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If you need help with the QRS, EB can knock you up a light 10-pager from your 2-page rules, no bother.
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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:17 am Whatever happened to those "back of a postcard" rulesets that were hailed in one of the mainstream wargames mags some years back?
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Even the mainstream rules that are considered reasonably complex these days would be considered very simple by comparison with 70s and 80s sets. General d Armee is a lot simpler than Empire.
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The all-time "mind-blender" ruleset has to be "Chef de Bataillon" in which you commanded a full battalion at 1:1. From memory, it even had a table to resolve a sapper/sapeur taking an axe to a door.
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'Newbury Fast Play' ... shudder...
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DougM wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:48 pm 'Newbury Fast Play' ... shudder...
To be fair, by Newbury's standards it was fast...
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Straight into the bin after the first reading?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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I read it. Then put it aside and played the Bruce McQuarrie set IIRC
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We should have a loose ass day sometime where we try to play Newbury fast play
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goat major wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:17 pm We should have a loose ass week sometime where we try to play Newbury fast play
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