From: Ashley Munday (Ashley.Munday@liffe.com)
Date: Thu 30 Jul 1998 - 17:34:16 EEST
Am I right in assuming that 'mini' wargaming is what we call skirmish
war gaming over here in the UK - i.e. up to about 30 combatants a side?
If it is, then apart from the magic there are some excellent sets of
rules available for this sort of scale. Glorantha doesn't need its own
set, just wander into your local stockists of gaming rules that cater
for wargamers, clamber over the crusty old farts wearing cardigans and
smoking pipes and ask for a set of skirmish wargaming rules that can
cope with ancients and the dark ages.
Two books I'd recommend on the subject are both out of print, but still
worth reading. "Skirmish Wargaming" by Donald Featherstone (published by
PSL) presents a universal set of quick and easy skirmish rules that are
still good for any period of history. He gives example scenarios from a
Viking raid through the Napoleonic Wars to street fighting in Anzio
during WWII. The other one is "Fantasy Wargaming" edited by Bruce
Galloway (PSL again), which is more inclined to the medieval period but
covers the dark ages as well.
For those interested, skirmish wargaming came in to popularity from
people who wanted to personalise wargaming, get rid of clumsy morale
rules and allow players to get into the role of the combatants. Sounds a
bit like an RPG doesn't it? You can always dust off a copy of RQII and
get much the same effect.
If it isn't and 'mini' stands for minatures, I'd recommend the Wargames
Research Group (WRG) Ancient wargaming rules. They'll cover any style of
conventional soldiers/warriors found in Glorantha although fantasy is
covered by a couple of paragraphs that basically say "Oh please, we're
serious here, you're on your own." Some people also swear by (and at)
the "Shock of Impact" Ancient rules, but I haven't seen a copy of those
for a while, so they may be defunct. The differences seem to be largely
a matter of taste.
Finally, if 'mini' wargaming is something to do with little cars, then
you're all very strange.
Ash
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