The Rapid Fire Rules are my preferred choice for WWII wargaming, especially for my 10mm WWII Project. They strike a perfect balance between historical accuracy and engaging gameplay. Their streamlined mechanics ensure smooth battles, while still allowing for tactical depth, making them ideal for both newcomers and experienced players alike.
Reloaded

Rapid Fire Reloaded is the latest version of the Rapid Fire basic rules for W.W.2 wargaming with miniatures. The original fast play rules are now even faster, with new, easy to remember mechanisms and streamlined systems. Play using the standard Rapid Fire 1:15 figure and 1:5 vehicle ratios for brigade-level engagements, or use for 1:1 skirmishes or even 1:45/1:15 divisional level battles. Handy A5 size booklet you can hold in one hand during games
- Fully compatible with the advanced rules section of ‘Rapid Fire!’
- Easy to pick up for experienced Rapid Fire players and ideal for newcomers to RF.
- Free online ‘Reloaded’ vehicle and gun charts for many nations.
- Includes two ‘battlegrouped’, points-balanced forces and a Normandy scenario that you can play to ‘action learn’ the rules
- 16 pages packed with rules, rules, rules!
Reloaded Extra

Rapid Fire Reloaded Extra provides additional rules for some of the more specialist or unusual activities that armies carried out on the World War Two battlefield. Once you have mastered the basic rules in Rapid Fire Reloaded you can add Reloaded Extra to expand your games and try different ways of overcoming or trying to stop the enemy! The 16 page A5 booklet includes Para troops and gliders, ground attacks by aircraft, amphibious landings, minefields and engineering and much more.
Rapid Fire 2nd Edition

Rapid Fire Wargaming Rules by Colin Rumford and Richard Marsh is a set of fast play miniatures rules which enables players to re-fight brigade-level combined arms engagements during WWII. Provides an interesting mix of supporting weapons to go with your infantry, such as artillery, aircraft and armour. Very good rule set to introduce players to World War II miniature gaming.
- 120 full-colour, custom-designed pages
- Comprehensive basic and advanced rules sections
- 15 pages of pictorial organisation charts for major nations
- Vehicle and gun charts free to support the above
- Numbered rules set out in a clear order of play for easy reference
- Rules explanation backed by 100 + photos and 30 diagrams.
- Two scenarios, that you can replay, illustrating the rules in action
- Advanced rules for everything from medical support to air combat
- Practical tips and hints to help you on the tabletop
Rapid Fire 1st Edition

Fast Play World War Two Wargames Rules For use with 20mm Miniatures.
Includes 8 Scenarios:
- Hondeghem
- Gallabat
- Corinth Canal Bridge
- Honk Kong
- Vaagso
- Chebotarevsky
- Barce
- Safi
Plus 8 pages of colour Photographs.
73 Pages.
Rapid Fire Supplements
German Tank Units Russian Front 1941 – 1942

Includes panzer units at Kharkov and Stalingrad, the organisation of early kampfgruppen and lots of specialist units.
- 40 full colour pages
- Graphic orders of battle
Rapid Fire Russian Tank Units 1941 – 1942

Includes fully illustrated RF orders of battle of tank regiments in mechanised divisions, early and later tank brigades, tank units at Stalingrad, heavy tank units and supporting infantry formations
Packed with historical and modelling information.
- 44 full colour pages
- Graphic orders of battle
Scenarios for the Russian Front 1941 – 1945

14 diverse scenarios including cavalry actions and amphibious landings with rule suggestions for winter and house to house fighting.
Unit Organisations for the Russian Front 1941 – 1945

A comprehensive guide to the basic organisations fighting of the Russian Front including:
- German
- Romanian
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Slovakian
- Finish
- Soviet
German Tank Units – Russian Front 1943 – 1945

Details of actual units including the 6th Panzer Division at Kursk and the short lived Panzer Brigades.
Soviet Tank Units – Russian Front 1941 – 1942

Early Soviet units including the mixed arms tank brigades.
Soviet Tank Units – Russian Front 1943 – 1945

Late war Soviet units including heavy tank regiments and details of American tank formations.
German Tank Units – Russian Front 1941 – 1942

Lots more actual German panzer units for the early war period including the forces engaged at Stalingrad.
Rapid Fire Downloads
Sources
- Rapid Fire Rules
- Also available through my shop East Front Miniatures, Rapid Fire Rules & Supplements. (full disclosure I own the company).
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