Welcome to Day of Battle Games
Here you will find information on the games I have written and published and how to purchase them.
My rules are all available in print and pdf formats.
Chris Parker
D-Day to Berlin
D-Day to Berlin Corps Level Wargame Rules
D-Day to Berlin is a fast-playing game designed to recreate corps level battles of the Second World War, using miniatures to represent the combat battalions and counters to represent the supporting air and artillery.
The game is Army Level with a turn representing 2-4 hours. A day is 6-8 turns with a night time turn.
I started out with 15mm troops with an infantry battalion stand being 50mm x 30mm (Flames of War basing). Recently I migrated down to 12mm.
The table is divided up into 6″ square blocks called zones. Each is about 2.5 to 3 miles square.
Players are at a minimum a Division commander with 8-12 battalions and artillery support.
Experienced players can control 2-3 divisions which makes them a corps commander.
As a general commanding one or more Divisions, you must decide how to make the best use of your battalions, detachments, and supports to fulfill your assigned objectives. The game is designed to give a sense and feel of the war at this level of operation and still be a fast and fun game.
The inspiration for the game came from KISS Rommel with insight from both Rommel by Sam Mustafa and Great Battles of WWII by Bruce McFarlane.
You might like these other DDtB products
Bagration to Berlin Sourcebook for the Russian Front >>>
Colmar Pocket – DDtB France free scenario >>>
Relief of Bastogne – DDtB Bulge scenario >>>
Six Panzer Armee – DDtB Bulge scenario >>>
US, German and British Division Army Lists >>>
Videos on YouTube – Playlist
Light Bobs
Light Bobs
Skirmish Level Wargame Rules for the American Revolution
Light Bobs is a wargame set during the American Revolution. The rules are named after the nickname given to the British Light Infantry in the period.
The rules are written to simulate wing or brigade level action. Gamers tend to command a battalion or legion strength formation.
The game is for two or more players. Each player is represented on the table by a special leader figure. Action is fast and sharp with units of mixed arms and varying morale types.
There are detailed army lists covering the four theaters of the American Revolution: Boston, Saratoga, the Mid-Atlantic States and the South. The lists, used in combination with the army creation rules, allow players to move from one theater to another, fighting actions with different types of armies. For example, an army in the Saratoga campaign looks entirely different from one in the South: the former has Indians but no mounted troops while the latter has mounted troops but no Indians.
To bring out the individuality of the scale and period further I have used the personality rules from one of my previous rule sets: Day of Battle. This allows players to learn, or not as the case may be, from battle to battle rising from the rank of Captain to the dizzying heights of General. This allows you to run a simple paperless campaign. I have also reused the command and battle line morale rules from Day of Battle so if you have ever used my rules before these sections will be more than familiar.
YouTube Light Bobs Videos
Order Print Version $15.00 >>>
Order PDF Version Seven Years War Army Sourcebook PDF >>>
Day of Battle
Day of Battle the Middle Ages
Revision 01
The game mechanisms in Day of Battle are designed to give a game that has the feeling of the period, not just the battle. Like most published games of the past and present, Day of Battle: the Middle Ages can be played as standalone game where players setup a game, have a great time and then pack up and move on or use the campaign rules to make the results of the current battle effect the next battle.
Order Print Version $15.00 >>>
You might like these other Day of Battle products
Crusader Warfare Supplement PDF >>>
Norman Conquests Supplement PDF >>>
YouTube Videos
Author Chris Parker
Chris Parker – a life long wargamer and rules author
Hello, my name is Chris Parker. I grew up in West Newbury Mass and have been wargaming since the late 1960′s. My life long friend Ray Estabrook, his brother Jeff Estabrook and my brothers all played soldiers with 54mm plastic figures. We had a simple set of rules set in England during the Middle Ages. Interestingly enough I have taken some rules from them and incorporated them into my skirmish set of rules. Ray and his wife Pat own a game store located in Belfast Maine called All About Games.
An Introduction to Wargames
n 1971 I discovered The New England Wargamer’s Association (NEWA) and The Courier Magazine and they had published rules and huge armies. Dick Bryant and the other members of the club took me under their wing and led me into what would become a lifelong addiction. This is where I first met Arnold Hendricks playing his games 1944 and Surface Warship.
The Toy Soldier Wargames Store
In the late 1970′s Ray and I opened a game shop in Newburyport Mass called the Toy Soldier. It was a franchise of the Toy Soldier in Bath Maine owned by Peter Rice. Peter had originally bought “Lowry’s Mail Order” from Don Lowry and moved it and his family to Bath. The rest is Maine wargaming history.
During this time Peter, Ray and The Companions game company published my first rules called Knighthood and the Middle Ages. They also published Peter’s WWII man to man game called Follow Me. A few years later I republished a second edition of Knighthood. About a decade after that I moved onto a new type of game and released my first edition called Day of Battle. The name was actually from Ray’s man to man dark ages rules that he never published. To this day I feel they were a lost treasure to us all.
Over the 10 years it was open I had two additional partners. First there was Mike Cooper and then Tom Giuseppe. Both were good friends and believed in the store. Mike passed away in 2015, RIP.
As I look back over the road it has been an interesting path and I have enjoyed every minute of it.
You can contact me at sentry 1212 at dayofbattle dot com
Chris Parker
