Rules for Wargaming:
Napoleonic Warfare

Book Review

by Don Featherstone

RULES FUR WARGAMES - NAPOLEONIC WARFARE by T.J. Halsall and A.M. Roth. (Soft covers 12" x 8 3/4""; 42 pages; published by Leicester War Games and Model Soldier Society - 65P including postage).

Members of the Leicester Wargames and Model Soldier Society, the authors are practising wargamers and Trevor Halsall has notched-up numerous successes in the Wargames Championship Convention. In fact, these rules are a revised version of those used in the 1970 to 1973 National Wargames Championships and are claimed to be the culmination of four years research and three years intensive play. It is not easy to review a set of rules without playing to them but the fact that they have been used in Championship contests provides a clue to their type and style. Sets of wargames rules come in two types - those for parochiall wargaming among friends where there is little need for the written word and those, such as these we are reviewing, that have to cater for every possible eventuality that may occur in contests between wergamers who might well prize the winning above the game itself. They are "reference-rules" which means that it is necessary to constantly turn to the various paragraphs to find out what happens next. In this they would seem to be full and highly explanatory - as they must be to avoid argument! I imagine they will give an excellent and realistic game but you may need patience to use them. Their price is extremely reasonable in these hard times.

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