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Offline Mick_in_Switzerland

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2021, 12:38:16 PM »
1) Lion Rampant, 2) The Men Who Would Be Kings.

I am not sure on the third because I have not played enough.

Offline Pijlie

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2021, 12:52:24 PM »
1. En Garde
2. Rogue Stars
3. A Fistful of Kung Fu
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Offline M.P.

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2021, 01:46:57 PM »
1. En Garde
2. Zone Alfa
3. IHMN
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Offline Warren Abox

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2021, 07:13:41 PM »
1. En Garde!  For those melee skirmish games.  It can be easily tweaked to allow for fantasy battles, too, which would allow me to continue using half my collection of figs.
2. Black Ops  Because it allows for modern and with a bit of tweaking sci-fi skirmish games.
3. Despite already saving item 2, if it happened today I'd grab Rogue Stars because I paid for the darn thing and haven't played a game of it yet! 

That leaves only Gaslands on my shelf to suffer the flames.  Sorry, friend.  You're just too complicated for serious solo play.  Via con dios.

Offline Froggy the Great

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2021, 07:15:58 PM »
Dragon Rampant, Fighting Sail, and Rouge Stars.
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Offline Mr. White

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2021, 07:29:52 PM »
It's interesting to see Rogue Stars appear so much. I was under the impression it wasn't well received.

It's also looking like Ronin/En Garde is taken the most to cover skirmish games and Lion/Dragon Rampant for army?

Offline TWD

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2021, 07:36:47 PM »
OGAM
TMWWBK
Dux Bellorum

Not necessarily in that order

Offline fred

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2021, 08:22:22 PM »
Gaslands (which I haven’t seen much mention of yet)
IHMN
TMWWBK

Offline Matty

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2021, 12:57:37 AM »
Men Who Would be Kings
Rebels & Patriots
Dragon Rampant

I think Daniel Mersey's style of game must resonate with me.

Offline SotF

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2021, 02:37:29 AM »
I don't own that many of their physical books.

Ronin, Of God's And Mortals, and Rogue Stars are the three I have as books. There's a lot more on my tablet...

Offline Mick_in_Switzerland

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2021, 06:49:56 AM »
It would be interesting to make a Poll of this.

Offline Duncan McDane

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2021, 09:51:46 AM »
As they are all still available and cheap as chips I wouldn't take any of them with me in case of a fire  ;).
Having said that, I only got a couple of them and never played one so it would be Rogue Stars, In her Majesties name and Ronin, just because I like the settings and the many possibilities miniatures wise.

Edit: If hardcovers do count aswell then I'd take Dracula's America and Ragnarok with me, together with Rogue Stars.
« Last Edit: February 03, 2021, 09:54:40 AM by Duncan McDane »
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Offline SteveBurt

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2021, 12:08:28 PM »
En Garde, Fighting Sail, Honours of War.

I've played Lion Rampant and TMWWBK quite a bit but I'm not a big fan. Own and played Seven Seas and it is not a good set. I own Dux Bellorum, Pikemen's Lament and Rebels & Patriots but not played them.

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2021, 11:24:35 PM »
Rebels and Patriots
Lion Rampant
Honours of War

Not played the first two yet but really want to soon.

Played HoW a fair bit and they are a great set for SYW and possibly AWI with some adaptations.

Offline N.C.S.E

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Re: Your Top 3 Osprey Blue Books
« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2021, 07:02:36 AM »
In Her Majesty's Name, Heroes, Villains and Fiends and Sleeping Dragon, Rising Sun.

Gotta keep the set after all.  ;)

 

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