Warhammer Historical - half price sale...

[nikharwood]

...get 'em while they're hot cheap  

http://warhammer-historical.com/index.html

[jchaos79]

mmmmh tragalgar is tempting me...

[Nosher]

mmmmh tragalgar is tempting me...

I wouldn't waste your money... Being polite, Trafalgar (like most of the 'historical' stuff is a MASSIVE pile of poo

[Raider4]

I wouldn't waste your money... Being polite, Trafalgar (like most of the 'historical' stuff is a MASSIVE pile of poo

I'm tempted by Legends of the Old West. I gather it's based on the Lord of the Rings rules, which aren't a bad skirmish set.

I'd also recomment Warmaster Ancients to anyone, except it's out of stock. Wonder if they'll arrange a re-print, or just let it quietly slip away.

Cheers, Martyn
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[Maenoferren]

yep spent some pennies 
The army lists for warmaster ancients and the gladiator rules, just to add to all the others 

[Luddite]

I'm tempted by Legends of the Old West. I gather it's based on the Lord of the Rings rules, which aren't a bad skirmish set.

Indeed, Legends of the Old West is absolutely top notch stuff.  It really comes into its on if you play it as intended as a campaign.  Watching your little chaps develop from game to game is realy jolly good fun.

It's actually closer to Mordheim or Necromunda than Lord of the Rings though.

Warmaster Ancients are ok...sort of.

Units are FAR too manouverable for Ancients or Medieval warfare...recording hits is fiddly...and frankly, a single unit of well handled knights is an insanely uber-troop killer unit capable of obliterating an entire enemy army on its own...but still, sort of fun rules.  Personally i reckon the Fantasy version works much better because you don't have that nagging feeling that the friction of ancient warfare is being disregarded...

[jchaos79]

why could push to GW to make those prices? are historical warhammer going bad at sales or something?

Are GW going to kill this line now that Mr. Priestly is out of the game?

[nikharwood]

Legends of the Old West / Legends of the High Seas combine the best of LotR & Mordheim: you get the fluidity of combat that LotR brings together with a top-notch development & campaign system from MH [& Necromunda]. Highly adaptable: and Voltigeur is a Napoleonic skirmish adaptation which is free 

I'm kind-of tempted to get Trafalgar: I like the idea of naval gaming & really don't want to over-obsess on detail...for a tenner they'd seem to be a bargain: why are they so bad nosher?

And I love WMA - but you knew that already, right?  Fast, fluid and give a result in a few hours - and beautifully constructed for solo-play...the abstractions for me make it more of a strategic [not tactical] game...which I love. YMMV of course 

[nikharwood]

I'm kind-of tempted to get Trafalgar: I like the idea of naval gaming & really don't want to over-obsess on detail...for a tenner they'd seem to be a bargain: why are they so bad nosher?

Nosher mate - come back to me on this one soonish please - I need convincing, otherwise I'm going to drop cash on 'em 

[goat major]

I played Trafalgar at Hammerhead this year and it was a lot of fun. I'm told that it doesnt score well on the historical accuracy stakes - I wouldn't know but I enjoyed the game and the rules were easy to pick up. I also hear that Kiss Me Hardy by TFL is good - and you can probably get that for not a lot....

[DanJ]

frankly, a single unit of well handled knights is an insanely uber-troop killer unit capable of obliterating an entire enemy army on its own...but still, sort of fun rules.  Personally i reckon the Fantasy version works much better because you don't have that nagging feeling that the friction of ancient warfare is being disregarded...

Actually it's not, the max you can get is two rounds of combat and an advance with two more rounds if you manage to kill all your opponents in the two rounds.  The fantasy version has unlimited combat rounds and then you CAN carry on chewing through the opponents.  Also after 4 rounds of combat unless you're very lucky you'll have lost a stand or two of knights and that seriously degrades their performance, command, controll and fighting.

Also the ancients version has "proper" skirmish rules which the fantasy set completely ignores apart from some half baked units in the Empire list.

[Raider4]

...get 'em while they're hot cheap   

http://warhammer-historical.com/index.html

Too late now! I did mean to pick up the pirate book. Ah well.

Wonder if my Warmaster Ancients books are now valuable?

L@@K!! OOP!! 

Cheers, Martyn
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[jchaos79]

Now they did it. Warmaster and warhammer historical is not longer sale.

I love warmaster and as I have the rulebook is not a big problem for me. I had been resignated long ago to see no further official material for the game.

What concerned me will be lack of new players, as the game will not be selled anymore.

Mr. P.  now working in a fantasy and sci fi game for warlord games... let's see what happend...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Wouldn't worry too much WRG 6th still plays lots.....

IanS