WHFB Old Style

[Zingara]

Another try out of old rules. Reaper looked far too involved for my old brain, so ran a few small encounters with 1981 War Hammer, leaving out heroes and magic which I've found in the past tend to dominate proceedings.

I used Dark Elves and Dwarves.

 I can see why they increased the chance to hit by 1, I found that melees tended to bog down and last a quite a while. The morale rules meant they tested when getting below 50% and regimental morale meant they fought to very few models. They rout if lose a third in one round of melee, so the units got down to about 25% (using 12 man units). I did not have any fear inducing models which automatically rout opponents if they win. Shooting was often more effective, hitting easier, and Dark Elf repeating crossbows put down a prodigious fire and crossbows wound on anything but a 1 against normal toughness creatures. This was adjusted in later editions by increasing normal toughness (which is represented by a letter in this edition but could easily be a number and was indeed converted to that in later versions).

They are a nice basic set, and inevitably some things are not really dealt with. I had some routers jammed up against a second line which it seems they could not interpenetrate in this edition.

But when all is said and done I scratched a nostalgia itch and amused myself pushing some toy soldiers around the table.

[has.been]

It is nice to get old figures & rules out for a game.
Well done Gregor.

[Cubs]

Ah, they bring a warm glow of nostalgia to this old heart, so they do. I wasted endless hours pouring over those rules, looking at the pictures and building armies in my head from the lists. Whatever happened to Gnomes, Lesser Goblins and the magnificent Jabberwock?

Bugman's Rangers vs Mengil Manhide's Dark Elves, what a classic Regiment of Renown encounter. Love 'em.