Thursday, December 18, 2008
100 Years War Crecy Rules
Rules Medieval
Eric Wood offers a set of free wargames rules for playing the 100 Years War battle of Crecy
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Minimal Melee Combat
Rules Ancients, Rules Medieval
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, December 03, 2008
Standards of Valour
Rules Medieval
Standards of Valour is a variant of Stargrunt designed for playing miniature wargames in the Dark Ages
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Tourney Jousting Rules
Rules Medieval
Tourney is a set of Jousting rules from the Lincoln Miniature Wargame Society.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
A Glorious Victory
Rules Medieval, Rules Pike & Shot
The Armchair General writes:
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GLORIOUS VICTORY (AGV) is a reasonably quick and easy set of wargames rules designed for the period of warfare from around the early 15th century through to the latter part of the 16th century, thus covering the War of the Roses and most of the Renaissance period.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Impetus Basic Rules Update
Rules Ancients, Rules Medieval
There’s been an update for the free basic rules for Impetus, a set of ancient and medieval wargames rules.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Knighthood and The Middle Ages Free Wargames Rules
Rules Medieval
Knighthood and The Middle Ages is a set of free wargames rules by Chris Parker, author of Day of Battle. Chris writes:
Welcome fellow knights. This is the third edition of Knighthood that I published in 1992. It was the final version that used six sided dice. It also was the last version of what I humorously referred to as the “bucket of dice” game. I present it here as a complete game. It had no army lists when it was printed. At the time these rules were published WRG 6th edition as the hot game. I found the army lists produced at that time by WRG worked well with the point lists provided in KATMA III. I do not plan on supporting this set but I offer them as in inexpensive set of easy rules. You can obviously see the progression to my current game Day of Battle II.
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
Basic Impetus
Rules Ancients, Rules Medieval
Dadi & Piombo offer Basic Impetus, a free version of their Impetus rules for ancient and medieval wargames.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
My Kingdom For Horse Free Medieval Rules
Rules Medieval
Ian Hopping offers My Kingdom For A Horse, a set of free wargames skirmish rules for the dark ages and medieval periods.
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Friday, November 23, 2007
Free Company 100 Years War Rules
Rules Medieval
Andy Clipsom offers a set of rules called Free Company, which is for games set in the longbow era. From the author’s introduction:
I started work on these rules to fulfil some personal gaming criteria. I wanted rules for a small battle but not a skirmish. The command level would therefore be around the unit, rather than the division. I imagine medieval unit commanders using their initiative and experience within an overall game plan, so the player is being a succession of unit commanders with limited initiative, plus the big cheese, who has slightly more control over those around him.
My figures are 25-28mm, but I have only a small space to game, so distances reflect this. I also like multiple bases for ease of movement, so I have returned to simple casualty rosters (though you could use markers). The system should work easily enough for multiple bases in other scales, as it is based on a nominal strength of the base rather than an actual headcount of figures.
The game assumes a game scenario agreed in advance, rather than an equal points, random set up game. It is assumed things not covered in the rules (like scouting, ambushes, destruction of property) will be covered in the scenario.
Players won’t find a lot of innovative new mechanisms and while some influences are obvious (e.g. the use of DBA PIP-style mechanism to limit the number of actions a player can take), others are lost in the mists of time.
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