Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Little Corporal is a set of free wargames rules inspired by Jim Wallmans’ “Old Fritz” One Brain Cell Rules.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
The Napnuts site has a set of rules for conducting a Napoleonic Peninsular campaign. The Peninsular Campaign makes for a good campaign because of its relatively limited scope.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Two Hour Wargames has released to the public its formerly commercial set of Napoleonic Skirmish rules, Mayhem: Warring Nations. It uses their very popular “Reaction System”.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Les Champs de Bataille is a set of free wargames rules for battalion level Napoleonics.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
In the Name of Glory is a commercial set of Napoleonic Rules that now is available as a pdf download. I have a hard copy of the rules and like them very much.
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
Waterloo is a new set of Napoleonics rules, free for the downloading, from Evan Williams. The game is organized around “companies,” and statistics are for single figures.
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Full Sail is an “age of fighting sail” variant of the Full Thrust starship rules. The one plane vector movement and area damage of the Full Thrust game seems perfect for Napoleonic naval games. It also offers something else to do with those WizKids Pirates collectable ship models.
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Rudi Geudens offers a new game in his Command and Colors series of free wargames rules: Grognards and Grenadiers. These Napoleonic rules are designed for fast play using a card mechanism.
Geudens writes:
This is another set of my card driven wargame rules “COMMAND BY COLOUR”, and although still loosely inspired by the Battle Cry & Memoir ‘44 games by Richard Borg, this game no longer has a battlefield divided in 3 sections, because I took a different approach. The left-centre-right wing Battle Cry/Memoir ‘44 principle has here been replaced by colour-coding the units red, green and blue (activated by cards of the same colour) thus enabling the players to concentrate their units anywhere on the battlefield if they wish so.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
Cold Steel is a set of free wargames rules for the period 1690 to 1950 offered by Historic Enterprises. The first release offers the basic rules, plus specific addendums for the Wars of Napoleon and the War of 1812. The nice thing about the rules is that they offer a flexible scale system, with each figure representing between 5 and 60 men. This should allow you to fight a wide variety of battles with the same rules set.
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
Letters of Marque and Reprisal is a set of free wargames rules for replaying battles in the age of fighting sail. It’s meant for battles where each player would control one ship, rather than a squadron or fleet. It looks perfect for pirate battles.
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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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