*

User

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 29, 2024, 06:48:53 PM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Search

stats

Recent
« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Down

Author Topic: What set of rules has really blown your mind?  (Read 11087 times)

Offline grant

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4167
What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« on: November 20, 2013, 05:54:28 AM »
Just a thought tonight: is there a set of rules that has thoroughly blown your mind? Something so innovative and unique, you just stopped playing anything else?

Could be any period, any scale - any set of rules.

What did it and why?
Logged
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words - Orwell, 1984

Offline tnjrp

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2129
  • The dog, the dog, he's at it again
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2013, 07:29:52 AM »
Quote from: grant on November 20, 2013, 05:54:28 AM
Just a thought tonight: is there a set of rules that has thoroughly blown your mind?
No.

Nuff said 8)
Logged

Offline redzed

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1724
    • redzed
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2013, 08:06:13 AM »
IABSM, when I first 'got it'. played it lots :)
Logged
Commission Painting undertaken, PM or email me.

Offline Dr.Falkenhayn

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1540
  • guckst du?
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2013, 08:27:15 AM »
Force on Force,because of its very streamlined Gameplay,although a bit abstract it allows very dramatic Firefights  :)
Logged

Offline Geudens

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1115
  • 39th generation heir of Charles Martel (no joke!)
    • http://www.rudi-geudens.be/
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2013, 08:33:51 AM »
After 40 years of wargaming (from 1 page rules to 10 cm thick books...): SAGA!
Logged
do visit my websites & photobucket:
http://www.rudi-geudens.be/
http://www.tsoa.be/
http://s298.photobucket.com/albums/mm262/geudens_photos/

Offline maxxon

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 672
    • Small Cuts
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2013, 08:57:25 AM »
Crossfire. It's still totally unique in the purity of its vision, though some other games have borrowed elements from it.

Which is a bit strange because I never really liked any of Arty's other rulesets.
Logged
Small Cuts - a miniatures webzine - www.smallcuts.net

Offline H.M.Stanley

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2812
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2013, 09:24:11 AM »
None really although i like many: S&tF, DitDC, BP/HC ...

I have come to the conclusion that its not what you game its who you play with ... ;)
Logged
"Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!"

Offline YPU

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4274
  • In glorious 3D!
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2013, 09:26:27 AM »
Coming from warhammer mainly, Dirtside II really woke me up to better systems.
Logged
3d designer, sculptor and printer, at your service!



3d files! (here)

Offline Dr. Zombie

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 3096
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2013, 09:27:26 AM »
Quote from: H.M.Stanley on November 20, 2013, 09:24:11 AM
I have come to the conclusion that its not what you game its who you play with ... ;)

This.
Logged

Offline WillieB

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1457
  • Gotcha!
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2013, 10:20:47 AM »
Until a few years ago I felt that (even if considered an unfinished product) nothing could beat Stargrunt II.
Then IABSM came along and  took over.
However, I still was looking for a more 'modern' set of rules as well and found what I needed ( and more) with Tomorrow's War.
SAGA filled my 'ancient' niche and I still play it regularly.
But then Dux Brittaniarum was published and I forgot everything else. Yes, there are a few gaps in the rules that you have to fill in yourself, but in all it's just the best ruleset I ever played. Obviously I'm not alone in thinking so since we have been running a multiplayer campaign for a solid 53 weeks now.
And now Chain Of Command is edging in and all my SCW and WW II troops are becoming restless again...
Logged
Panic, Chaos and Disorder. My job here is done

Offline Remgain

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 611
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2013, 10:56:15 AM »
Chain of Command.

Marco
Logged


We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Offline Stavros Banjo

  • Scientist
  • Posts: 352
  • I despise normality
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2013, 11:28:07 AM »
Not wishing to appear like a miserable old moaner but it would be nice if people could refrain from using acronyms & abbreviations when discussing rules. I'm still looking for that 'mind blowing' set but it's a bit of a pain trying to work out what the heck 'IABSM' etc. is in the first place  ::)
Logged
...and what fresh new hell is this?

Offline Conquistador

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4375
  • There are hostile eye watching us from the arroyos
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2013, 12:02:07 PM »
Quote from: Stavros Banjo on November 20, 2013, 11:28:07 AM
Not wishing to appear like a miserable old moaner but it would be nice if people could refrain from using acronyms & abbreviations when discussing rules. I'm still looking for that 'mind blowing' set but it's a bit of a pain trying to work out what the heck 'IABSM' etc. is in the first place  ::)

Roger that!

Gracias,

Glenn
Logged
Viva Alta California!  Las guerras de España,  Las guerras de las Américas,  Las guerras para la Libertad!

Offline Bergil

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 765
  • Toy maker
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2013, 12:06:55 PM »
Full Thrust, version 2. space combat!

Easy system once you've played a few turns. Easy enough to use ship creation system and a very malleable ruleset for making your own settings, rules, etc.

Can't recommend it enough.  :-*
Logged

Offline Dr. Zombie

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 3096
Re: What set of rules has really blown your mind?
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2013, 12:17:58 PM »
Rules that I really enjoy are: Fast Play Grande Armee, Saga, Gloire.

And as dark horses I also really enjoy Epic Armageddon and Warmaster.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
3 Replies
2277 Views 		Last post August 27, 2009, 12:09:09 AM
by Bako
18 Replies
3818 Views 		Last post September 25, 2011, 01:28:07 AM
by Shaved Dwarf
2 Replies
1338 Views 		Last post January 12, 2012, 10:07:12 PM
by DowVooVoo
1 Replies
918 Views 		Last post July 06, 2014, 10:31:31 PM
by Furt
1 Replies
747 Views 		Last post December 21, 2022, 05:30:00 PM
by has.been