Sunday 1 May 2022

Top 3 Rulebooks of all time (and why they made the cut)

Today's video is another inspired by my recent 'Call to Arms' for ideas and questions. The question submitted by pbeccas asked, "What are your top three favourite rule books of all time". I decided to expand this to also ask, why my top three were picked but also decided to ask a couple of my mates from Posties Rejects to give their suggestions as well. The result is an eclectic mix of rulebooks covering a wide range of periods. 


For more detail about Richard & Ray's choices check out their blog posts reviewing some of the rules mentioned in the video:

Richard's review of They Died for Glory
Richard's review of Koenig Krieg
Ray's review of Donnybrook
Ray's review of Beneath the Lily Banners



9 comments:

  1. Interesting. Richard really has a taste for some classic rulesets.

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    1. Well he had been around longer than the rest of us 🤣

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  2. Ray is king of the floppy hats. Personally my 3 are Bolt Action (love the mechanics but tank rules are dodgy), Kings of War (bonkers but love loads of dice) and Honours of War (elegant)

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    1. Excellent choices. Yes Ray has a strange affinity for floppy hat and lace cuffs.

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  3. Interesting. I published the rules "They Died for Glory" in Vol VII, #1 of The Courier back in 1989 - it was our first issue with a full color cover. At the time we felt that the progress from a mimeo memo to subscribers was amazing - but we had farther to go. It was published as a removable insert in full color. My favorite rules are CoC, CrossFire,Chassepot and Needlegun ( a set of Franco-Prussian war rules by Larry Brom of The Sword and The Flame rules, which are my 4th set of favorite rules - I won't even mention (I lied) my very first played with set of rules, Column, Line & Square published in 1958 and probably never hear of outside of the US. It required big units (60 figure Austrian Btns and 33 -36 French or British btns; the crusher was the 45 man cavalry units. But we had games with 1000's of figures on the table, I wish I could show you a photo of on of thse old games>

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    1. I'm the same, I wish I'd taken more pictures (or indedy any!) of my earlier games.

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  4. Interesting idea. And while I like Donnybrook and TMWWBK, I'll give my three faves as Sharp Practice, Cold War Commander, and Pulp Alley/7TV - yep that's really four, but I can't decide between the last two.

    Honourable mentions goto Chain of Command, a Fistful of Lead, and Dragon Rampant

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    1. Good choices. Lots of people have mentioned chain of command. I definitely agree it is an excellent set of rules, I just think the rulebook could do with an improved index to find stuff!

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  5. Yeesh I would struggle to narrow it down to 3 per period !

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