Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures
1971Gary Gygax, Jeff Perren
2 - 10 players
360 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
Chainmail is a medieval miniatures wargame created by Gary Gygax and fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) member Jeff Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom Gygax had become friendly. The game was first published in 1971 by Guidon Games. That first edition also included a fantasy supplement, and is one of the oldest sets of rules for fantasy miniature wargaming. In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) acquired the rights to publish Chainmail and the game may have been the basis for the earliest Dungeons & Dragons game and campaigns (Dave Arneson, co-author of the original D&D game, apparently disputes this). In the original boxed set of D&D one is directed to Chainmail for the combat system but it offered an "optional" combat system involving 20 sided dice -- a system that eventually became the D&D standard. Regardless of who you believe, the Chainmail fantasy supplement contained spells and monsters that reappeared in Dungeons & Dragons and most certainly influenced Gary Gygax and his thinking about Fantasy games in that era.
Which Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures video should I watch?
Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures has 2 videos from 1 creator: 2 how-to-play guides. They date from December 2019.
If you like it, try Boot Hill and Alexander the Great, also by Gary Gygax, or Star Trek: Into The Unknown – Federation vs. Dominion Core Set and Lost Battles: Forty Battles & Campaigns of the Ancient World, which share several of its mechanics.
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About Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Miniatures
From BoardGameGeek:
Chainmail is a medieval miniatures wargame created by Gary Gygax and fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) member Jeff Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom Gygax had become friendly. The game was first published in 1971 by Guidon Games. That first edition also included a fantasy supplement, and is one of the oldest sets of rules for fantasy miniature wargaming. In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) acquired the rights to publish Chainmail and the game may have been the basis for the earliest Dungeons & Dragons game and campaigns (Dave Arneson, co-author of the original D&D game, apparently disputes this). In the original boxed set of D&D one is directed to Chainmail for the combat system but it offered an "optional" combat system involving 20 sided dice -- a system that eventually became the D&D standard. Regardless of who you believe, the Chainmail fantasy supplement contained spells and monsters that reappeared in Dungeons & Dragons and most certainly influenced Gary Gygax and his thinking about Fantasy games in that era.
Designers
Gary Gygax, Jeff Perren
Artist
Don Lowry
Publisher
Guidon Games
Categories
Mechanics
Dice RollingLine of SightMeasurement MovementRoll & Write / Paper-and-Pencil