Re: "Best" historical wargame ruleset?

Posted by BobbieTheDamned on Jul 26, 2011; 7:59pm
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My favoruite WW2 games would be:

'Poor Bloody Infantry' by Peter Pig: great company level skirmish game, very simple 'lots of dice' sort of system. The rule book is a bit all over the place but once you've read it a few times and played a few games you don't really need to look up much.

'Blitzkrieg Commander 2' by Specialist Military Publishing: possibly the best set of micro-armour rules I've read, borrowing a lot of their ideas for my own set of rules that I'll be working on and possibly posting sometime.

'Naval Thunder' by Steel Dreadnought Games: A series of games to cover various periods of naval combat since the turn of the century. I have the WW2 rules and they're awesome.

If you're talking non-WW2 historical stuff:

Pike and Shotte by Warlord games: not one I've played but I've seen it being played a lot, covers all 'musket' weilding eras.

Also should mention Ambush Alley who make some really good modern combat rules.

There's a lot of other rules out there, obviously depends exactly what you're wanting to play. Flames of War is very popular at the moment, can't say I rate it as a rules set though, its almost 40K with Tigers for Leman Russes and Russians for Orks! De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA) is probably still the widest used set of rules for most ancient battles.