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Following on from the Battle of Britain rules David Child-Dennis has now sent me the latest set of Airwar rules. These cover the Korean conflict.

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Here finally are the D10 rules for the 1973 Yom Kippur war. The reason for the delay that halfway through writing them I was thinking of other rules to use for this period. Anyway here they are completed.

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I will be porting some scenarios across from a few of my favourite boardgames for this period soon.

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.

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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.