Just before I broke my leg, I bought a copy of Patrick and Earl Boal’s DAD'S GAME: OLD SCHOOL TABLETOP WARGAMING RULES but never got around to reading it until now as it had been left on my work table in the toy/wargame room.
The book is mainly scanned images of the rules written by Earl Boal in the 1980s. Most of the text is typed – although there are some handwritten annotations – and survived because they were kept in plastic ring file pockets. The book ends with the text of a letter containing a battle report that was sent by Earl to his son (Patrick) along with a number of black & white photographs of a wargame they had fought some months earlier.
As to the rules … well, it is stated clearly in the introduction that they were based on the rules in Charles Grant's THE WAR GAME.
However, the Boal's adapted them so that they could use the wide variety of figures in their collection. This is borne out by the photographs of one of their wargames which shows Napoleonic soldiers fighting troops armed with pikes!
I bought these rules out of simple curiosity … and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the short booklet that contains them. In my opinion, the price – which is £3.22 from Amazon – is very reasonable and any wargamer who enjoys using Charles Grant’s rules should enjoy reading this publication.
DAD'S GAME: OLD SCHOOL TABLETOP WARGAMING RULES was written Patrick and Earl Boal and published by them in 2023 (ISBN 979 8 3978 8259 0).
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