Tony Bath’s Ancient Wargaming: Including Setting up a Wargames Campaign and the Hyborian Campaign

by Tony Bath, John Curry (Editor)

'Without Tony Bath, there would be no Slingshot for us to read, Ancient Wargaming would not have become the most influential and popular branch of the hobby and the art of Wargames Campaigns would be much less richly developed.' Phil Barker, WRG, DBA, DBM, DBMMTony Bath’s early inspiration was the force that launched ancient wargaming. With his friend Donald Featherstone, he pioneered the first table top ancient battles and the most well-known of all wargaming campaigns, the Legend of Hyboria. This compilation of his work The Pelast and Pila Ancient Wargaming RulesThe complete book, Setting up a Wargames CampaignThe Legend of Hyboria (including notes on the conclusion of that climatic campaign)Setting up a Wargames Campaign is a complete guide to setting up an ancient and medieval campaign and has chapters movementContact, battles and after effects Playing with umpires and withoutSupplies and replacementsGuidelines on running campaigns in other periods. As Donald Featherstone said, 'a perfect little book'This book has been produced in partnership with the Society of AncientsThe History of Wargaming Project is edited by John Curry. It aims to present the very best wargaming books and rules to a modern audience.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2016

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down as a new wargamer. Filled with so much advice and information that it really makes me want to run my own wargame campaign. The section on Hyboria and what the players did really shows you how much each player was having with the gameworld.