red_bus wrote:The Old West Gunfight Rules are really interesting - not an
rpg as such, but you can see how a small step (yet a critical step) away 1970s skirmish rules were from early tabletop
rpgs. I might look around for other versions - although I really do not know much about this stuff at all.
Watch out, Steven - it's a slippery slope. I have an interest in old skirmish rules as well, and have been collecting them to go along with my D&D stuff. There is surprisingly large amounts of it out there - some good, some not so good.
When I started to collect them, I had the idea I would try to get a set of rules to cover every period and type of warfare - so that if there was ever a situation where some one said, "you know, I wish there were rules covering the xxxx conflict", I could pull a set out.
Here's a list of the booklets I have (there's a mix of skirmish and more traditional miniatures rules, and other stuff that's in the list because they didn't fit anywhere else):
Ironclad (Guidon Games, 1973)
Hardtack (Guidon Games, 1972)
Fast Play rules for WW2 (Guidon Games, 1972)
Chainmail 2nd edition (Guidon Games, 1972)
Chainmail 3rd ed. (TSR)
Airpower (TSR)
Tricolor (TSR, 1974)
Tractics boxed set (TSR, 1975)
Tractics boxed set (
woodgrain) (TSR, 1975)
Don't Give Up the Ship (TSR, 1975)
Cordite and Steel (TSR, 1977)
Field Regulations for Late 18th C. Battles (TSR)
Classic Warfare (TSR, 1975)
Modern Armor (TSR, 1975)
Panzer Warfare (TSR, 1975)
Valley Forge (TSR, 1976)
Cavaliers & Roundheads (TSR, 1973)
Boot Hill 1st print (TSR, 1975)
Warriors of Mars (TSR, 1974)
Combat Commander 1973-1983 (Enola Games)
War Cry (Judges Guild)
WRG Rules 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. (WRG, 1975)
WRG Rules 6th ed. 3000 B.C. to 1485 A.D. (WRG, 1975)
WRG 1685--1845 (WRG, 1979)
WRG 5th ed. rules plus army lists (WRG, 1976/1977)
Armour & Infantry 1925-1950 (WRG, 1973)
Armour & Infantry 1950-1975 (WRG, 1977)
DBR Army List book 1 (WRG Phil Barker, 1995)
Bladestorm
Angriff! (Lakeshore Press, 1972)
Circa 1863
At The Sharp End
Fast Play Rules for Pike & Shot 1550--1720 (Newbury)
Warfare in the Ancient World 2nd edition (Newbury)
Napoleonic Warfare (Newbury, 1981)
A Thousand Years of Medieval Warfare (Newbury, 1979)
Sebastopol, Sadowa and Sedan (Newbury, 1981)
Zulu Storm
Hell and Fateful Decisions 1919-1999 (Jim Webster)
Pony Wars
Osheres Helm
World War One
Tactical Commander
WWII Book of Armaments
Sword and Shield (TTG)
Sword and Pistol (TTG)
Reaper (TTG, 1981)
Attack of the Fungoid Trolls (TTG, 1981)
Combat 3000 (TTG, 1979)
Combat 3001 (TTG, 1981)
Trench (TTG, 1976)
Tercio 5th ed.
Hordes of the Things
DBM 300BC-1500AD (1993)
Here There Be Dragons (DBM)
God's Acre (Dave Millward, 1976)
Heroes (Dave Millward)
Wizards & Warfare (Heritage, 1978)
Condottieri (Heritage, 1976)
Barsoomian Battle Manual (Heritage, 1978)
Broadsword (FGU)
Legion (FGU)
Gladiators (FGU, 1975)
Fire, Hack and Run (FGU, 1979)
Heart of Oak (FGU)
Archworld (FGU, 1977)
Down Styphon! (FGU, 1977)
Rapier & Dagger (FGU, 1978)
Frederick the Great (FGU, 1977)
Blue Light Manual (FGU)
Space Marines (FGU)
Bireme & Galley (FGU)
Emerald Tablet (Creative Wargames Workshop, 1977)
Middle Earth Wargames Rules (SELWG, 1976)
Perilous Encounters (Chaosium, 1978)
Vive L'Empereur (Chaosium, 1981)
Engage and Destroy (Chaosium, 1980)
General Quarters (Brookhurst Hobbies, 1975)
Ship o' the Line (Battleline Publications, 1976)
Sea Power III (ALNAVCO, 1971)
The Quest of Thane Tostig (Navwar, 1977)
Tusk (Matthew Hartley)
Iron and Steam (Jeffery S. Koppe and Robert E. Day, 1991)
Minuteman (Ken Ray and Scott Bowden, 1974)
Stars n Bars (Scott Bowden -- Empire Games 1979)
Operation Greif (Don Lowry, 1970)
Grandy Army (Panzerfaust Publications, 1975)
Western Gunfight Wargames Rules 2nd ed.
World War 1 Air Combat Rules
Samurai Wargaming Rules
From Oars to Cannon (19th Century Miniatures)
Knighthood and the Middle Ages (TSL, 1987)
En Avant Napoleonic rules
Greek Naval Warfare (LWS, 1972)
Wargamer's Handbook (R. Zimmerman, 1973)
Starguard (McEwan Miniatures, 1975)
Orilla (McEwan Miniatures, 1975)
Star War 2250 (McEwan Miniatures, 1975)
Knights of the Round Table (Little Soldier Games)
Axe and Arrow (Little Soldier Games)
Imperial Guard II (Little Soldier Games)
Book of Sorcery (Little Soldier Games)
Book of Monsters (Little Soldier Games)
Book of Demons (Little Soldier Games)
Book of Shamans (Little Soldier Games)
Zulu (Little Soldier Games)
Fighter Pilot (Little Soldier Games)
Fighter Pilot Expansion (Little Soldier Games)
Der Fuhrer (Little Soldier Games)
Ringbearer (Little Soldier Games)
Sword and Spear (Milgamex, 1975)
Pellic Quest PBM (Conflict Interaction Associates, 1978)
Rules for Medieval Skirmishing (Leicester, 1970s)
The Colonial Rules (Leicester)
Painting Miniatures Floquil
Tanks Alot (Tacky-Tac Games)
Wild West Wargaming rules
Rudis
Wars of the Roses (Skytrex, 1975)
Napoleonique (Wargamer's Library Vol IV)
Tank Charts set #1 (Brian Stokes)
Redcoat
Wargamer's Guide to the English Civil War (Z&M, 1977)
Aerial WW1 Dogfight rules (Paragon)
Hinchliffe Guide to Wargaming (Hinchliffe, 1977)
And there are lots more out there....
Two favourites are The Quest of Thane Tostig, where you get to play Vikings with more than a touch of
RPG, and Tusk, skirmish rules for prehistoric cavemen.
Regards
Mike
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