World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules Quarter Finals

 

After some tough ties in Round 2 we are down to the final 8, the vote links will appear here over the coming days.

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast 86 - Barry Hilton - Reet Big Lily Banners

 

New Podcast Day - the latest Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast is out to the world. All pictures are from my guests collections.

Available on all major Podcast hosts and YouTube or via the link below 

https://kenrtai.podbean.com/e/episode-86-barry-hilton-reet-big-lily-banners/

Now I have drawn everyone to the Yarkshire Gamer Page with the World Cup and sneakily got everyone in the Facebook Group to agree to listen to the Podcast (read the rules, you agreed ro them, not me 😆). You can listen in whilst making your mind up on who to vote for.

My guest is Barry Hilton, rules author, figure maker and all round lovely guy. The pictures are from his collection.

Our chat is wide ranging but covers Lily Banners (no Alex not your X) and the Naval stuff he has done in the Anglo Dutch Wars and WW1.

Whether you are new to the Podcast or an old regular listener (I don't have any young regular listeners) give it a go. Available on the link in the comments, on YouTube or any major Podcast Host (Apple, Spotify etc)

See you for the next one,

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer

#Wargames #Podcast #wargaming #history #hobby

As always here is the previous episode on the Utubes 

28mm Gripping Beast Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ

 

New Unit today and its one I bought years ago, I reckon over 10, I bought them when they came out, so if anyone remembers when that was let me know !

The bulk of the 12 figures are the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ box set from Gripping Beast, I've added another 4 figures to give me additional options of 8, 12 or two sixes on the table.

The Flags are from Flags of War. The bases are 50 x 60 with 2 figs per base.

It took a very long time to get them from the box to the table but I rather like them.

World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules - Round 2

 

The Yarkshire Gamers World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules Round 1 is over.

After 10 days of voting the pack of 203 sets of rules has been reduced to 24 and now 16. Any set of rules that made it through to Round 1 has done well but Round 2 is when the Big Boys enter the room. Or do they ? 

Round 2 sees the 8 quarter finalists from the 2023 enter the fray, so you chose them as well 😉 will those sets still retain their popularity or have the batteries died on the Rampant ! 

So for those who don't listen to the Yarkshire Gamer Podcast (it's not too late) please do so I can save an hour not typing out the rules and explaining what's going on every 5 minutes, it's not like there's a pre-prepared audio guide 😉 

So for the hard of thinking 😆 - the 8 seeds have been draw as the "home" teams , the 8 Round 1 winners as the away teams. To mix the competition up compared to 2023, the 8 seeded teams, where not ranked, so they got a bye into Round 2 but they were not placed on the brackets in seed order, so the first set of rules out of the bawl bag in the draw (which you can listen to on the Podcast) went into the Round 1 position on the bracket etc.

Votes will appear in the Yarkshire Gamer Facebook Page and Group on the dates below, for those new to this apologies if you don't "do" Facebook but it is by far the most accessible, easy and most importantly free, way of doing this.

It's made an interesting run in (the brackets are in the pics below) and could lead to an all Simon Miller match up in the Semi final from the top half of the draw and an all Lardy Semi in the other.

Those who enjoy the numbers, the votes cast for each set in Round 1 are shown in the image below, the sets in purple are the winners. We had 4540 votes in Round 1 and 13,300 in the World Cup so far this year, as a comparison we are likely to overtake the total votes in the 2023 World Cup some time in match 3 in Round 2 this year.

Thanks again for everyone for getting involved, it's mostly been fun 😆 the dates the matches start are on the image below. Winner will be the one with the highest votes and the totals will be those that I see first after the poll ends (weirdly they do change be the odd few after the polls ends). Any draws (yes it has happened before) will be subject to a hour long live penalty shoot out vote, date to be announced of required.

MATCH UPS WILL APPEAR HERE FROM 22ND JUNE

There can be only one !

Match 1

To the Strongest is the winner by 326 votes to 236

Match 2

Sharp Practice wins by 471 votes to 242

Match 3

The winner is Chain of Command by 605 votes to 289

Match 4

The winner is For King and Parliament by 308 votes to 281

Match 5

Midgard wind by 389 to 343

Match 6

Fire and Fury goes through 352 votes to 289

Match 7

The winner is Rapid Fire with 461 votes to 382

Match 8

The winner is O Group with 320 votes to 236

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer 

The updated brackets is there for you to print out and put on the wall so you can see the progress of the competition or you can just ignore it 😆

#wargames #wargaming #hobby #tabletopgaming

World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules - ROUND 1

 

Here's your FREE World Cup Wallchart (no, not the footie one).

Its for you to print out and put on the wall (extra points for pics if you do, no one ever does 😆) 

Voting starts tomorrow one match will be put up each day for 8 days and you can vote on each match for 3 days.

Winner in each match is the one with the most votes, ties will be sorted by a 1 hour penalty shoot out vote, live on utubes. If its still a draw, I will toss a coin.

SHARING LINKS - I will only post links to the voting and advertising for the vote on Yarkshire Gamer socials. If you want to share the links in anyway please feel free to do so, that could be in period specific or rule specific groups. The idea is to get as many votes as possible but I am trying to remain neutral so I leave the promotion outside this group to others.

All voting on Yarkshire Gamer or on the Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames (Podcast) Group 

VOTING LINKS WILL APPEAR HERE EACH DAY

Match 1

The winner after 3 days voting is Midgard with 400 votes to 285.

Match 2

Hail Caesar is the winner with 325 votes to 222.

Match 3

The winner is Pike and Shotte 295 votes to 204

Match 4

What a Cowboy is the winner with 351 votes to 327

Match 5

Rapid Fire wins this match 333 votes to 230

Match 6

The winner is Fire and Fury with 293 votes to 217.

Match 7

Men Who Would be Kings are the winner with 338 votes to 221

Match 8

SAGA gets through this one 264 to 234 votes

At the end of the competition there can be only one !

The final results are (winners in Purple)

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer 

#wargames #wargaming #hobby #tabletopgaming 

Yarkshire Gamer Podcast - Episode 85 - Summer Brews in the Binyard 26

 

Hi all,

Its been a while since the last podcast but I couldn't miss a Summer Brews in the Binyard !

I'm joined by Alex Sotheran from Storm of Steel and Iain Mcdonald of Flags of War for our half yearly loo at the Wargaming World.

WARNING - This podcast contains naughty words and jokes about Wargaming, if you are of a nervous disposition I would turn off this podcast and go and do something more interesting instead !

Available on all major Podcast hosts or via the link below,

https://kenrtai.podbean.com/e/episode-85-summer-brews-in-the-binyard-26/

We start the show with our usual catch up, a chat about Salute (Alex mentioned the award, not me) and Partizan before discussing if too much terrain and not enough figures is an issue on some tables.

Then its the draw and general chat about the 2026 World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules. I may mention my despair at the standard of replies in the Preliminary Round, once or twice.

With the draw done its onto Ask Our Nora when we get stuck into your questions. I have to admit I was absolutely overwhelmed with questions this time and had to close off the question posts 24 hours before the show. We didnt manage to get through all the questions, I have 7 A4 pages of 12 point text of questions we didnt get too.

Apologies if you are one of those, we will try and get to them at a later show.

Sit back and enjoy 

Until next time, Sithee

Regards Ken

The Yarkshire Gamer

Here's the last episode on the utubes

World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules - Preliminary Round Results

 

That's the Preliminary Round over (thank God !) 8760 votes cast for 190 plus nominated rules.

The following rules qualified for Round 1 (votes in brackets after the name)

These rules will be drawn into 8 matches, the winners go through to Round 2 when they will be matched up against the following seeds.

The 8 who just missed out are 

The also rans are

Voting underway in World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules

 

VOTING IN THE YARKSHIRE GAMERS WORLD CUP OF HISTORICAL WARGAMES RULES IS UNDERWAY !

3 Years Ago 108 sets of Historical #Wargames Rules battled it out over 6 weeks for Chain of Command to come out as World Cup Winners, can they win again.

Voting is underway in the Preliminary Round, there are two alphabetically sorted groups, people can pick 6 from each group. The top 16 across both Groups progress to Round 1.

Voting in Group 1 (A to J) is here

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DCbovheaY/

Voting in Group 2 (K to Z) is here

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BLAygQBD8/

Please share this far and wide so we get the most votes possible 👍

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer 

#Wargames #wargaming #tabletopgames #hobby #history

World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules 2026 Preliminary Round

 

WORLD CUP BEGINS TODAY 

Please read the following before posting it will avoid a sarcastic response in the comments !

The second running of the Yarkshire Gamers World Cup of Historical Wargames Rules begins today with the NOMINATION phase of the PRELIMINARY round.

Until Monday morning you have the opportunity to nominate sets of rules that are NOT ALREADY in the World Cup. The pictures in this post show you the 8 seeds and 100 other sets of rules that are already in the competition. The existing list are the Rules from the last World Cup who got votes along with a few new sets I've added to make it up to 100.

Nominations are on the following page 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1H39AS1Qat/

Unfortunately everything is run on Facebook so apologies if you are not on there, after 4 years and tens of thousands of votes I've found no easier way of running it !

ENTRANCE TO THE WORLD CUP IS BY NOMINATION - DONT MOAN YOUR FAVOURITE RULES ARENT IN, ITS BECAUSE THEY HAVENT BEEN NOMINATED YET - YOU NEED TO NOMINATE THEM 😄

The Seeds are

The already nominated rules are

ELIGIBILITY 

1. The rules must be for Historical Wargames 

2. The rules must be for a Miniature based game

3. The rules must be published and have been, or are commercially avaliable 

4. Rule sets with more than one version will only get ONE nomination so Chain of Command and Chain of Command 2 are covered in the same nomination.

NOMINATION PROCESS 

1. Check the list of 108 sets (the 100 existing nominations are in alphabetical order) already in the competition and make sure your choice is not participating already.

2. Check it is eligible 

3. Make a comment here which starts "I nominate" then the name of the set of rules you are nominating plus a very brief description (a sentence at most) so I can find the rules if I don't know them.

4. ONLY ONE NOMINATION PER COMMENT !!!

5. Only THREE nominations per person per day.

NEXT PHASE

1. On Monday this post will be closed and the voting will begin.

2. Nominations will still be allowed after voting begins but will be made on the vote post.

3. Voting will last 7 days and the 16 sets of rules with the most votes will enter the draw for Round 1 of the World Cup.

IMPORTANT 

1. I am the only one running this so please DONT BE A DI*K. You can't nominate your mates rules you play down the club, this isn't a game of nominating the most obscure rules you can think of.

2. Please keep chat down on this post as it will get busy, feel free to start your own discussion posts in the group.

3. Please share far and wide the more people get involved the better.

4. If you are not a member of the Facebook Group you will need to post nominations on the Yarkshire Gamer Page or join the Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames Podcast Group. If you do join you HAVE to answer the questions !

5. MY DECISIONS ARE FINAL, I WILL LEAVE A COMMENT ON ANY NOMINATION EITHER REJECTING IT OR WITH THE WORD "ADDED" 

6. I do not intend to update the images 

Let's have some fun with it and let the Games Begin

Regards Ken 

Yarkshire Gamer