Sunday, August 22, 2010
Air War Korea is a set of free wargames rules for introductory level air to air combat in Korea. The author says Air War-Korea is highly suitable for group play and can be learned quickly, with only a few pages of rules. The rules include all markers and templates needed to play the game.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Battle of Britain is a set of free wargames rules for operational level games. The authors write:
This is a fast playing operational level game about the German air raids over England on August 8th, 1940. Designed for group or convention play where players are in charge of the various sectors or Luftwaffe raids and it can be completed in a few hours. This PDF includes the rules, a map, markers, cards, and aditional materials needed to play the game.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Typhoon is a set of free wargames rules for modern jet combat. From the author:
Typhoon is an introductory set of modern jet combat rules that does not require hex mats or any special flight stands for miniatures. It is designed as a quick playing, low complexity game for gamers who are interested in flying multiple aircraft with aircraft from the late 70s up to the Eurofighter and F-35.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
From the publisher:
COMBAT WINGS 12 O’CLOCK are a complete new set of rules, derived from our
WWI aerial rules.
With this rules you can play aerial combats from the Spanish Civil war,
WWII an Corean War.
Our first plane data cards are to play the aerial combats of the Spanish
Civil War, a total of 90 planes of fighters, ground attack planes, bombers,
and reconnaissance.
Download now the game in http://www.capitan-games.com/cw12/
The most complete aerial Game of the Spanish Civil War ever
published¡¡¡¡¡
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Blazing Skies is a set of free wargames rules for WWII tactical combat. Each player commands a single aircraft. The author writes:
Here’s what you get:
45 full colour pages of rules, background, templates, charts, diagrams and quick reference sheets
Six exciting scenarios and one boring one.
A physics model that simulates the effects of gravity, engine power, high energy manouvers.
A campaign game that rewards skillful pilots
Take offs!
Landings!
Prangings!
Collisions!
Gongs!
Random Events!
A huge list of over 100 WW2 and interwar aircraft.Evrything from the mundane to the mad.
Support via email and forums
Clouds
Flack
Bombing
Pilots personal skill
Idiosyncratic Aircraft that behave like their real life counterparts! Except in model form! if its a avro Manchester, it will handle like slop and struggle at altitude, its engines will also overheat!
Updates to new kites and scenarios as and when I get round to doing em.
This is a truely epic set of WW2 rules and is set to become the benchmark for Air Combat games. it is designed for 1/144 or 1/72 scale aircraft and a dogfight is easily playable in 30 mins. Multiplane fights are easily fought to a conclusion in a hour.
The Luftwaffe trained its best pilots in WW2 using these rules.*
The rules are easy to pick up and play and have plenty of examples. in fact, you start off at RAF Debden where the Sq ldr will take you through your first flight.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
PZ8 Aerial is a set of free wargames rules for air combat from 1935 to 1965. The rules are also available there in a pocket, folding format.
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
The PZ8 rules sets have been listed on this site at various times. Now they’re all available as a single collection.
The rules are all just two pages long, and cover:
- Pz8 WW2,
- Pz8 1950-75,
- Pz8 Sci-Fi,
- Pz8 WW2 Divisional,
- Pz8 1939/41 Naval,
- Pz8 1935/65 Aerial,
- Pz8 WW2 Coastal (new!)
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dragons of War is a Wings of War modification to allow you to fight battles set in the world of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Dogfight! is a set of free wargames rules from Don Gelwwe. The rules have a bit of a different flavor from most of the genre. Don writes:
These rules are an attempt to create for players a different experience in gaming WW1 aerial combat. They are meant to confront players with broader tactical decisions that reach beyond the immediate specific-maneuver-choices of a moment within a battle to deal with what is (or will be) happening within the scope of the engagement as a whole. The demands placed on players emphasize these larger decision-making aspects of a pilot’s energies rather than the common, traditional focus on flying of most other rules. By removing the need for the player to micro-manage the piloting of the aircraft (these rules assume that the little fellow in the model already knows how to do that…), gametime can be devoted to deciding what to do rather than how. Instead of choosing which specific maneuver to use to position one’s aircraft in a particular way, players will choose amongst tactical objectives (such as “attack that enemy” or “be over there”) and then decide on the risk-level undertaken to achieve that goal. The success of an effort (attack, defense, movement, observation, etc…) is determined by dice rolls that are influenced by the pilot / aircraft quality as well as the level of risk (which reflects the difficulty of the task attempted).
You also can discuss the rules in the forums here.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Phantoms is a set of free wargames rules based on the old Avalon Hill “Mustangs” game. It’s for playing air combat games from 1960 to present. The link is to the deluxe version with all of the updates, data cards and scenarios.
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Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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