Saturday, August 11, 2007
Nauta is a set of free miniature wargames rules for playing out ancient naval battles. The files are hosted here.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
ASP games offers a set of “traditional” ancients wargames rules called “Historicon.” It sounds like my kind of game—fast play and lots of dice.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Phalanx is a set of free wargames rules for army level ancient warfare. It uses a system in which combat is resolved with one die and does not require rebasing (hooray!)
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Using a standard deck of cards, Jim Wallman’s Field of Honor is:
a simple two player card game that is an abstract depiction of two armies facing each other on the battlefield. It can either be played as a simple two player card game, or as a sub-game to a more complex wargame – say a campaign where you wish to resolve minor battles without resorting to setting out model soldiers.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Bronzed Heroes is a set of free wargames rules for miniatures games set in the bronze age.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Blades of Bronze is a set of free wargames rules designed for short skirmish 15mm ancient wargames. The rules revolve around the ability of the leaders to give orders to the troops.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Fast’n'Furious is a set of fast play ancient and medieval skirmish rules. The author writes:
FAST’n'FURIOUS! Is a set of 1:1 simple, fast and fun rules for ancient and medieval skirmish scale games using 25-28mm or 1/72 plastic figures, and designed to cover roughly from 3000 BC to 1400 AD. As well as classic field battles these rules also allow for opposed landing actions and ancient siege operations, as even in ancient times many actions included landings and were directed to assault a fortified site! The emphasis is on fast, simple and enjoyable basic mechanics, suitable for games with many players, but which produce accurate results in harmony with actual historical tactics.
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Ancients Foes is a set of free wargames rules for playing short skirmish games with 15mm figures.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Age of Heroes is a high quality free downloadable card game from Legend Games. Here’s their blurb:
Build the Pyramids…conquer China…or rule the Roman Empire!
In Age of Heroes, it’s up to you. Age of Heroes puts you in charge of one of the great tribes of antiquity, in a struggle to become the great empire that dominates the ancient age. Play as the Romans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Babylonians or the Celts. Build cities and roads, trade precious commodities with your neighbors, or invade them with your mighty armies! There is more than one way to become the Empire of the Ages.
Age of Heroes is a card game for 2-6 players. It is simple in design so that children can master and enjoy it, while being sophisticated and challenging enough to hold the interest of adults. It’s an ideal family game - fun, educational, fast-paced - and fun for Mom and Dad to play! A complete game of Age of Heroes normally takes about an hour to play - perfect for family game night or as a break for kids from schoolwork.
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Paul Galley offers “You’ll Have Someone’s Eye Out With That,” a set of skirmish rules for the ancients through renaissance periods. The combat system uses 2d6 with a base chance of 7+ to hit at combat range. I like 2d6 systems because they offer an average base chance, with the possibiilty of out-of-the-ordinary results.
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Poll #1:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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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