Rules Reviews

 

Quick links to each of the posts I've done reviewing (usually by playtest/AAR) a set of rules. Will try and keep up to date!

Once I really like marked **, ones with an interesting take on things *.

Medieval

• My Medieval Base/BOD Rules Development Test **
• Never Mind the Billhooks **
• Tactica Medieval
• Bills, Bows and Bloodshed *
• Flower of Chivalry
• Kings of War
• Bloody Barons*
• Hordes & Heroes (also for Bosworth - and setup)
• Sword & Spear (played but not recorded)
• To The Strongest (played but not recorded)
• Impetus (played but not recorded)
• DBA (played but not recorded)
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ECW

• The Kingdom is Ours
• For King and Parliament
• Pike & Shotte
• Polemos

Napoleonic

• Shako (Large Battles)
• Over the Hills
• Snappy Nappy*
• Et Sans Resultat*
• Blucher (and Scharnhorst campaign*)

Mechanised (WW2 and 1985/Modern)

(note boundaries between sizes are a bit blurred!)

Brigade or Division Force

• Rommel
• WD WW2/NATO Division Commander * - amazing set for a 6x6 grid
• My FRAGO set *

Battalion Force

• O Group **
• Blitzkreig Commander/Cold War Commander *
• War On The Ground
• Contact: Wait Out

Company Force

• Cold War Company-level Mega-Playtest Summary
• Battlegroup: NORTHAG *
• Seven Days to the Rhine *
• Team Yankee
• Bolt Action - Reality Check **
• 3rd Generation Warfare
• Cold War 3
• Sandhurst Modern Infantry Battle
• Contact: Wait Out **
• Sabre Squadron

• I Ain't Been Shot Mum
• Crossfire (*)
• Panzer Grenadier Deluxe **
• FiveCore Company Command **
• Fireball Forward *

Platoon Force

• Platoon-level Mega-Playtest Summary
• Chain of Command
• Bolt Action (and house rules version**)
• Fireteam:Modern
• Ultracombat:Modern
• Force on Force
• No End in Sight*
• Iron Cross
• Monty Gunner Who
• Sabresquadron

Section Force/Skirmish

• Danger Close**
• Chain Reaction/NUTS/FNG
• Black Ops
• FiveCore
• Buck Surdu's Combat Patrol** (as ACP164)
• Paragon (v old school, 1970s vintage)
• FUBAR
• Victory Decision:Raid
• Fireteam:Modern
• Skirmish Sangin (and also here)

SF

• KR16
• Snapshot (skirmish/RPG)
• Azhanti High Lightning (skirmish/RPG)
• Albedo/ACP164** (skirmish to platoon)
• Gruntz
• Dark Side of the Moon
• Stargrunts
• Stargrave
• Five Parsecs from Home*