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Fast Rules is a simple, playable ruleset for conducting table top wargames with H0 scale World War II miniatures using armor, artillery and infantry and classed as a "mid-level skirmish" wargame. [1] The rules were developed by Mike Reese and Leon Tucker and published as a 24 page pamphlet in 1970 by the Armored Operations Society , an ...
After a particularly trying session of Combined Arms — a miniatures wargame published by Games Designers Workshop — in which only four turns were completed in 8 hours, Beard decided to design a streamlined system to produce faster-moving games. The result was a set of rules for modern combat titled A Fistful of TOWs, a coil-bound paperback ...
War Games Rules 1950–2000: Wargames Rules for All Arms Land Warfare from Platoon to Battalion Level A computer-moderated adaptation of the 1988 edition was created by WargameSystems. [ 3 ] This is claimed to preserve the WRG rules structure and key data while the software automates the mechanics of playing by these rules, hence saving time ...
The basic appearance of the game is the traditional view onto a hexagonal grid, although the player may choose a map-like overhead view with military symbols and basic info for the units, or an isometric view that depicts the units with small pictures of soldiers, tanks, etc. Gameplay is turn-based.
The Wargames Research Group (WRG) is a British publisher of rules and reference material for miniature wargaming.Founded in 1969 they were the premier publisher of tabletop rules during the seventies and eighties, publishing rules for periods ranging from ancient times to modern armoured warfare, and reference books which are still considered standard works for amateur researchers and wargamers.
Corps Commander, or "Corps Commander: Operational Manoeuvre Group" is a set of micro-armour Miniature wargaming rules designed by Bruce Rea Taylor and Andy Ashton and published in the UK by Tabletop games copyrighted by B. A. Rea Taylor, A. Ashton & Tabletop Games [1] July 1986.
General Quarters is a set of naval wargaming rules written by Lonnie Gill that were first published in the 1970s. Being quick and easy to play, they have become one of the most popular series of World War I and World War II era naval rules (the rules topped a poll of popular wargame rules among members of the Naval Wargames Society). [1]
In his game, each toy soldier was used to represent an entire unit rather than an individual, and his playing field was just a chalk map drawn on the floor. In 1898, the British writer Fred T. Jane published the first rulebook for a naval wargame: Rules for the Jane Naval War Game. Jane's wargame was also the first published wargame to use ...