Author Topic: Warhammer Historical WW1? (Read 7683 times)

W.B.Kurgan · « **on:** October 10, 2007, 10:05:58 AM »

Has anyone else heard about this? Apparently the chaps at Warhammer Historical are working on a Great War book!

Quote from: "BarmyBob"

You shouldn't have sold your WWI lead Kurgan, theres a WWI supplement for WAB coming out soon according the the Black Library guys I talked with in Chicago....... to include armour and aeroplanes.

Helen · « **Reply #1 on:** October 10, 2007, 10:32:25 AM »

Quote from: "W.B.Kurgan"

Has anyone else heard about this? Apparently the chaps at Warhammer Historical are working on a Great War book!

Quote from: "BarmyBob"
You shouldn't have sold your WWI lead Kurgan, theres a WWI supplement for WAB coming out soon according the the Black Library guys I talked with in Chicago....... to include armour and aeroplanes.

Hi Kurgan

Checkout the last reply on this TMP topic from Rob Broom:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=121218

Lowtardog · « **Reply #2 on:** October 10, 2007, 02:10:40 PM »

From the info I have scoured I think it will have more in common with 40K but that could be a cunning ruse by Harry Hun to put me off the scent

Phil Robinson · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2007, 06:25:14 PM »

Qoute from the Wargaming World War One Yahoo Group

At the UK Games Day last weekend they were demonstrating the rules
and had a superb late war game put on by Dave Andrews. The rules are
called The Great War and are likely to be out April 2008. It is very
loosely based on 40K.

Phil

TJSKI · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2007, 06:49:24 PM »

Yes it is comming & I think the working title is Over the Top. I have seen the working rules & it is pretty much Warhammer 40k just with WW1 figures.

I had high hopes for this, but after looking at the rules, it seems pretty much 40k to me. Of course I have not played it, but first read thru dosn't give me much of WW1. But I have not seen what has happened with it so they could have fixed some of the 40kish things in it by now.

TJSKI

Lowtardog · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2007, 08:55:33 PM »

Phil Yates produced a good few years ago a WW2 version based on 40k cant find it now. It wasn`t too bad.

I would think WW1 should be OK as Boltaction rifles, Machine guns and smgs are about it with a few bit of artillery and the odd lance should work fine.

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #6 on:** October 10, 2007, 09:37:58 PM »

I´ve done a WW1 WH40k adaptation, based on the "Panzer Battles Approach". It includes a "generic" army list which, along with some "National Traits", historic information and common sense should allow to make any force from 1914-1918.

Anyone interested can drop me a pm with their e-mail address and I´ll be happy to send it over.

Or you wait for "Triumph and Tragedy" to be released at Crisis, which is far better.

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redzed · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2007, 12:27:04 AM »

Quote from: "Lowtardog"

Phil Yates produced a good few years ago a WW2 version based on 40k cant find it now. It wasn`t too bad.

It's here
LINK

Plynkes · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2007, 12:38:44 AM »

Ha! Ha! You're a funny guy, Redzed.

P_Clapham · « **Reply #9 on:** October 11, 2007, 05:40:37 AM »

Hmm... Too bad they didn't go with the simpler LoTR system. I never liked all of those D6 rolls one has to make in Warhammer 40k.

Lowtardog · « **Reply #10 on:** October 11, 2007, 08:32:10 AM »

Quote from: "redzed"

Quote from: "Lowtardog"
Phil Yates produced a good few years ago a WW2 version based on 40k cant find it now. It wasn`t too bad.

It's here
LINK

Thats Epic isn`t it with Werhmacht Titans

pixelgeek · « **Reply #11 on:** October 11, 2007, 03:19:17 PM »

Quote from: "Plynkes"

Ha! Ha! You're a funny guy, Redzed.

Phil got the job to do FoW based on his work on the 15mm scale WWII 40K variant.

Some local gamers here actually built armies for the game and were playing it for a few months before Phil disappeared to work on FoW.

Howard Whitehouse · « **Reply #12 on:** October 11, 2007, 10:43:34 PM »

I know I'm old and jaded and have been wargaming since we had to bang nails into planks and paint them blue or red, but this seems to me a case of the clumsiest, most bloated and unimaginative rules system being used for the clumsiest, most bloated and unimaginative war.

So, perhaps it'll work just great --- :roll: :roll: :roll:

Lowtardog · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2007, 10:56:45 PM »

Quote from: "Howard Whitehouse"

I know I'm old and jaded and have been wargaming since we had to bang nails into planks and paint them blue or red, but this seems to me a case of the clumsiest, most bloated and unimaginative rules system being used for the clumsiest, most bloated and unimaginative war.

So, perhaps it'll work just great --- :roll: :roll: :roll:

I agree in a way Howard. I love the figures and reading about the Great war can be moving when considering the privations that soldiers endured yet continued to fight on when we lessser men of today would down tools and walk away. But in the same breath the horror that was the trenches put me off, I was building forces for Germans and French, played a few games with my mate and we both felt a little uncomfortble. Dont get me wrong it is an interesting period but not for me either.

I still love looking at the eye candy on this site however :mrgreen:

GregX999 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 12, 2007, 12:07:04 AM »

When complaining about WH40K in the past, I've always said "It plays like WWI trench warfare... a general advance with no tactics, no supression, just run like hell straight towards the enemy while blazing away at whatever you can see."

Yeah, I think it would be a good ruleset for that war...

Greg

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