Wargaming Live
Posted on Friday 28th October 2016
Led by commissioning editor Phil Sidnell and author and Warhammer creator Rick Priestley.









Rick Priestley is the world’s most successful and best known wargame designer. He has created many professional wargames including Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, which together have outsold all other wargames by a huge margin. He is also the author of successful sets of historical wargame rules for several periods, including Black Powder and Hail Caesar.
Further Reading
Tabletop Wargames: A Designers’ and Writers’ Handbook
(Paperback - 157 pages)
ISBN: 9781783831487
by Rick Priestley
Only £14.99
Unlike chess or backgammon, tabletop wargames have no single, accepted set of rules. Most wargamers at some point have had a go at writing their own rules and virtually all have modified commercially available sets to better suit their idea of the ideal game or to adapt favourite rules to a different historical period or setting. But many who try soon find that writing a coherent set of rules is harder than they thought, while tweaking one part of an existing set can often have unforeseen consequences for the game…
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"An interesting and useful book, which will undoubtedly be frequently taken off the war gamers’ shelf for reference." - STUART ASQUITH, Author
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