Anybody playing Chainmail as a straight wargame?

[vladtolenkov]

I'm still considering using Chainmail as a possible combat system for a D&D campaign I've been thinking about, but I'm increasingly enamored of Chainmail on its own merits, and I've recently been curious to try a game of it without using it as an add-on to OD&D. This is at least partly due to the fact that my current group is pretty commited to 4E, but sometimes we play one-shots of other games when we can't get together as a full group.

Just curious if anybody out there is playing Chainmail as a straight wargame? Please share your stories!

[philotomy]

I dabbled with Chainmail as a wargame a couple of years ago, but never got much beyond the "messing around" stage. I think playing it as its own game gets the most out of it. (I'd probably even exclude the fantasy supplement, and play it as a straight-up historical game.)

Lately, I've been taking a second look at Swords & Spells with an eye towards using it as the mass combat system for my D&D campaign. I've also been having a good time with Field of Glory as a stand-alone game (some pictures from last week's game).

[vladtolenkov]

Yeah, I was thinking of ordering a few bags of those plastic knight figures for kids and using them for a more historically based Chainmail game.

[thegreyelf]

I really want to give Chainmail a shot in its own right, but I don't have anyone up for playing, sadly

[rick krebs]

Take a look at "The Song of Blades & Heroes" only a $5.00 download or "Horde of the Things" which recently was made available as a free download by Sue Barker. Both offer interesting fantasy combat resolution. While SoBH is more of a skirmish type game, HotT offers larger army battle options.

[Deleted]

I still use CHAINMAIL as my go-to set of historical medieval miniatures rules. I have later rules sets, including some very recent ones -- I find them more complicated, but not better. That is, they don't give me a significantly different result at the end of the battle, but they're harder to use and play.

[Sean Michael Kelly]

I've been considering the same thing since reading H.G. Wells "Little Wars" a couple weeks ago. I'm also going to check out your recommendation, Rick!