I asked staff at The Wargamer (
www.wargamer.com), and got a very nice reply,
if you can find any access to these:
At 07:21 PM 5/13/2007 -0400, COL (Ret) Bill Gray wrote:
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1. Armies of Medieval Russia, 750 - 1250 AD, David Nicole, Angus McBride illus, Osprey 333.
2. WRG De Bellis Multitudinis Army Lists Book 3: 476 AD - 1071 AD, Phil Barker and Richard Bodley Scott, list 78, Early Russian 1054 - 1246 AD (1994)
3. WRG Ancients Army Lists Book 3, Armies Originating after 1000 AD, Phil Barker, list Early Russian 1054 AD - 1246 AD (1982, out of print)
Number two and three are from the same company, with number three being most detailed (eg, Druzhina Heavy Cavalry, Morale Grade B, Javelin or Light Spear, Shield; Polovtsy skirmishers, etc) as it is the more tactical game. For the DBM army lists, you would likely need the rules to translate some of the specifics. Both lists cover from the breakup of the Kievian state until the Mongol conquest.
An American set called Warrior has pretty much supplanted WRG Ancients, but I have a copy of the base rules only, so I have no idea if they have included the early Russians in their expansion army lists. If you can somehow get your hands on number three above, it will give you, in well researched (as in archaeological references) wargame terms, more than you would ever want to know about this army.
Regards, Bill Gray
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