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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: chalimacos on 27 September 2025, 11:14:08 AM
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In my opinion, these are the best Horse & Musket rules (of those that I've read!) that appeared originally as magazine articles. I rate them mainly for the originality of the ideas presented and playability. If you have any another favorite, please tell me.
- Simplicity in practice by Neil Thomas (Generic Horse and Musket) — Battlegames #23
- Rules for the mid-eigtheenth century by Stephen Simpson (Jacobite Rebellion, French and Indian war, 7YW) — Wargames Illustrated #75, with scenarios in #134
- The rules with no name by Brian Ansell (Skirmish ACW, Old West) — Wargames Illustrated #105, with optional rules in #106, #114. Also published in MWAN #82
- Aelred Glidden's Napoleonic Rules (Napoleonic) — MWAN #87 with clarifications in MWAN #106
- Victoria Cross by Gerard W. Quinn (Colonial) — MWAN #105
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Loose files & American scramble by Andy Callan (AWI) - Wargames Illustrated #1, September 1987
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Loose files & American scramble by Andy Callan (AWI) - Wargames Illustrated #1, September 1987
Good one! Original and very influential, indeed.
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"Five minutes with EDNA" by Graham Hockley in Wargames Illustrated #38 November 1990.
Not posted as a H&M era scenario but is a generic mechanic so works for it.
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"Five minutes with EDNA" by Graham Hockley in Wargames Illustrated #38 November 1990.
I'll check them out!
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Another I also like is:
Our brutal rules by Chris Brown and the Thule Gamers (ACW) — ACW Gamer #5