I’m looking for a copy of these, more out of nostalgia than anything else. They were the first set of rules I played when I started wargaming.
If anyone has a set they’re not using and willing to let go for a reasonable price, let me know
WRG rules 1685 - 1845
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I'll let you have mine at ayton gratis . I've never used them !
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Cheers Simon! I’m slowly collecting all the rules of my youth for nostalgia purposes.
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np - i'll retrieve it from the loft this weekend
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Thanks, I owe you a beer or two in return!
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If anyone else is looking for a copy of these, I have one going spare, too. Bought them because I thought they'd be on a par with the Gush/Renaissance set, but they weren't.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Yeah, maybe it’s the rose tinted spectacles of memory, but I seem to remember having cracking games using them and my 1/72nd Airfix and Esci Brits, most of which were converted. They probably don’t hold up well to current sets, but I find as I get older, I derive great enjoyment from paging through the rules of my youth on a quiet evening, whilst the missus is watching whatever tripe is currently the fad on telly, and reminiscing about the good old days
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In my yoof I used the earlier WRG 'Flinch Point' horse and musket rules. Marvellous, but so dated now.
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Jeremy - I don't know that there's anything wrong with them; I've met lots of people who swear by them - and even a few who still use them. I think I was always a "Charge!" or "Sharp Practice" kind of guy at heart and this set just didn't give me the "look" of game I was....well, looking for - a big skirmish with a handful of large units per side.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
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