I have all ways fancied gaming the War of the Roses ,loads of blokes walking round in plate armour thumping each other with hammers in all kinds of weather ,changing sides at the drop of a helmet ,kings and queens changing places quicker than premier league football managers ,all great fun but never dipped my toes ,until the freebie rules Never Mind the Billhooks .They came free with Wargames Illustrated who have taken them on board with a vengence ,all sorts of articles are appearing and the support on the WI website is fantastic.The rules booklet is about 30 pages which includes afew pages of cards and tokens ( you can buy upmarket versions of these) The rules seem pretty staright forward with things being determined by a small deck of cards ,you need a small army to start with about 100 or so figures and when you take into account the Perry plastic box sets this is a pretty cheap army .I ahve ordered some of the said Perry box sets and the proper tokens and cards ,this will be my project for next year .
I missed this august furores so popped onto WI website the other day. No rules for sale or that magazine as a back number. so I assume it was literally a freebie with no rerun? Not sure why they would then set up and sell what look like decent cards and tokens.......
ReplyDeleteit has sold out now ,but you can get it has afree download if you are a member and I believe aprint copy is being finished for sale
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info I think I might wait for the republished version. I have Andy callan articles on command and control from the 1980’s. He was ahead of his time in those days so it will be interesting to see his latest thoughts
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