Proto-CM in Domesday Book

[DungeonDevil]

Originally published in rough form in Domesday Book issue #5 (in July 1970), the first two stand-alone editions were published by Guidon Games. Soon thereafter, Gygax and Kaye formed Tactical Studies Rules, and future printings of Chainmail fell under that auspice.

SOURCE: www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/chainmail.html

Is there an in-depth discussion here (or elsewhere) of this very early "rough form" of CM? Just curious what it looked like.

[derv]

There has been some minor discussion here and there about the early rules, but nothing really in depth. It's an interesting document that you can find in whole at Playing at the World. Really good post on the subject.

There is also the rules in their earliest form that Jeff Perren created and Gary expanded for the Domesday Book. Gary offers to send them to anyone who included 50 cents for postage and handling. I've never seen nor heard what those "less complicated" rules looked like, but Gary said they were 4 pages long.