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Chainmail is a medieval miniatures wargame created by Jeff Perren and Gary Gygax. Gygax developed...

Chainmail is a medieval miniatures wargame created by Jeff Perren and Gary Gygax. Gygax developed the game with fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association member Perren, a hobby-shop owner that he had become friendly with, and the set of rules for medieval miniatures combat was published in 1971. The 1971 edition includes a fantasy supplement and is one of the oldest sets of rules for fantasy miniature wargaming, containing spells and monsters that would reappear in Dungeons and Dragons. The use of 40 mm Elastolin miniatures for medieval wargaming was promoted by Siege of Bodenburg which appeared in Strategy & Tactics magazine in 1967. This motivated Jeff Perren to develop a few pages of his own rules for these miniatures. He introduced the rules to Gary Gygax and the LGTSA. Gygax expanded the rules to 16 pages and published them in the newsletter of the Castle & Crusade Society. In the core rules, each figure represents 20 men. Troops are divided into six basic types: light foot, heavy foot, armored foot, light horse, medium horse, and heavy horse. Melee is resolved by rolling six-sided dice: for example, when heavy horse is attacking light foot, the attacker is allowed to