The Portable Wargame
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The Portable Wargame has been developed over the past ten years to meet the needs of wargamers who want a fast¸ easy to learn¸ simple to use set of wargames rules that don't require the player to purchase and paint a large collection of figures and that can be staged on a small dinner table¸ a large coffee table¸ or something even smaller. The rules are designed to be used with a gridded tabletop made up of squares or hexes.
This book contains chapters entitled:
Introduction A brief (and incomplete) history of gridded wargames Some basic rules Grids: Hexes and Squares Definitions Units ... and how to represent them on the tabletop Design Notes Going Solo and the Sudden Death Option Portable Wargame Rules: Late Nineteenth Century (Including Colonial) The Portable Wargame in Action: The hunt for the Mahdi Portable Wargame Rules: Early and Mid-Twentieth Century The Portable Wargame in Action: Soviet Combine Arms Assault Appendix: Some thoughts on wargame design Bibliography