I was up the loft last night in search of the Xmas tree decorations, which is always a good excuse to have a rummage in the piles of wargames magazines, rules and models that I’ve banished to a higher plane. In one of the box files of rules I found my old copy of Imperial Commander, which is a platoon level skirmish set of sci-fi rules based on the Laserburn system and written way back in the early ’80’s by Bryan Ansell and Richard Halliwell no less. 

I haven’t played it for years and it’s probably very, very clunky but, in a moment of nostalgia, I decided to bring it down from the loft for a read through. I was thinking that it could be another possible use for my desert terrain board and scenery, especially as I have lots of the old TTG 15mm figures and quite like the idea of some retro sci-fi gaming, even of I ditch the rules and use something else like Gruntz or Galactic Heroes, for example…

…and you’ve got to love the 1980’s pen and ink cover art!