Thursday, April 28, 2005
Trireme, from Andy Watkins, is a set of free naval wargames rules. These are of the one-page variety, which means that there is much to recommend them. I also like the staggered movement system based on boat speed, which reminds me of the old Car Wars system.
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Saturday, March 19, 2005
Jim Wallman, creator of many excellent free miniature wargames rules sets has released another: Britons!
Jim writes that in Britons!, players control heroes (and, of course, heroines), who in turn have contingents of fighters under them:
These rules concentrate on the actions in a raid. Raids could involve anything from a few dozen to several hundred, and could involve considerable fighting.
Why ‘One Brain Cell’? Well, many sets of wargame rules these days are horrendously complicated, with big thick rule books to read, dozens of additional books to get (at unreasonable expense) and exceptionally complicated rule mechanisms that take ages to work out.
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Saturday, March 05, 2005
Andy Watkins has one page set of rules for games involving Roman gladiators. You can use the fine Wargames Foundry 28mm Gladiators to fill your arena.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
T. Sheil and A. Shiel offer a scanned copy of a 30-year-old rules set called 1000 BC to 1000 AD. They explain:
The set of wargame rules copied here is a mystery. I had bought the small booklet of Rules almost 30 years ago, for a price of $4.00. The cover is mustard yellow 65-pound cardstock. leather embossed, with brown print. The booklet itself has no copyright notice, information, nor any reference whatsoever to a publisher, author, printer or issuing agency. As you can see, the typesetting work was respectable. I have therefore felt it acceptable to reprint them here.
These rules cover both Ancient and Medieval warfare on the scale of major battles. They were intended for use with 25mm figures.. Adjustments would have to be made for figures larger than 30mm. The rules are a happy medium of realism and ease-of-play. They hie from the Golden Age of Historical Wargaming. I hope you find them useful.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Tom McKeand offers Ancients Battle Cry, a set of free wargames rules in pdf format. Tom writes:
The rules are basically a combination of Avalon Hill’s American Civil War game Battle Cry designed by Richard Borg and One Small Step’s ANCIENTS designed by William L. Blanks, along with ideas of my own and from fans of both of these games. Both games use a hex based terrain system for deployment and movement. Battle Cry offers a combat mechanism that does not require charts or accounting and utilizes attrition. Battle Cry also offered a command and activation system that allows for challenging and unpredictable tactics. ANCIENTS provided an outstanding unit description and some of the best scenario setups I have ever seen. By combining these, I felt I could make a game that dealt with ancient battles that was, all though abstract in nature, challenging and above all, very fun.
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Monday, December 20, 2004
A MiniatureWargaming Exclusive!!
Trevor Goodwin has written a set of simple rules for 15mm and 25mm ancients wargames called Golden Lance. Designed for small skirmish battles, they look to be a lot of fun. I just acquired some Romans, so I may try these as a skirmish during the Caesarian Civil War.
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Saturday, December 11, 2004
A simple set of rules for Roman v Celt battles can be found here.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
On the Total Model site, Ted Schulz has a set of simple and free wargames rules for gaming the wars of ancient Rome.
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Sunday, November 07, 2004
Ancient Battlefields is a set of free wargames rules "with an emphasis on Command and Control". The game is over when the opposing general flees the field.
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Thursday, October 07, 2004
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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.
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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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