Friday, December 15, 2006
Ancient Foes 15mm Skirmish Rules
Rules Ancients
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 Free Card Game
Free Board Games, Rules Ancients
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
You’ll Have Someone’s Eye Out With That Ancients Skirmish Rules
Rules Ancients, Rules Medieval, Rules Pike & Shot
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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Friday, August 11, 2006
Mazes and Minotaurs Role Playing Game
Free RPGs, Rules Ancients
Mazes and Minotaurs is a free role playing game of heroic adventure in ancient Greece. The current version is an update of a game published in 1972, so its definitely “old school”.
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Sunday, June 11, 2006
Roar of the Crowd Gladiator Rules
Rules Ancients, Rules Fantasy, Rules Sci Fi
Roar of the Crowd is a set of free rules for playing science fiction, fantasy or historical gladiator games.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Mesopotamia Birth of Civilization Game
Ancients, Free Board Games, Rules Ancients
Mesopotamia Birth of Civilization is a free, downloadable board game by Garry Stevens designed to teach the history of the Fertile Crescent. Garry writes:
Mesopotamia follows the rise and fall of twenty nations from the Sumerians to the Persians over two thousand years of history. It purloins freely from those wonderful classic games Civilisation, History of the World, and Ancient Conquests, to which I owe a huge debt. The game is more historical than Civilisation, but less world-encompassing than History of the World (HOTW). The basic system is that of History of the World, but with one very significant difference.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder
Rules Design, Rules 18th C, Rules 19th C, Rules ACW, Rules Ancients, Rules Colonial, Rules Early 20th C, Rules Fantasy, Rules Medieval, Rules Modern, Rules Napoleonics, Rules Naval, Rules Pike & Shot, Rules Sci Fi, Rules Universal, Rules Steampunk, Rules WWI, Rules WWII, Accessories
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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Friday, March 24, 2006
Battle of Salamis Rules
Rules Ancients
Matt Fritz offers a simple set of rules for recreating the 450 BC naval battle of Salamis between the Greeks and the Persians. The site even has links to paper models that you can use to play the game.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
Across the Alps: The Battle of Trebbia Rules
Paper Figs Terrain, Rules Ancients
Matt Fritz offers a set of free miniatures rules called Across the Alps. The rules are for recreating the Battle of Trebbia from 218 BC, when Hannibal crossed the Alps to face the Roman Army at the river Trebbia. The rules are easy to play, being designed for Matt’s students. There also is a link there to paper figures.
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Friday, February 24, 2006
Valiant Britons
Rules Ancients
Valiant Britons is Jim Wallman’s contribution to wargaming ancient british tribes in the pre Roman era. Its designed for 15mm figures, but he says that any scale will do. Like all of Wallman’s rules sets, it’s well done and makes me want to start painting the period immediately.
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