TSR 2008 - Chainmail, 3rd Edition.pdf - Original D&D - Kitraida

Chainmail

rules for medieval miniatures

3rd

Edition

Gary Gygax

Jeff Perren

ILLUSTRATED BY DON LOWRY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

INTRODUCTION

RULES FOR MEDIEVAL MINIATURES

Turn Sequence ...............................

Terrain Effects Upon Movement ......................

Terrain Selection .............................

Movement .................................

Formation and Facing ...........................

Fatigue ..................................

Missile Fire (excluding Gunpowder and Catapults) ............

Catapult Fire ...............................

Gunpowder Weapons ............................

Melees ..................................

Melee Optionals ..............................

Morale ...................................

Historical Characteristics (Optional) ...................

Weather ..................................

Sieges ...................................

MAN-TO-MAN COMBAT

Jousting ..................................

Suggested Point Values ..........................

FANTASY SUPPLEMENT

Fantastic Characteristics .........................

Hobbits, Sprites, Dwarves, Goblins, Elves ...............

Orcs, Heroes (and Anti-heroes), Super Heroes .............

Wizards .................................

Wraiths, Lycanthropes, Trolls ......................

Balrogs, Giants, Ents, Dragons .....................

Rocs, Elementals ............................

Wights. .................................

Magical Weapons .............................

Air Movement ...............................

Catapult Fire vs. Fantastic Figures ....................

Combination Figures ............................

Fantastic Sieges ..............................

General Line-up .............................

TABLES

Combat Tables ...................... 40

Man-to-man Melee Table ................ 41

Individual Fires with Missiles .............. 41

Jousting Matrix ..................... 42

Fantasy Reference Table ................. 43

Fantasy Combat Table .................. 44

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

APPENDIX D

APPENDIX E

Introduction

Games based on warfare have interested men for centuries, as such games as

checkers and chess prove. The latter games are nothing less than the warfare of

the period in which they were developed, abstracted and stylized for play on a

board. Chess is so abstracted that it is barely recognizable as a wargame. At the

other end of the spectrum, and of much more modern invention, are military

miniatures. By use of figures scaled down to an inch or two in size the players

more realistically simulate warfare and are not tied to a stylized board. Minia-

ture warfare allows the combatants to have a never ending variety of battles

over varying terrain, even refighting historic actions involving tremendous

armies I

In order to play a wargame it is necessary to have rules, miniature figures

and accompanying equipment, a playing area, and terrain to place upon it.

There can be no doubt that you have fulfilled the first requirement, for you have

purchased this set of rules. Your troops can be any scale that you desire. The

playing area that the battles are fought out upon should be a table rather than

the floor. It can be from a minimum of 4' to a maximum of 7' wide, and it should

be at least 8' in length. These sizes will assure ample room for maneuver. There

are several methods of depicting the terrain features generally used for wargames,

such as hills, woods, rivers, roads, etc.

First, you can utilize odds and ends to simulate terrain, or buy commercial

materials from your hobby supplier, and lay them out on a flat surface to form

the battleground. Scraps of wood with the edges and corners smoothed are pyra-

mided to form hills of varying size and elevation. Twigs with pieces of green

sponge or lichen stuck on and set in clay bases serve as miniature trees. Rivers

are drawn with blue chalk or made with strips of blue plastic or felt. Roads are

represented in much the same way as rivers, only brown is used. With a little

imagination almost any kind of terrain can be constructed in like manner.

A more advanced method is to construct terrain on 2' x 2' pieces of masonite

or similar material, sculpting hills, gullies, ridges, rivers, and so on with plas-

ter and/or paper mache. Trees and houses are set into the soft modeling com-

pound, and permanent sections of wargaming terrain are thus made. When a

game is to be played, the terrain blocks are simply laid out to form the kind of

battlefield desired.

Finally, the most complicated form of wargaming table is the sand table. A

sand table is really nothing more than a flat table with a raised edge to allow

the top to be covered with a few inches of sand. Of course, all that sand will

weigh very much when wetted down to form terrain features, so the table must

be of very sturdy construction and rest on a basement or garage floor. The sand

table's greatest advantage is that it allows full rein to the players' desires for

differing landscape, and it provides the most realistic looking battlefields for

miniature warfare.

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