The Nazfiger Collection is designed for the wargamer, this collection is an extensive collection of military history and orders of battle.
These comprehensive lists have been available to purchase directly from George Nafziger. George has now donated all the lists to the U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Research Library. It is online and free to the world.
These were the next set of rules based on Bernard Garaty fast play moderns. They are designed for the wonderful Oddzial Osmy figures available from Fighting 15s in the UK and Picoarnor in the US.
The ranges had to be altered for 3mm and the size of a base now represents a company not a single vehicle. I got rid of the spotting rules as this was another dice roll that slowed the game down and altered to the To Hit rules.
Like the France 1940 rules I used different armour and gun types to reflect better the vehicle capabilities. A few extra modifiers were added to represent the problems the Arabs had in fighting the Israelis.
The last variant for these rules are for the 1973 Yom Kippur war in which the sides were more balanced.
The first variant I found for the Fast Play Modern rules were these. I attended a Wargames show several years ago and a couple of gents were putting on a France 1940 game in 1/200. It was a cracking little game and i managed to blag the rules off the lads.
This was pre-computer so the rules were typed via a typewriter. I still have the rules though they are a little worn now. The main changes to the rules were they left out aircraft and AA fire and the infantry rules were completely changed. I believe they are taken from another game, but I can’t recall where from.
The last change was different move classes and armour classes for vehicles. These changes gave a good flavour to the period and moved the rules on from the original.
Many years ago a set of fast play rules by Bernard Garaty appeared in one of the glossy Wargames magazines. These rules were very inspirational to me as they were simple for the period but gave a decent fast play game, which did not happen with many of the Commercial modern rules.
Since reading these rules I have erred on the side of simple rules and shied away from over complicated ones for al my periods.
Since finding them these rules have been used for a number of different periods and scenarios. I have seen versions at shows in participation games and variants in other magazines. I have also used them as a basis for WW2 and other specific conflicts.
The original rules are available below
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Andy Watkins has a NATO variant here N.A.T.O.
I will present some of the other versions I have over the next few entries. I hope you enjoy these rules as much as I have over the years.
I had an email recently asking where they could the old Alienstar rules. The website is now long defunct. I had a look through some old discs and found I had a copy of all the rules.
The rules cover Ancient, Fantasy, World War 1, World War 2, Modern, Horse and Musket, RPG and naval.
Over the next few days I will be uploading all the rules to the main site.
15th January
Update: All the rules have now been added.
There have been a number of web gaming magazines over the past few years. Wargames Journal was an excellent web magazine and then went commercial into print form. Unfortunately this was the death of the excellent mag.
Fictional Reality was another excellent magazine that lasted for over 38 issues. It was recently announced that it was stopping.
A new magazine was launched in the summer of 2009 called Irregular Magazine. Issue 3 has just been released, take a look. I wish them every success with the future of this magazine.
The Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers (SOTCW) have started a new blog for the games they put on around the Country. It is the SOTCW Events.
This follows on from their previous event blogs that I was also involved with: Andrevian Tales our 2008 game and Achse Avalanche our 2009 game.
The game we have organised for Gauntlet 2010 is the Rif Wars.