Good riddance to:-

[Bankinista]

Can't help feeling that the new posts section of the site is less than perfect. It says:

Re: Good riddance to:-
martin goddard

Although I'm next.

Derek of Cambridge

[martin goddard]

That might be valid in a few years?


martin

[Leman (Andy)]

Newbury rules were interminably slow, although the fast play were quicker (I fondly remember a Roman game in the early 80s with my brother), they were still long by today's sense of 'fast play'.

[Jim R]

I recognise this is an older topic but I definitely don't miss computations involving armour thickness, armour angle, projectile type, muzzle velocity, your aunt Doreen's favourite colour and any number of other obscure factors.
Maybe that's already been covered but good riddance! 
To be fair, I started *serious* wargaming with Gavin Lyall's "Operation Warboard" rules in the 80s. (Before that it was Britains and Airfix in the sand pit). 
I'd give an award for the epic sounding title, which to a teenaged acne ridden Jim conjured up images of "A Bridge Too Far".
However I'd award nil pointes for accessibility.
One novel feature was requiring players to scribe out fiddly little templates on OHP transparency sheets. Don't miss that at all.
I guess it were proper job at the time but I bust so much pocket money trying to mark them out! 
Right, I think I might have tired myself out.
Toodle pip chaps.

[Leman (Andy)]

WRG rules, Newbury rules, enamel paints, plasticine for conversions, yacht varnish, Army Painter dip. Weirdly I have discovered a late in life fondness for plastic kit bashing, so 15mm metal WWI and 28mm plastic early Saxons on the go at the minute.

[owaincaesarius]

Log table and factor based rule mechanisms.
Firework display games due to lack of command friction thus allowing everyone to move exactly how their commanders want every turn.
Written orders.
By and large, in our group, points based games.

[Leman (Andy)]

Being tied to 40x20 bases. Many of my smaller figures are now mounted on much smaller bases than those recommended by the rules. Also goodbye to "for smaller figures use centimetres rather than inches". Sometimes that's a shrinkage too far, thus where Inches are used in the rules I make my own rulers with "inches" expressed as fractions of an inch to suit the amount of downsizing I have done. And who says the table has to be 6x4. I now play most of my games on 5x3, 4x3, 2x2. I can still manage 6x3 if necessary, but that would be a 28mm skirmish game.

[Martin Smith]

Being tied to 40x20 bases. Many of my smaller figures are now mounted on much smaller bases than those recommended by the rules. Also goodbye to "for smaller figures use centimetres rather than inches". Sometimes that's a shrinkage too far, thus where Inches are used in the rules I make my own rulers with "inches" expressed as fractions of an inch to suit the amount of downsizing I have done. And who says the table has to be 6x4. I now play most of my games on 5x3, 4x3, 2x2. I can still manage 6x3 if necessary, but that would be a 28mm skirmish game.

Sounds familiar....for 'x' Rampant in 15mm I use "double the inch distance, use cm", so a nominal 6" move becomes '2x6= 12cm', about a 20% reduction, and 'dining room table compatible'. Same idea, measuring sticks marked out in relevant converted distances.