one hour wargames by neil thomas; different cover question

[petercooman]

Ok chaps, little question.

I was looking at one hour wargames again, and noticed that depending on where you look, it has a different front cover.

The most common one is this:




But sometimes you find this:





Is there a difference? Like second edition or other print runs or something? Or are they the same book with another cover? 

[d_Guy]

I don't know if this helps. I have the Kindle version (which has the first cover) and Amazon show the second cover as the printed version.
Based on the "look inside" both appear to have the same publishing data.

[petercooman]

Ok thanks.

I have searching a bit, and i read somewhere that when it was first advertized, the cover was different from the retail version, maybe that is why?

[Leman]

I have a print version with the, frankly, rather dull WWII cover (as everyone knows I just can't game anything post-1925). I find the second cover much more appealing to the wargamer. The top cover looks like a child's game of toy soldiers for the average eight year old. What were the publishers thinking?

[petercooman]

Maybe the second cover had to much stuff in it, and didn't show "for those with limited time and space' enough...

Mind you, i find the second cover very nice!

[Norm]

I like the first cover - but then I do like the KV-1 :-) , but more to the point,it does look like a unique shot, while the second shot just looks like any one of 500 shots that have ever graced the front of a mag or some-such.

[Ithoriel]

I like the first cover - but then I do like the KV-1 :-) , but more to the point,it does look like a unique shot, while the second shot just looks like any one of 500 shots that have ever graced the front of a mag or some-such.

I'm with you on this Norm.

[petercooman]

Well, i like the second one better, but that's only because i'm interested in the book for horse and musket games 


BKC is still my go-to ruleset for WW2.

[Leman]

The whole point to fighting WWII looks as though it's about to be unravelled by the xenophobia of the average dingbat known as the British public - see Marseilles.

[FierceKitty]

The whole point to fighting WWII looks as though it's about to be unravelled by the xenophobia of the average dingbat known as the British public - see Marseilles.

Explaining to simple-minded foreigner this thing, pliss?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Think he's chatin bout Vote Leave, and ginin us Bouncin Boris as PM. Even Cameroon is betterer dan dat.

IanS

[fred.]

Well, i like the second one better, but that's only because i'm interested in the book for horse and musket games 


BKC is still my go-to ruleset for WW2.

My copy has the tank rider picture - but I think the horse and musket picture is more representative of the rules

[petercooman]

Yes, from what i have read, the system looks odd to use for ww2.

Could be mistaken though, don't have them yet, but there are a lot of AAR's for the rules with horse and musket era forces, and almost none with ww2 (and1) forces, so they might be unpopular for that period.

[Leman]

The rules cover the whole spectrum of historical warfare and are unit based. The tank picture, clearly showing a skirmish-style game, has nothing to do with the book's contents. If a close up was required, then a painting, a la Osprey, would have been a better bet.

[petercooman]

Still can't decide to go for the One hour wargames book, the napoleonic book or the 19th century book