Monday, January 02, 2012
Wolsung Steampunk Skirmish Rules
Rules Steampunk
Wolsung is a nice looking set of free wargames rules for skirmishes in a steapunk setting.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Cloudships of Mars
Rules Steampunk
Space 1889 is my favorite role playing game of all time. When it was first released by GDW, I bought everything they produced for the games—and two of some. One of the things I really liked about Space 1889 is that it cut across gaming classes: there was the base RPG, miniatures and mini rules, a board game and even a computer game. One of their products was a miniatures game called “Cloudships of Mars” that featured flying steam and sail above the canals of mars. Its sadly now out of print.
However, the South London Warlords have a Cloudships of Mars page, with some rules for a game.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Malifaux Rules
Rules Fantasy, Rules Horror, Rules Steampunk
Here’s a pdf with the rules for Malifaux, the weird steampunk setting game.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Malifaux Rules Review
Rules Steampunk
Anatoli’s Game Room has a good review of the Malifaux rules set.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Above The Seven Seas Steampunk Rules
Rules Steampunk
Above the Seven Seas is a Steampunk inspired set of miniatures rules. Author Henrik Granlid writes:
Longing for a way to recreate the massive air battles of the fantastic anime Last Exile and also dreaming myself away to the wonderful imagery of old naval battles, I just felt I had to try and recreate these battles between massive ships high up in the skies wilst still trying to keep some form of realism. After looking into several things, i finally came to the conclusion that trying to have as few dice as possible might well be the best option, the tactical ability of the player coupled still with a few handfulls of luck would work a lot better than someone rolling all ones when unleashing a broadside and missing the huge ship next to his own. What I hope to bring players is a new view of tactical miniature gaming and I hope you people will make your own models to play this game.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Grind Steampunk Football Rules
Rules Steampunk
The rules for Privateer Press’ Grind game of steampunk football are available as a free pdf.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky Victorian Science Fiction Rules
Rules Steampunk
When Dreadnaughts Ruled The Sky is a nicely done set of rules for Victorian Airships. Unfortunately, you have to join the Military Army Campaigns Yahoo Groups to get it.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Steamwork Arena Miniatures Based Fighting Game
Rules Steampunk
Invisible City Productions has a new miniatures game called Steampunk Arena.
Jonathan L. writes:
Steamwork Arena is a quick playing, diceless, customizable, miniature-based fighting game. You’re the pilot of a steamwork mecha in an arena battle with one or more other mecha. During play, you move your mecha miniature around an un-gridded playing area, attacking and being attacked by your opponent(s).
Here’s the big gimmick: You have a special card for your mecha. This card is called a template. Your template keeps track of your health. It also keeps track of which one of 5 modes you’re in. Your mode dictates your attack, defense, energy, movement, and the range of your ranged attacks. During play, you’ll shift from mode to mode as your needs change. As you take damage, modes will shut downť and become unavailable to you. You win the game by dealing enough damage to your opponent(s) to shut down all of their modes.
Here’s the small gimmick: There are no dice. During play, you’ll spend energy to attack and defend. To do this, you hide energy tokens in your hands and your opponent gets to pick a hand. The number of tokens in the selected hand determines how strong your attack or defense is. All tokens in both hands get spent. This “pick-a-hand” mechanic encourages bluffing that’s atypical for miniature games like this.
Steamwork Arena is a game for two to four players, although you could probably play it with more. Steamwork Arena uses miniatures, a large flat surface, small tokens, custom templates, and paper clips.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Colonel’s Boiler Plated Brandy Snifter Rules
Rules 19th C, Rules Sci Fi, Rules Steampunk
The Colonel’s Boiler Plated Brandy Snifter is a set of free add-on rules for the (also free) Chain Reaction 2.0 rules. The rules are for gaming Victorian Science Fiction skirmishes.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder
Rules Design, Rules 18th C, Rules 19th C, Rules ACW, Rules Ancients, Rules Colonial, Rules Early 20th C, Rules Fantasy, Rules Medieval, Rules Modern, Rules Napoleonics, Rules Naval, Rules Pike & Shot, Rules Sci Fi, Rules Universal, Rules Steampunk, Rules WWI, Rules WWII, Accessories
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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