Zhu Bajie
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Steve Curtis, Mike Blake and Ian Colwil's venerable Old West Skirmish Rules from the 1970s are back in print!
http://www.wargaming.co/recreation/details/westerngunfight.htm
Why might these be of interest? Well, Bryan Ansell cited the ruleset a an influence on the development of Laserburn (here), and of course Laserburn -> Confrontation -> Inquisitor. And then Jervis Johnson also drops a little photo of the rules in the Inquisitor rulebook (p.172). They are reputedly foundational in developing skirmish level wargaming. By the way, another of the oldschool rulesets appearing in Inquisitor - Heroes - a medeival RPG with a cover by John Blanche is availiable here.
I haven't read the rulebook (yet) but having a quick glance at the playsheets here and here it's detect some of the influences going in to Laserburn (hit locations, percentile, masses of tables, action points, Maybe even Warhammer with the opposed To-Hit table and modifiers. looks interesting tho.
http://www.wargaming.co/recreation/details/westerngunfight.htm
Why might these be of interest? Well, Bryan Ansell cited the ruleset a an influence on the development of Laserburn (here), and of course Laserburn -> Confrontation -> Inquisitor. And then Jervis Johnson also drops a little photo of the rules in the Inquisitor rulebook (p.172). They are reputedly foundational in developing skirmish level wargaming. By the way, another of the oldschool rulesets appearing in Inquisitor - Heroes - a medeival RPG with a cover by John Blanche is availiable here.
I haven't read the rulebook (yet) but having a quick glance at the playsheets here and here it's detect some of the influences going in to Laserburn (hit locations, percentile, masses of tables, action points, Maybe even Warhammer with the opposed To-Hit table and modifiers. looks interesting tho.