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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5543152" data-attributes="member: 775">I just played the 1970s Chainmail skirmish rules just a couple weekends ago (they're in the middle of rulebook, right before the fantasy stuff). And they've stood the test of time, IMO. I've also played the 1e Battlesystem. It had its charm, but it seems to take a long time to play, and the casualty system seemed wonky (its been awhile). I own the 2e versions, the rules seem cleaned up from 1e. 3.0 Chainmail was fun. I still own and use the miniatures from that line. I wish WotC continued it, but I understand why they didn't. I only had two major complaints with the system: the Gnolls seemed too powerful for their points, and any character above 5th level could trounce everything else. But it was good game for low-level skirmishes, nice and simple. Easy to convert to the main 3.0 rules. I played 3.5e DDM, but everytime I played I thought: Why am I spending time playing this? I might as well just play D&D. I loved the stat-cards--still use them for my current 3.5e campaign. I do wish that WotC would have put out a mass combat wargame--at least something to give Games Workshop a run for its money. I have a nice 3,000 point Empire Army I've collected over the years, and a smaller Chaos Army, but I don't want to think about what I spent to collect them. I figure some competition for GW would drive prices down. I like the minis, but only buy them when my FLGS has them on sale. And I do like the 8th Edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I've also played various historical wargames: Flames of Glory, Warfare in the Age of Reason, DBA, HoTTs, Ancient and Medieval Wargaming by Neil Thomas, Ogre (okay historical), and more I can't think of off the top of my head. Currently I'm almost done with my Hundred Years War French Army for Neil Thomas's rules. But some of those games I haven't played in years. So many games, so little time... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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