Friday, January 02, 2009
Age of Heroes is a set of simple skirmish rules for playing skirmish games in the Bronze Age. These originally appeared in Wargames Illustrated.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
The late Terry Gore was known for his deep knowledge of ancient warfare. Here’s a set of fast play rules for Ancient Warfare from the master. They’re a variant of his Medieval Fast Play rules, which won an Origins Award in 1998.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Minimal Melee Combat is a set of free wargames rules for ancient and fantasy man-to-man combat. The author writes:
From Gladiorial contests to Medieval knights duking it out, man-to-man combat with swords and shields had been the primary form of combat for a thousand years. The advent of fantasy role playing games and the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) has made it popular in the gaming hobby.
Minimal Melee Combat is a simple game designed to create a feeling for combat between to combatants armed with swords. It is not designed to be an accurate simulation and make no attempts at this. It is a quick and easy game of simple hack ‘n slash.
Put your armor on, pick up your sword and shield, and enter the fray.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Oceanus Strategoi is a set of rules for fighting with the war galleys of ancient Greece and Rome. Author
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Familia Gladiatoria is a set of rules and a campaign for playing the ancient gladiatorial games of Rome. The rules are here, and the action cards here.
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Hoplon 3 is a nicely done set of ancients rules for large scale battles. Once commercially published, these now are available for free. The authors write:
The HOPLON rule system was designed from the start to use many of the troop types, mechanisms and army composition lists of DBM, while re-introducing those aspects of ancient warfare that have been lost through the pursuit of championship competitiveness. This allows players who wish to wargame utilizing realistic tactics, without having to sacrifice their competition-designed armies, to do so. HOPLON is by no means a DBM derivative in that it significantly differs in a number of crucial areas:
opponents move and fight ‘simultaneously’ and can do so either organized into units or as unformed elements; various troop types may evade or break-off, all may flee or pursue, making the battlefield far more fluid and, at times, less predictable; shooting has received special attention and all troops that could do so may use this to their advantage, but purely missile troops may be limited in hand-to-hand combat; elite troops are truly capable when compared to untrained levies and can be devastating if
handled properly, and, although the PiP system is retained, better commanders have the ability to influence the mobility of their troops beyond the roll of a single die –at a price.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Glory In The Arena is a set of rules for playing gladiatorial combat with 54mm figures.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Pharaoh Rides To War is a set of rules for 20mm battles between Egyptians and Assyrians.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
There’s been an update for the free basic rules for Impetus, a set of ancient and medieval wargames rules.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
The Jackson Gamers offer Ancients By Ral, an ancients version of the venerable Rules By Ral system.
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Poll #3:
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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.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
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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