge!
Quote from: lentulus on 21 August 2011, 04:41:25 PM
Charge!
At what pray sir - where are the enemy......
IanS
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
First wargame- WH40k Rogue Trader
Desert Island- Hmm either BKC2 or Hail Caesar.
Greetings
First wargame. Uncertain but probably Airfix WW2 guide (with 1/72 figures) or Infantry Action 1925-1975 (with 1/32 figures).
Desert Island - tricky one, probably I Ain't Been Shot Mum but I'll wait until 3rd edition comes out in a month or so to be sure :-)
Regards
Edward
stones knocking down airfix figures wins :)
Introduction to Wargaming by Arthur Taylor. I think it was in about 1970, got the rules in a small corner shop in Ipswich (all I could afford at the time, and I only had 5 minutes to spend in my first ever wargames shop... Dad was in a hurry). I`d been playing for a few years before that, using my own childish rules in my head... but I didn`t know there was such a thing as Wargaming until that week. Same week I saw Waterloo being re-fought on a children`s TV show called: Crackerjack). I was in awe.
My first ever Wargame was the year Waterloo came out in the cinemas... I re-fought Waterloo over and over again with my plastic Airfix figures.
Six :D
Quote from: Dazza on 22 August 2011, 10:41:34 PM
stones knocking down airfix figures wins :)
Little Wars!
No, no, Little Wars used matchstick-firing cannon. ;)