Is this Oldhammer?

Scalene

Scalene

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Today I came across a link to one of my favourite old sites, and revisiting it made me think that it had a great deal in common with Oldhammer. Admittedly there are no 80's Jes Goodwin sculpts, no WFB 3rd edition and indeed no fantasy of the conventional kind at all, but the ethos is definitely there. They play narrative games, with quirky objectives, self-invented larger-than-life characters, inventive home-made scenery and a general contempt for points systems and the letter of the rules.

I don't know how many of you have seen this before (perhaps it's old hat), but I couldn't find any reference to it on this forum. It's no longer a live site but you can access the glorious, Major General Tremorden Rederring's via this link to the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20060614041903/http://zeitcom.com/majgen/index.html.

The raid on the Sher-Li Temple is a good example of his battle reports: http://web.archive.org/web/20051217025231/http://www.zeitcom.com/majgen/836sherli1.html
 
I was going through old White Dwarf issues last night, and oddly enough I can't find any mention of this game "Oldhammer" at all?
 
Make Lurve, Not Waaaah:

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Meanwhile (before the OP decides we're all quite mad here)...

IMHO Major General Tremorden Rederring's wargaming represents the kind of creative, gentlemanly wargaming that is very much the spirit as Oldhammer, but doesn't use an Old (pre-IPO) edition of War-hammer to achieve it's goals, so isn't Old-hammer, but is directly relevant to the playstyle.

Thanks for the links, I for one will enjoy reading through the site!
 
Zhu nailed it.

The style of gaming, in which lots of "Oldhammer" fits very well, is often referred to as adventure gaming on other places online. See for instance the Lead Adventure forums with it's vast, vast repository of amazing narrative campaign reports in a multitude of genres. I can see how a lot of people who haven't been exposed to adventure gaming prior to oldhammer would say "hey, these guys play oldhammer in a 1920s setting". It's been going on for decades and sprawls all settings though.
 
Smart-aleck coment aside, cool link Scalene. I'm convinced I've seen it before years ago, possibly searching for ship building ideas? There's a boat that looks awfully like a cardboard one I made some time ago but forgot where I copied it from.

There are a couple of great terrain ideas there, too!

The "vertical mountains" here are such a fun idea. I might make some for table edges rather than in-game (reminds me of movie props!)

http://web.archive.org/web/200606201045 ... 4mtsc.html

And while I think that "true line of sight" can bugger-off in most games, I still think a periscope is a fun idea :)

http://web.archive.org/web/200606201043 ... persc.html

(The other boys are right by the way. I kind of like the "hobby wargaming" term the site uses.)

It's worth occasionally going through old sites like that. I'd forgotten how much I hated it when every person thought they had to write some apologetic "site under construction" with crummy image on every homepage :)
 
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