1979 · And That's The Way It Was...
"Being a set of introductory rules for the conduct of miniature battles of the British Empire"
This one set of rules enables the miniature wargamer to play in six different Colonial periods - Pathans 1878, Zulus 1879, Boers 1880, Egyptians 1882, Dervishes 1884 and African Exploration (only in the 20th Anniversary Edition). There is no need for additional supplements or game cards.
By utilizing half-a-dozen or so six-sided dice (d6), about a dozen 10-sided dice (d10), a tape-measure and a standard set of playing cards, this was the first published set of rules to incorporate:
- Variable move distance
- Specific casualty determination
- Random movement and firing sequence
