Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Galleon is a set of wargames rules for naval combat in the 1400s and 1500s—the Spanish Armada period.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
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, May 28, 2008
Edgehill is a free English Civil War boardgame available at Wargames Downloads.
This is an easy, introductory game on the first battle of the English Civil War, based on a system derived from the old SPI Thirty Years War system, modified with the introduction of a chit drawing leader activation procedure that makes the game different each time you play it and perfect for solitaire play. Easy to understand and fast playable (less than an hour), and full-color map (with the position of the different units printed on the map for an immediate set-up).
Contains:
11 x 17” full color map (2 - 8.5 x 11” parts)
113 full color counters.
Rules in English and Italian
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Sgt. Perry’s Heroes has a set of rules called Un Pour Tours, which adapts Warhammer Historicals Legends of the Old West for swashbuckling.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Vendel Miniatures has a set of free wargames rules for Border Reivers:
These rules are designed to allow you to play three types of game - a standard “my army against your army” wargame; a scenario game, where the forces are very unlikely to be fair; or a simply managed campaign. All are fun, but we think that the campaign system will give you the full flavour of the Anglo-Scottish Borders in the sixteenth century. Whilst the Reivers did conduct large raids for reasons other than plunder, most of the time what they wanted was livestock. Because of this the rules include a section on the control of animals, and the campaign systems emphasis is on what you can steal rather than how many men you can kill.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Barded Fury is a set of early Renaissance rules from the Ambler Gamers. You can get them from their Yahoo Group.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Charge Yr Pikes is a set of free English Civil War miniatures rules. They use a card driven turn mechanism.
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Vexilla offers Pike and Plunder, a set of rules for running an Italian Wars campaign set in the sixteenth century.
Author James Roach writes:
This is a campaign for four players.The principal combatants are FRANCE, SPAIN, VENICE and the PAPAL STATES. All other states, Milan, Florence, etc are non player states. Due to the end of the campaign, the Holy Roman Empire is not a player state. An umpire is not required.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
1450 - 1550 is a set of free wargames rules for playing miniature games set in the renaissance. The author says it’s “slightly more complicated than Tactica.”
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Reiter and Tercio is a board and card game for two players, set in the Pike and Shot period.
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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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