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9 Kingdoms
The rules are set in the Kingdom of Life, the Kingdom that is most like our own world. It has all sorts of terrain and, unlike many of the other Kingdoms, it has a day and a night. Its inhabitants are those represented by the figures in the 9 Kingdoms core set and so many more. Create and customize your own figures with their own abilities and skills.

100 Kingdoms

As WarLord of one of these kingdoms you must unite the land by conquering your enemies and destroying the other WarLords.

Aces of the Apocalypse
28mm skirmish rules set in a post apocalyptic setting.

AD Wars

A set of 6mm SF rules using the Warhammer Ancient Battles rules. You have to join the yahoo and visit the files section.

Alan's Landship Rules

The behemoth landships of H.G.Wells imagination coal fires stoked and steam at full pressure face off against each other and squads of men. Use plastic army men and tanks or 25mm figs that you have.

Anoe Versus
French language fantasy skirmish rules. 

Arena of Death
Fantasy gladiatorial combat for 28mm Scale figures.

ARES:Miniatures Wargaming System

A complete skirmish-level fantasy game. But it is also much more. The flexibility of the system allows players to use any wargaming miniatures in their collection.

Battle Dice
Dice are used to represent elements of Fantasy armies.

Battle Chain (Descent)

Battle Chain Descent Supplement with Core Rules for Fantasy Flights Descent Journey into Darkness boardgame.

Battle Chain (Doom)

Battle Chain Doom Supplement with Core Rules for the Doom franchise game. Now with Free scenario.

Battle Chain (Heroscape)

Battle Chain Heroscape Supplement with Core Rules for MB Games Heroscape.

Battle Chain (Lord Of The Rings)
Battle Chain Middle Earth Supplement with Core Rules added for convenience concentrate on J.R.R.Tolkien`s Lord of the Rings, and was conceived after reading and being disappointed with Games Workshop`s LOTR Strategy Battle system.

Battlechest

Mass combat Fantasy rules. File includes several races and record sheet.

Battlecry Fantasy

25 to 28mm mass combat fantasy rules for use with any figures which have been in development since 1990.

Battle for 2mm Earth
A dynamic rules system suitable for any period of history up until the 20th century, using 2mm miniatures. 

Blood 'n' Grit

Fast Play Fantasy Rules by Craig Cartmell.

Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl is the game in which Orcs, Elves, Trolls, Humans and many other fantastical creatures participate in the sport of football. 

Border War
Skirmish version of the Fields of War rules.

Brimstone

The minis game for people going to Hell. Using this system, you shall wage war for control of the Nine Circles of Hell, commanding all the forces of nefariousness and villainy that you can possibly imagine.

Cavern Crawl
Fantasy gaming rules for Dungeon Exploration.

Chariotmaster
Discover the thrill and exitement of the famous chariot races of the Roman empire set in a Fantasy world. 

Chronicles of Blood
Solo Wargames. The world of Arax is a world filled with blood and battle, magic and monsters, slaughter and sorcery. The Core Rules are free, and premium expansions are available for $1 each.

Chronicles Tabletop Role Playing Game
Chronicles is a set of open-source fantasy skirmish role playing rules. If you like this game, you are welcome to help us make it even better! Come and take a look!

Cinema Tactics
A game of sword fighting, bow shooting, and spell casting in an action-packed fantasy world. Gameplay models every blow and desperate block with damage effects that lend encounters an especially cinematic feel. All you need to play is a deck of playing cards and couple of six-sided dice. The Living Rulebook, maps, Heroes and Monsters, and scenarios are all available for free.

Clash of Swords

A miniatures based fantasy game. It is unlike other miniature based games because it is not specifically based in combat and it definitely does not require armies.

Combat Squads
Skirmish house rules for Warhammer 40K 5th Edition.

Coreheim
Updated Rulebook for Games Workshop's Mordheim written by fans, fixes alot of problems with the original rules.

Crom
Fantasy rules that enables players to recreate the stories of Robert E. Howard and similar authors of heroic fantasy.

Crouching Hero, Hidden Daggers
A fantasy skirmish based on the more fantastical type of chinese martial arts movie. With characters inspired by the Water Margin. Simple rules, with action cards. 

Dawn of the Dead
The entire Dawn of the Dead board game can be downloaded from this site.

DBTM (Catalan version)

This is the Catalan version of the french's rules DBTM about wars in the Tolkien middle earth's world.

Deathball

Deathball is a popular gladiatorial pit-fighting variant that is played mainly in the Kingdom of Morica, ruled by Dark Duke Henry the Red, also known by his official title of Duke Scaldis II.

De Bellus Middle Earth

DBM adaptation for fighting mass battles in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

Destroy All Monsters

Fight monsters in this skirmish type game. (Rules rescued by Freewargamesrules).

Dragonrune: Arena of Death

A Gladiatorial style miniatures combat game designed for two or more players. The rules also contain: Champion Cards, Hexgrid Arena floor, Rune Coin Tokens.

Du sel pour les succubes

Succubes attack a village defended by a paladin and paysans. They have special seduction powers there are only two against the folk.Published in the french mag Ravage 2, Decembre-Janvier 2001 (FRENCH).

DungeonCrawl

What we have here is a set of rules designed to allow for quick play, tongue in cheek, dungeon adventuring. These rules are not intended as an overly detailed, exhaustive study in the complexities of subterranean armoured combat.

Dungeon Delvers

A Dungeon exploration game in the style of the original dungeon game.

Dungeoneer

These are a set of very simple dungeon-bashing rules for youngsters and the young at heart. It is classic kick-in-the-door, kill the monsters and steal their treasure stuff.

Dungeon Squad: Adventures in the 41st Millennium

Adventures in the 41st Millennium puts you behind the gun in battle against hordes of enemies, or in a planet doomed by anarchy and run by gangs. This game runs on the original Dungeon Squad System and brings the Warhammer 40,000 Universe to life as your party tries to survive the mass combat of the 41st Millennium.

Dungeons Dark and Dangerous

Dungeons Dark & Dangerous is a rules light miniature wargame involving a typical fantasy dungeon crawl.

Dungeons and Dragons The Miniatures Game

The D&D Miniatures game is being revised to align the rules with changes that are happening in Fourth Edition D&D. This is the complete new rulebook.

Dungeon World

10mm Fantasy dungeon skirmish rules, 2nd Edition.

Elfball

In Elfball you do just that! Assemble a team of up to 12 players selected from a myriad of fantasy races and pit them against your friends in a fantasy rugby styled football game!

Elf Fire I've Stood on a Dwarf
Fantasy rules for 25/28mm figures. You must join the site to download the rules.

Emlia

A tabletop wargame system, similar in nature to  Warhammer ,  DBA  or  Warmachine . Unlike these systems, however, Emlia is suitable for many different scales, genres, and settings. It is flexible, free, and in constant development.

Epic Armageddon

Epic is the game of mass combat set in the nightmare future of the 41st millennium. These are not simply the battles of man against man. Epic battles feature immense armies of infantry, legions of tanks and giant war engines such as the bipedal Titans and super-heavy tanks armed with weapons normally seen on starships.

Epic Heroes: Skirmish Gaming in the Realms of Fantasy
Free supplement for Brink of Battle: Skirmish Gaming Through the Ages.

Extra Terrae Crepusculum
This game allows players to combine miniatures from different manufacturers to produce skirmish parties to go out and kick some ass.

Fantasized Adventures

Set of fantasy rules designed to be played with miniatures.Even has some nice town maps.

Fantasy Combat Zone

A fantasy variant of the popular Combat Zone rules.

Fantasy Fliers

Miniatures rules for small unit aerial combat.

Fantasy Skirmish

A simple fantasy skirmish system, mainly for monster bashing scenarios.

Fantasy Warriors
Game of large-scale fantasy warfare . Emphasis is on units and command control, but extraordinary individuals and horrendous monsters can make a difference.

Feasting Ravens

Dark Ages and Heroic Fantasy Skirmish Gaming Using 28mm Scale Miniatures.

Fields of War
Fantasy turn based strategy game that uses the innovative command system in place of more traditional turn structures.

Fire At Will, Men

These 6mm generic fantasy rules are based on Follow Me Men below and they are designed for use with 6mm strips of toy soldiers. Army List

Follow Me Men

One Brain Cell Heroic Fantasy Wargame Rules. Designed for the simple, these are fast moving rules involving knights, orcs and mages and all that.

For The Masses

For The Masses is a complete fantasy mass-combat wargame system. Several sample army lists are included in the book but the real strength of For the Masses is the unit creation system.

Franklins Sea

An 18th Century Fantasy naval game... and a game that can be played on your refrigerator.

FUBAR The War of the Ring 2nd Edition
Supplement for FUBAR Medieval that allows you to bring your warbands into battle across the latter years of Middle Earth in the mammoth two-page supplement.

Garden Gnome Wars

It is played with actual 1 foot tall garden gnomes like those you have in your yard right now.

Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies

Playtest fantasy rules for swords and sorcery skirmish.

Get Some, Fantasy Warfare
These are playtest rules. They are not about Winning at all Costs but about designing an army that fits your collection and play style as well as the background for the Universe you are playing in. 

Glave

Fantasy battle rules that can be used with any style of miniature.

Gobbledy Gook

Where fantastical, whimsical, maniacal creatures lurk in the dark corners of the world, waiting for a chance to cause mischief and mayhem. 

Gods and Minions Quick Start Rules
Gods & Minions is a card based tactical wargame, so one game represents one battle. You and your opponent each represent generals who command their troops. The troops are displayed using cards.

Gorka Morka

Rival ork gangs fight in combat from Games Workshop.

GROMM Fantasy Skirmish
Set in a world torn apart by war and destruction. Included in this core rulebook, are the rules of play, an inside look at the background of GROMM and units available to players from four mighty factions. Aside from these rules, you can find faction books for every faction in GROMM.

GROMM: Fantasy Skirmish Basic Edition MKII, Rise of the Pantera and the Hon
This supplement to the basic edition of GROMM: Fantasy Skirmish features two new factions; the Pantera and the Hon. Also included in this new supplement, is a new scenario.

Heroes
Heroes in the Imperium is intended to be played with maximum a dozen characters p/side and with a very specific mission in mind. The scale is 28mm. It is a variation of Games Workshops Inquisitor Game.

Highest Ground

A science-fantasy board wargame.

Hordes & Heroes Medieval Fantasy

Epic Medieval Fantasy Battles the rules are simple and easy to learn, yet sophisticated enough to allow 'realistic' battles to be fought. Requires registration to download.

Hordes of the Things

A set for fantasy wargaming in which magic is not all-powerful but merely one part of the action. The army lists in these rules were based "mainsteam fantasy authors and current fantasy wargaming practice, myths, legends and traditional epics, and on fictional equivalents of historical armies".

Imperialis

Imperialis is a 28mm wargames system based on a series of books the author intends to write.

In The Emperor's Name

A skirmish game in the Warhammer 40K universe where each player plays a Hero or Villain with his or her Retinue of five to ten figures (2nd Edition).

Inquisitor

In Inquisitor players take the part of the Imperium's most powerful and secretive servants. Using 54mm scale figures, Inquisitor is a narrative wargame, based around Humanity's unending battle with the alien, the daemon and the witch.  

Juggerball

Design Juggernaughts and fight combat with them over several races.

Killzone v2
This is a not-for-profit rules supplement for Warhammer 40,000 by Games Workshop you require the 40K rules.

Kings and Captains

Quick play Fantasy Rules.

Kings of War
Rules for mass battle miniature wargaming a game that is both easy to learn and fast to play! With few and simple rules,there is little to get in the way of the fun and slaughter.

Kraken

A Solo or Multi-Player Tabletop Game against the Terrors of the Deep. Presented here is a simple game of men against monster inspired by the interpretation of Verne's work.

Legio VIII
Two pages rules for massed battles on a small table between historical or fantasy armies.

Little Fantasy Wars
Little Fantasy Wars is a diceless fantasy miniature wargame. This game strongly rewards good strategy and skill over blind luck.

Magic Challenge

Magic Challenge is the magical battle for two or more wizards. German and Spanish versions available from Homepage.

Megazilla

Megazilla attacks Tokyo. One player is Megazilla, the other is the Japanese military trying to defend the city.

Middle Earth

A set of small to medium scale action rules based on the books and works by J.R.R. Tolkien. The rules allow for easy control of close order formations with a company of men consisting of 20 figures. A player can easily control two or three companies in a nights gaming.

Mighty Empires

For those with a twinge of nostalgia for the original Mighty Empires rules, or for those new Warhammer players who are curious what the old system was like, GW present a downloadable PDF of the entire 64-page original Mighty Empires rulebook.

Mighty Empires DBx
Notes for adapting Games Workshop Mighty Empires rules.

Mordheim

Mordheim is a game of combat that takes place during the short but intense period when scores of warbands fought hundreds of bitter skirmishes throughout the city. Games Workshop now releases the rules as a "Living Rulebook" (Large File 22mb).

Mythfire

Hex-map battle between fantasy armies, heavy on creatures from Greek mythology. This is a complete game with maps and counters. 2 players.

Naval Rules
Fantasy naval rules.

Nemesis

Rules designed for the Zenit Miniatures 33mm range.

NetherHells

Fantasy hero game being developed by Heresy Miniatures.

Nosgard Miniature Game
Free set of Fantasy rules to compliment the Nosgard miniature range.

No Quarter Fantasy Wargames

No Quarter is a generic rules system for fantasy 25mm miniatures wargames. Games can be played from small scale skirmishes to full scale battles using hundreds of figures.

Obydon 40K Rally Rules

Bike racing in the 40K universe.

One-Page-Fantasy-Skirmish

Complete Fantasy Skirmish System that prints out on one page. Includes points system, magic, magic items, campaign rules and six scenarios.

Orc's Drift

Orc's Drift is a miniatures wargame depicting battles in the Centre of the Earth.

Orc Wars
Italian language fantasy rules.

Panzerfauste

Panzerfauste Unarmoured is a stripped down free set of our popular fantasy mechanised wargames rules, Panzerfauste.

Pirates of Yendor Sea Battle Rules

Naval battle game rules for fantasy (or ancient) battle. A development of Ed Smith's 'Greek Naval Warfare' rules of 1974.

Power Spike

A diceless science fiction-fantasy game. Alpha Version.

Prince August Fantasy Rules

These rules were originally in an old (1980's) Prince August catalogue. This is a simple set of rules for fantasy wargaming.

Rayguns and Rockets

Will Flash rescue Dale or will they go down in flames aboard the Imperial Flagship. Find out in next weeks cliff hanger. Strap on your jetpack and get ready for some high flying adventure.

Relics
Players control forces as diverse as black powder musket wielding dolls to clockwork powered fighting machines to battle for the fate of the world and see their faction to victory.

Retribution at Ekthalon

Morval Earth Fantasy Rules aim for realism and are more lethal for players' characters than most others.

RuneQuest Battle System

This system is designed to allows the players to experience the "fun" of military obligations in the dark ages. It is tailored to RuneQuest, a role-playing game, and so put a heavy emphasis on player character actions, the NPCs being secondary. 

Searchers of the Unknown
A minimal way to play AD&D with these 1 page rules.

Sellsword
Fantasy Skirmish rules. Almost everything you need to play is freely available on the website, including rules, scenarios, play articles and cards. Everything, except, of course the miniatures.

Senator Arjun's Star Wars Skirmish Rules
Play Episode I through VI skirmish games.

Short Sword

Generic rules for miniatures mass combat. All is based on the relative size of the figures. Rules are free, but you must join the playtest mailing-list (for which the link is). Still in beta testing phase.

Simply Skirmish

Simply Skirmish is a skirmish system based on GZG's FMA game system and incorporates FUDGE concepts.

Skull Crusher

A fantasy skirmish wargame that has no illusions about itself. It's full rules fill a whole FOUR pages. It has no psuedo-historical backstory. It welcomes all fantasy miniatures into play, regardless of origin, base or painted condition.

Skulldred

For any scale, any miniature fantasy skirmish system, with rich strategy options, tactical interaction when its not your turn and best of all - no mental arithmetic- its designed to be playable drunk.

Smog The Thirteenth
Victorian fantasy rules.

Steel and Bone

A Fantasy Wargames scenario by Trevor Wiley.

Stomping
The fantasy miniatures battle system that "just says no" to hard to learn rules, imagination choking character classes, and "system supporting only" figures.

Strange Grogge
Fantasy Black Powder Skirmish Rules.

Supreme Warlord: Blood Lust

A set of rules designed to create massive battles using 15 mm Historical pre-1600 castings and/or Fantasy castings. The Blood Lust Series is an effort to get new players into historical and miniature gaming.

Swords and Sorcery

Fantasy miniatures war gaming rules rules for miniatures battles in a fantasy setting.

Swords and Spells

Fantasy Miniatures War Gaming Rules.

Te Wapen!
Te Wapen!" (Dutch for "To arms!") is a fantasy miniature ruleset, home-developed by a group of wargamers in Belgium, and is a variant of the Battlecry and Memoir44 gaming engine.

The Fall of Gondolin

A fan supplement for GW's Lord of the Rings game. Set back in the First Age, before the treachery of Sauron and the forging of the great Rings of Power.

The Forces of Light and of Darkness

Rules for tabletop gaming the classic works of Fantasy Battles from the now defunct Alienstar website.

The Loremaster Compendium

Fantasy rules for Hex-Terrain. Use existing figures with armies from your imagination. Now spellcards included. Download here in excel format.

The Red Arrow

A rules system which closely follows Follow Me, Men. These are 6mm One Brainer Lord of the Rings rules.

Three Plains

Largely set on the Middle Plain, on the World of 'Many' it is a Battle Strategy Turn Base Game with its own print and play figures.

ToyMallet 40 Cents

Welcome to the world of totally cheap tabletop wargaming! Why spend buckets of cash on a superior, worthwhile product when you can download this crappy cheap ass parody of Warhammer 40K.

Trash Tokyo

This is a game. Please do not attempt to battle real 300ft tall radioactive monsters in your living room! This game was inspired by many late night showings of monster movies of all kinds, but especially the ones involving guys in suits stamping around on cardboard buildings.

Twilight
A small scale skirmish game allowing players to take the role of either the Devanu or the Fubarnii in scenario driven encounters. The full rules are available from Hasslefree, which include lots more background and details.  

Uncharted Seas
Spartan Games offer their fantasy Naval rules for free.

Universal Soldier

The Universal Soldier was originally designed to be a set of historical rules for fighting miniature battles. As with all other sets of historical rules, making the leap to a fantasy system was not difficult.

War in Hell

Fantasy figure game for any figure scale, of any historical period - set around battles between unimaginable forces taking place in Hell. Not entirely serious.

Warbah

Simple conquest game. 

Warhammer 40K Pod Racing
A mini-game for pod racing in the 40k universe.

Warlord
Quick play rules for heroic skirmish fantasy battles.

Warmaster
Warmaster is a game of conflict on a grand scale, fought over an area of ground that we might imagine to be many miles square. These rules are the official online rulebook.

Warriors of Fantasy

Aimed at large scale battles using 100s of miniatures per side. These rules are still under development.

Wenchkins

Devoted to Sir Basil's "one brain cell rules" wargame of Babes with Broadswords. Rules, counters and mapboard sections are all in the "Files" section, free for the printing.

Wizards and Warlocks

Abstract units with variable stats.

Wizard Prince
A warfare/political D&D supplement.

Wrath of the Gods

A set of Greek and Roman mythology fantasy skirmish rules based upon the "Century" skirmish rules. The basic rules have been simplified. What was the fantasy rule supplement has now been incorporated into the main body of the rules.

Wrath of the Kings
Demo rules for the 32mm miniature fantasy game.

WW1FY ARSE
World War 1 fantasy rules.

Zombies vs Imperial Guard Rules

Formerly Zombie Escape. A modification for Warhammer 40K Imperial Guard Zombie. GW declined to published but have allowed the author to share.

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