T. Sheil and A. Shiel offer a scanned copy of a 30-year-old rules set called 1000 BC to 1000 AD. They explain:
The set of wargame rules copied here is a mystery. I had bought the small booklet of Rules almost 30 years ago, for a price of $4.00. The cover is mustard yellow 65-pound cardstock. leather embossed, with brown print. The booklet itself has no copyright notice, information, nor any reference whatsoever to a publisher, author, printer or issuing agency. As you can see, the typesetting work was respectable. I have therefore felt it acceptable to reprint them here.
These rules cover both Ancient and Medieval warfare on the scale of major battles. They were intended for use with 25mm figures.. Adjustments would have to be made for figures larger than 30mm. The rules are a happy medium of realism and ease-of-play. They hie from the Golden Age of Historical Wargaming. I hope you find them useful.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
These look like an early edition of the WRG ancients rules. See also http://www.wrg.me.uk/WRG/wrg.html
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