Thursday, January 27, 2011
First the folk at Capitan games offered a set of free wargames rules for Napoleonics. Now they offer a hex board version of the same rules, complete with counters for those who lack miniatures.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Muskets and Marshals is a set of free wargmes rules for the Napoleonic era. The author writes:
Following the Battle of the Crossroads I have had a final tweak of my house rules Muskets & Marshals. I say ‘final’ tweak even though experience has shown me that there is actually no such thing because tinkering with rules is as much a symptom of my borderline OCD as the desire to keep re-basing my model soldiers is.
That said I am pretty happy with the rule set as they stand and I certainly had a lot of fun playing the game using them. The firing system involves throwing a lot of dice and I’ve found over the years that this always tends to make a wargame more fun than the slide rule/logarithm approach.
The rules are an amalgamation of various rule systems and ideas nicked or created over the last 40 odd years. The movement rates and ranges are straight out of the London Wargames Section Napoleonic Rules (1968). The melee system is spookily like the one from the board game Risk. Many of the other ideas were developed for a set of ACW rules my brother and myself knocked up in the 1980s. The emphasis is on fun and speed of play.
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Saturday, January 01, 2011
The Lord of the Rings Rules variants Yahoo Group has a set for Napoleonics.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
John Linney offers a set of Fast Play Napoleonic Wargames Rules. Linney writes:
These rules provide a fast paced game with simple rule mechanisms that allow players to concentrate on their tactics and enjoy the ‘look’ of their tabletop battle, rather than have their heads buried in rule
tables. Elements shoot and fight individually but move and test morale within their unit. One or two rule mechanisms have been ‘adapted’ from other rule systems (as I liked them); as they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Players will need a table approximately 6’ by 4’ laid-out with suitable terrain. At least one D6 die and a measuring device each (measuring stick or rule), and of course two opposing armies. The
measurements are for 15mm figures.
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Capitan Games offers a new supplement for the War of 1812 for its Napoleonic rules system.
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Napoleonic Fury is a set of free miniatures rules for playing the Napoleonic Wars. As the title suggests, it’s based on Fire and Fury, which also happens to be my all-time favorite set of rules.
Since it used to be on the now-defunct GeoCities, it’s also archived here.
Update 12/8/2010: added archive links
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
The Napoleonic Wargames Rules Blog presents a set of free wargames rules in a blog format. It’s actually not a bad way to present a set of “living” rules, or one constantly in development.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
From Vae Victis magazine, a DBA variant for the Napoleonic, Mexican-American, American Civil War and Franco-Prussian conflicts.
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
Belle Alliance is a set of free wargames rules for 25mm figures on a 1:20 man scale.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Capitan, a Napoleonic rules set formerly offered commercially, now is free for the downloading. Also available are the Capitan Carlist rules.
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Poll #3:
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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