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As the title says, I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good WotR rules - I'm really taken with the Perry miniatures 28mm plastics (40 in a box for £16.20 from Maelstrom = WIN ) and would like to try a couple of games.

Its a bit coals to newcastle (as should be obvious from my avatar - I taste real steel often enough ) but still fancy having a go on the table.

Any ideas?

Are you thinking of mass or skirmish games?


We are using 'Hail Caeser' for our medieval (HYW and WotR). Lovely game... alot of fun.

If more skirmish based then we have been using Mordheim for early medieval/Barons War games.

I agree, large scale wise I think HC is great although the book itself only goes to the crusades, just needs a bit of tweaking. Not too familiar with skirmish medieval

Would never have thought of even looking at a publication called 'Hail Caesar' for WotR, suppose I need to start thinking outside the box more...

How does it handle missile weapons, though? Cannon, Handgonnes, Crossbows would presumably not be included and even bows are a far cry from the closest roman equivalents.

As for game scale, its whatever works out, although from experience skirmishing with polearms is a quick way to end up dead, so massed combat is more what I'd be looking for.

Cheers for suggestion

Nah its all covered... Albeit in their abstract manner. Even got WotR stuff in the book.

Dont be mislead by the name. Its not just an ancients set, but a pre-1500ad set really.

As said, its pretty abstract. A bow unit from roman times will pretty much be the same to its crusader's counterpart aside from the humans and their qualities that use it