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Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:00 am
by World2dave
If you need help with the QRS, EB can knock you up a light 10-pager from your 2-page rules, no bother.
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:39 am
by valleyboy
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?
Lost by the Royal Mail
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 12:01 pm
by DougM
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.
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:12 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
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.
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:48 pm
by DougM
'Newbury Fast Play' ... shudder...
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:46 am
by Etranger
DougM wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:48 pm
'Newbury Fast Play' ... shudder...
To be fair, by Newbury's standards it was fast...
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:32 pm
by BaronVonWreckedoften
Straight into the bin after the first reading?
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:20 pm
by DougM
I read it. Then put it aside and played the Bruce McQuarrie set IIRC
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:17 pm
by goat major
We should have a loose ass day sometime where we try to play Newbury fast play
Re: It just got bigger
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:23 pm
by garyp
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
FTFY