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Of Periods, Rules & Possibly Wanking Over Napoleon

 Andy Copestake has, as usual written an interesting piece over at his own blog, which got me thinking about rules, periods and the like...    I have in my almost half century, gone through the usual cycle of rules, often trying to find that perfect set - it doesn't exist - for my favourite period.     When it came to pike and shot, I stuck with Gush, until I got to the stage where my armies were too large for the mechanics to be comfortably used, and we were cutting down on tests for this and that, and in the end - sometime in the 90s I began writing and using my own rules, which, as of 2026 have become a no figure removal, basing agnostic set with straightforward mechanics which - I think - capture feel and flavour,    They don't use fancy cards or special dice, because guess what? I am not seeking to make a living from them and screw over gullible ex- Games Workshop acolytes and they don't need them.   Now, whilst I will stand second to no...