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The Wargames Research Group (WRG) publish wargaming rules. In contrast to earlier rules, they attempted to base their rules on historical research.

They are associated with the Society of Ancients.

Mostly, WRG produce rules for miniature wargaming.

= History =

WRG were founded by Phil Barker.

WRG created some wargames rules for the ancient period.

Features of the rules included:

army selection based on points (better troops required more points, giving the gamer a choice between a small but high-quality army, or a larger but lower-quality army, and also allowed the matching of armies from different historical periods).
morale rules that could result in armies panicking and running away, or getting too excited and charging the enemy, like the Varangians at Dyrrhachium.

The great rebasing debate of 197?: WRG reduced the base sizes of figurines, effectively forcing owners of 25mm figures to go out and buy a new army of 20mm figures.

Later WRG extended their rules to the mediaeval and early-modern periods.

WRG also produced some rules for the 'horse and musket' period and the (then) contemporary period.

WRG also introduced army lists to ensure that armies were historically accurate.

= Products =

Historical

Rules for Ancients (1000 BC - 1000 AD), went to (at least) four editions.

Rules for Napoleonic.

Tony Bath, Setting up a wargames campaign (May 1973, 75pp). Chapters "How to set up your campaign", "map movement", "contacts, battles and after affects", "umpires - and the lack of same", "supply and replacement", "characterisation", "campaign extras", "horse and musket campaigns", "Victorian campaigns", "World War I", "World War II", "mini campaigns", and "naval campaigns".

Richard Nelson, Naval wargames rules: fleet action (September 1973, 20pp and two copies of a quick reference card).

Decline and Fall (board game), about the fall of the Roman empire.

Various reference books eg Warfleets of antiquity.

Seastrike ('modern' naval warfare, about 1970).

Current

Some of WRG's current offerings are De Bellis Antiquitatis (DBA), De Bellis Multitudinis (DBM) and De Bellis Renationis (DBR) rule sets for the ancient, medieval and renaissance periods.

Another is Hordes of the Things.

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