Originally shared by Andy C
Fun fact about Chainmail.. as described in Jon Peterson's excellent book "Playing at the World", Jeff Perren's original draft of medieval skirmish rules - which would become the LGTSA medievals rules coauthored with Gary Gygax, which in turn would be published by Guidon Games as the first edition of Chainmail - were inspired by Tony Bath's medieval miniatures rules, most likely the 1966 version.
For those not familiar with that origin story, there's a good discussion of it (and of the development of Tony Bath's medievals rules) here: http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/11838/tony-baths-1966-rules
http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/11838/tony-baths-1966-rules
Per Jon Peterson's comment in that ODD74 thread, I believe this is the cover for one version of the 1966 Tony Bath Medieval Rules. Crazy this hasn't been reprinted in some format!
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Tony Bath's Ancient Wargaming, though, has been republished in an accessible paperback edition, and it is a treasure chest of insight into the complex wargames that eventually turned into roleplaying.
ReplyDeleteGabor Lux Yes, certainly. I've been meaning to pick up that book for a while. But the Ancients rules in there are a later iteration, IIRC
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