1000 BC to 1000 AD
These rules cover both Ancient and Medieval warfare on the scale of major battles. They were intended for use with 25mm figures.
1BC (One Brain-Cell) Toy Soldier Rules
Toy soldiers are also a cheap and easy introduction to wargaming for kids or adults.
A Cut Above The Rest
Rules for man-to-man combat in the age of the Japanese Samurai.
A Fistful of Honey
These rules are designed for fighting with gunslinging Bears. The figures are available from Eureka Miniatures.
Abandoned Mind Games RPG
A core rule set for RPG tabletop miniature gaming - all genres, 25-30mm, 1 to 1 scale.
Abandoned Mind Games Single Stat Rules
Simple miniatures skirmish or light RPG game mechanics.
Alien: Fuzion
A Role Playing Game using the FUZION rules created by R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games. It is not a hack / slash gunfest like other adaptations.
Apostolos
A Christian "war" game. Use your workers to start churches, help them grow, and protect them against false doctrines. Players can cooperate if they wish. 2-4 players.
Artifract
Each player controls a party of adventuring archeologists and treasure hunters trying to be the first to get some, relic, artefact, or treasure and bring it back. Scenarios include:Depths of the Earth,Mummy Tomb,Lost Continent of Atlantis.
Asteroids
Solo Table top wargame based on the Arcade Classic. Prototype available now!
Axis and Allies: Secret Wars
This cross-system allows the GM to use Axis and Allies to track the course of the war for a Weird Wars: Blood on the Rhine T campaign.
Axle Tribes
The game of automotive combat set within a post apocalyptic world.
Axles and Alloys
Combat between model cars (ideally suited for Matchbox size models).
Babyface and Me
An intro to Two Hours Wargames rules system, this is a 1920's gangster scenario.
Basic Fantasy RPG
The Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is a rules-light game system based on the d20 SRD v3.5, but heavily rewritten with inspiration from early RPG game systems.
Battle For Armageddon
Battle for Armageddon is a strategic wargame that simulates the conflict between Orks and the Imperium for control of the Imperial hive world Armageddon.
Battle of Seattle
A mini-game inspired by the anti-WTO riots in Seattle November 30 - December 3, 1999. Maps, charts and counters can also be downloaded from the homepage.
Battle Finder
A deck of 64 cards of 4' by 6' battlefields (including real ones). Use them to generate a random battlefield or for a mini campaign.
Battleground Weird War II
Battleground Weird War II is a series of modified rules that are compatible with Easy Eight Enterprises' Battleground WWII System. The scale is in 25mm-28mm or 1/48-1/50. In this game, you will battle for survival in an alternative 1945 world.
Battlestorm
Battlestorm Miniatures Combat system, part of the Fables Roleplaying System. This is a basic system - a full system can be purchased.
Beneath the Waves
A simple fast played board game where you battle steampunk submarines against each other.
Berthier Campaign Manager
Software to manage miniature wargames campaigns. Berthier allows two campaigners, without an umpire, to run simple strategic campaigns leading to tabletop battles.
BF Evo - Rise of the Zombies
A zombie variant for Mongoose's Battlefield Evolution. Join the group and find the rules in the files section.
Big Game Hunt
A simple and entertaining game of dinosaur hunting! Take the role of a bold Hunter and go stalking the greatest game to have ever stalked the Earth. Simple enough for kids, entertaining enough for everyone!
Blight of the Living Dead
Blight of the living dead is a set of miniature rules for a Fantasy Zombie Slaughter Fest, including figure counters, character sheets, and full rules.
Blood Rules: Aussie Rules Blood Bowl
These rules allow players with Games Workshop's Blood Bowl game to play Australian Rules-style fantasy football game, using the same game equipment and miniatures.
Bosconian D
A solo dice boardgame based on the arcade game Bosconian by Namco.
Brains: The Hunger
The game is designed to simulate skirmish combat between a group of college students (or high school football players, or whatever) who are partying in a zombie infested field (or woods, or cemetery) and the zombies that are infesting them.
Brick Quest
BrickQuest is a game of small-scale fantasy combat similar to HeroQuest, Warhammer Quest, or MageKnight Dungeons. It requires at least two players to play and can be played easily by four to six players.
BrickMech
BrickMech is a d6-based game where Mechs built of LEGO© bricks vie for ultimate control of the battlefield. Constructed in a unique modular system.
Brik Wars
BrikWars is an inventive set of wargaming rules for use with Lego. It supports anachronistic battles between differing tech levels, so you can play fantasy battles with, say, cavemen and cowboys versus pirates and construction workers.
Can My Soldier Shoot Yours, Daddy?
Wargames Rules for Toddlers.
Cars: The Game
Perhaps the number three kids' game of all time (after Cops and Robbers and Cowboys & Indians), Cars! is a rules-light, (root) beer-and-pretzels game for two or more players.
Civil Disorder
Wargame Rules for Rioting in City Streets. Designed for table-top play with 25mm models.
Contagion
In the shadows, a War rages between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Will you choose a side? Download the core rules, containing everything you need to play Contagion. Utilizes the Open Gaming License, and the 3.5 revision!
Crushing
1970 cars mayhem in both English and French. Join the Yahoo Group and find the rules in the files section.
Cyber Clash
Cyber Clash takes place in a virtual world of computer generated tank combat. A multi-player game of up to six people, you must gain upgrades and ammo to destroy your opponents and dominate the Game Grid.
d100
A rules-light, semi-generic (biased towards modern horror/fantasy) RPG rules set with a self-contained determination system. Combat is VERY bloody yet fast-paced. The design idea was to have a flexible system that fits the “System in a Can” parameters, yet was able to be developed within 24 hours.
Dark Future
The rules and all the supplements for GW's game of apocalyptic future car racing.
DBAix
A test set for a game involving Pirates, Romans and Gauls. To be used for "Asterix and Redbeard's Treasure" at COW 2007.
Dead Walk Again
A set of tabletop rules inspired by the ever-growing number of zombie movies which pitches a small group of heroes against hordes of zombies. (Version 2)
De Bellis Dinosauris 1.1 (aka Dino Wars)
A series of modifications or expansions to DBM designed to allow player to pit their human armies head to toe with the largest, most fearsome creatures ever to walk the earth, the dinosaurs.
De Bellis Toyus
DBA conversion for playing with toys.
Dice Chucker
Dice Chucker is as the name implies all about throwing the dice! Actually it is about those good old days of roleplaying, sitting around a table, laughing, having fun, and still throwing dice. A time when gaming was just a game.
Dog Soldiers
Introductory game for the Chain Reaction system. Re-fight the movie Dog Soldiers.
Dragon Duels
A fantasy game for using toy dragons to fight duels in the sky.
Duel Blade
A two-player head to head combat mechanic for table-top game play, Duel Blade pits two combatants of equivalent skill in a contest of strategy and endurance. Choice of armour and weapons helps to shape combat strategy and fighting style.
Emeute (Civil Disorder)
French translation of Civil Disorder by Jim Wallman (Wargame Rules for Rioting in City Streets. Designed for table-top play with 25mm models.)
Empires (english version)
Empire building game.
Empires (French version)
Empire building game.
Evil Stevie's Pirate Game
This is a game, involving elements of both roleplaying and tactical combat, in which grown men and women sit on the floor and push toy pirate ships around, going "Arrrr!" Use Lego (tm) or Playmobil (tm).
Fantasized Adventures
RPG rules, visit the world of Ba`Kara.
Fast Gaming System
FGS is a simple system to be used as a support for the skirmish miniature rules. The idea is quite simple: to provide a mechanism to make possible to move your figures without any ruler while keeping the special "feeling" of the 3-dimensional terrain.
Fight Dice
Rapid Action Dice Combat System. This original tabletop combat system allows you to take any Action Figures and fight pitched duels with them, using nothing but a handful of dice.
Flat Out War
Oversoul Games' universal, 25mm wargaming rules. The system is simple and is designed around the idea that each miniature has a single die from d4-d20 representing how powerful it is.
FORCE 9
A science-fiction roleplaying game set in a galaxy at war with a bug-like alien menace. The Player Characters are part of a special Space Marine unit assigned to combat the bug Hive Mind before it comsumes all of mankind. FORCE 9 takes much of its inspiration from the Alien films (especially the second), and more recently, Starship Troopers.
Forgotten Futures
A table-top role playing game . It's based on scientific romances, the predecessors of science fiction that were published in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Four Colors
A superhero rpg set in the bygone era of the 1940's, when heroes were heroic and villains were villainous.
Frag Zombies
A rule set that combines Steve Jackson Games' computer-less first-person shooter Frag with Journeyman Press' B-movie action boardgame Zombies!!!. To use these rules you will need both games.
Frictional Heroes
Join the yahoo group to get these Pulp era skirmish rules.
Front Mission 3-D
Front Mission 3-D is a set of rules written for the Wanzer action figures produced by ARTFX/Kotobukiya.
FUDGE
(Freeform Universal Do it yourself Gaming Engine).A generic roleplaying game system. It can be used with gamers of any level of experience. It is an excellent system -- highly recommended.
FUDGE: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
This is a game based on the TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
GangStars
Tongue-in-cheek play-testing version of rules for Obelisk Miniatures GangStars range of contemporary gangers and dogs.
GEM: Generic Easy Miniatures
GEM is a generic miniature wargaming "engine". This means that you can use any of the miniatures that you own. There is a point system which gives balanced battles.
Go Go Go
A figure game based on the idea of a first-person shooting computer game (in fact closely based on the excellent CounterStrike counter terrorism game).
Gods
GODS is a game for 2 to 4 Gods from 12 years. The game takes about 45 minutes. It is best played with 2 or 3.
GORE
Generic Old-school Role-playing Engine uses Open Game Content and newly presents algorithms from 80s role-playing games to produce a generic role-playing system in the tradition of old-school percentile-based games.
Green Plastic Massacre
Combat rules for plastic army men.
GRIT - Multigenre Miniatures Rules
A system of rules designed for tactical gameplay with 25 and 28 mm miniatures where each figure represents one person or creature.
Hack & Sack New Jersey
The alien Krylons invade New Jersey the Garden State fights back with accountants and biker gangs. Land, sea & space warfare. 2 players with rules and counters.
Impresa Express
Impresa Express uses a dramatic to light-heroic scale which covers the majority of situations. All aspects of the system have been scaled back in order to promote quick and easy play.
INTSA (Internation Terrorist Suppression Agency)
A skirmish-level near-future game of counter terrorist operations.
La guerre des ames (souls war)
Demon and angel fight for souls. Souls try to back on earth the table is a cross (paradise on the top - hell is down) choose your side (FRENCH).
Labyrinth Lord
Labyrinth Lord takes us back to the basics of old-school fantasy gaming by combining text and terms provided by Open Game Content (OGC) released under the OGL, and game system algorithms from simple fantasy game systems of the late 70s and early 80s.
Labyrintus
A miniature game which combines the spectacle and craft of a miniature game with the fun and ease of play of a board game.
Legends of the Ancient World
Each player controls one or more characters who go adventuring. Players mark their characters with cardboard pieces or miniatures, and use a hexagon board or modeled surface to depict an encounter area. One hexagon (hex), or one inch, equals roughly five feet.
Legends of the Untamed West
Wild West version of Legends where each player controls one or more characters who go adventuring.
Legends of Time and Space
Space version of Legends where each player controls one or more characters who go adventuring. Players mark their characters with cardboard pieces and use a hexagon board to depict an encounter area.
Legends of Old Mars
Skirmish rules for Fighting on Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom based on Games Workshop’s Legends of the Old West and Lord of the Rings games.
Little Wars
H.G. Wells original wargame rules. Download a piece of nostalga.
MACE (Martial Art Card Engine)
MACE is a game for 2 - 4 players. MACE simulates the fantastic martial arts battles common to fighting games and anime. It uses a deck of playing cards, a hex sheet and some tokens, so is easy to play and requires no book keeping.
Mecha Dice
A simple dice game that simulates combat between M.E.C.H.A. There are three factions to choose from. The Western Alliance, Soviet Imperium and ShadowTech Industries.
Melted Plastic
Fairly detailed set of rules for army men.
Mesozoic Hunter
Dinosaur Hunting and Safari rules. Join the yahoo group to get them.
MIFA Football
MIFA football is a set of playtest miniature football rules using Eureka Miniatures 25mm Football figures.
Military Memoirs
A really entertaining dinner party game about military memoirs by Graham Evans. Basically its 'consequences' with a military bent. Much hilarity will result.
Mindless Violence
A set of skirmish miniature wargaming rules to be used with any Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Pulp setting.
Mini Combat
This is a comprehensive generic gaming system designed to fight massive battles from any period or genre. You can literally use hundreds of units per side and still be home in time for dinner!
Mobsters
An amoral roleplaying and strategy game set in the Prohibition in the Roaring 20's.
Monsters!
A map game about giant dinosaurs and other monsters terrorising downtown Amsterdam. Designed for a large number of players(around 20-30) - though will work as a club project for about 6-8 players too.
Omni War
Generic and easy wargaming system designed to be played quickly, in any genre and with any scale of miniatures (or even using paper chits). It's intended for massive 1/285 scale battles in particularly.
On The Counter
The On the Counter (OtC) system is a framework for creating miniature style wargames without the miniatures, and without the tedious recordkeeping. It eliminates the need for status sheets, army rosters and hit location tables by placing everything you need directly on the counter.
Petrolhead
A game of vehicle racing. This game is only four pages and can be easily printed both sides on two pieces of card. Additions add combat and pitstops.
Polywars
In this light tactical wargame, the players pit forces of dice against each other in mortal combat. There are no miniatures; the dice themselves fight their own battles. Now they can enjoy the glory of battle and so can you!
Power brawl RPG
The RPG of superhero battles with the emphasis on POWERS! Creating a character is as simple as choosing a few powers. There are no points to spend or attributes to roll… just select some powers and start playing right away.
Pulp Action
Pulp Action is an extremely fast, simple, flexible and enjoyable set of rules that uses miniatures to simulate adventures inspired by films and TV series, B-Movies, pulp fiction, horror stories and spy tales.
Quickie Figs
Very simple Miniatures rules. Ranges, distances, and movement abstracted. No record keeping, charts, or tables. Games resolved in under 10 minutes.
Rabbidgerbal Wrestling
Super simple, short, but fun rules for professional wresting! You only need some dice and paper, wrestling figures might be fun too!
Rencounter
A set of skirmish rules for all periods.
Resident Evil Apocalypse
Rules by Somerset Wargamers to play the Resident Evil Movie.
Riot Police
Designed to incorporate skill and tactics to control a crowd.
Risus
A complete Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to provide an "RPG Lite". Ideal for a quick convention game, or any late-night beer-and-pretzels outing.
Risus Skirmish
Risus Skirmish is a tactical miniatures combat addon for "Risus the anything RPG" by S. John Ross.
Road Rage
The idea is to cover the whole scope of automobile action, from unarmed races and car chases, through running gun battles and drive-bys, to full-on automotive combat between armed vehicles.
Road Warriors
Wargames rules for battles between rival car gangs in a post apocalyptic future.
Roll Out The (Gun) Barrels
Here's a very cheap way to simulate large battles without having to deal with maps and counters and fifteen hours per turn. Obviously, it can't cover a lot of things, but if you want more detail, get a regular wargame of some sort.
Rugged Adventures
These basic rules will allow you to start gaming in the Pulp Era. A Rugged Adventure is much more then a wargame though. Players are expected to act their character and contribute to the story development.
Rules of War
Generic Rules for Combat in any scale or era. Uses hex maps with miniatures.
SCRAP
SCRAP is a set of 25mm-28mm skirmish rules that can be played with miniatures from various periods (from fantasy to sci-fi), and includes rules for designing your own troops and vehicles.
Send More Brains
Send More Brains is an attempt to capture the flavour of zombie movies in a fun, fast-playing miniatures game.
Sham Battle
One of the more entertaining books published is ShamBattle, by Harry G. Dowdall and Joseph H. Gleason, in 1929.
Sky Pirates
A game where you battle flying pirate ships against each other in the skies of the world. It is played on a hex map with ships taking up about 2 hexes.
Slayer of Vampyres
A skirmish game based upon a certain American TV series. In particular it is aimed at the first 3 seasons, before she goes to college.
SMART
Simple Miniature Adventure Rules And Tactics. These miniature rules may be used for fantasy or medieval miniature war gaming, but can easily be adapted to any genre. These rules were inspired from Little Armies by H. G. Wells and Kreigspiel.
Soldiers In Time
A Set of Battle Rules for Ambushes, Skirmishes, Encounters, Affrays, and Small Actions Conducted with Miniature Soldiers in the Land of Blet.
Space Colony Cheeses
Build a colony on another planet, and expand it into a dairy powerhouse! This game has some silly touches. 2-4 players.
Space Station ZEMO
A kick-ass board game printed in Inquest #41, September 1998, only to be lost on the board gaming community and never to be printed again.
Spaceball
Friendly Sporting Competition in The Universe.
Squadron UK (Basic)
Squadron UK is THE British Superhero Role-playing game. Originally published - to critical acclaim - under the title "Golden Heroes" the game has been out of print for almost 20 years. This is the LITE version.
Stingray, Stingray
Wargame rules for futuristic undersea combat in the fantasy world of the famous Anderson universe. For a hex-map and models.
Sumo Basho 2
Playtest version of Amazon Miniatures sumo wrestling rules.
Super Guys
Create your own 4-person team of superheroes with over 60 possible powers, then fight for the right to defend the city! 2 players.
Survival And Victory After Global Extinction (S.A.V.A.G.E.)
A post-apocalyptic role-playing game that takes place hundreds of years after the end of the world. The combat system is very detailed.
Tac Ant
A ant to ant combat simulation. This is one of my first games. Strange but very cool.
The Basic System
The Basic System was designed by gamers for gamers.
The Black Amazons In King Solomon's Lost City Of The Diamond Mines In The Elephant's Graveyard At The Source Of The Nile
Four teams of ardent explorers are racing into unknown parts of Africa in search of glory and riches beyond measure.
The Brutal Game: Blood Bowl Soccer
These rules allow players with Games Workshop's Blood Bowl game to play a soccer-style fantasy football game, using the same game equipment and miniatures.
The Hive
A game set in a world that has been taken over by mobs under the control of an alien mind. Sometime in the late 1960s, London Transport uncovered an alien spacecraft while excavating an extension at the Hobs Lane underground station. There was a lot of publicity about the discovery of Martians in London.
The Lands Kingdom Building Conquest Game Version
Starting with a little gold you start building, an army and a kingdom. Conquer other players lands, dig mines, build your own kingdom from a house to a castle or just take the castle of some fat king if you can.
The Siege of Minas Tirith
This page is devoted to miniature gaming of the epic battle of the siege of Minas Tirith, as described in Tolkien's The Return of the King. Links to the rules are at the bottom of the page.
The Universal Combat System
The Universal Combat System (UCS) is an expandable miniatures battle system. The UCS is a system of combat rules meant for any number of players in an infinite amount of settings.
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Fast play demo version of the Horror rules.
Timber Wars
This strange war game uses bits of wood as the units. Not as crazy as it sounds!
To A Pulp
Fast-playing, simple pulp-gaming rules that use free downloadable paper counters and four kinds of map sets (included). 2+ players.
ToAd (Tales of Adventure)
An online old-fashioned hi-tech universal pencil/paper/dice role playing game. Which is also known as a Model Reality Kit, or MRK for short.
Twilight World - The Game
A game designed for quick and easy miniature wargaming in a modern horror setting. These rules allow players to fight desperate battles with small groups of human survivors in low intensity battles, primarily against other players who control zombie hordes, and roving gangs of villains... and worse.
Universal Rules for Wargames
A set of basic, simplified rules which might be adopted as universal for all war game players who meet for the first time in battle. From The War Game Digest, June 1958.
Void Trek 3007 A.D.
A space opera roleplaying game for those who like two things, old fashioned SF and simple. The entire rulebook is 11 pages long and it is set up to get you playing within an hour.
WarBlocks
A simple and fun game which uses Jengar blocks and a tile floor for "playing army." Unlike most wargames, victory in WarBlocks is more dependent on physical skill than strategy and tactics.
Warbands
Warbands is a hex based miniature boardgame for the fantasy period with warbands and characters.
Warcrabs
A simple wargame designed to be played in the workplace. In the game, you take on the role of an AssHoTech worker, creating and managing one or more crabs, collecting the spoils of victory, and attempting to become the best crabfighter in the building. Website
Worms
Gaming with armed Worms from the Computer game.
Worms2
Variant of the Worms rules by Chris Duncan.
Wooden ships and Plastic Men
This game is intended to be played with toy pirate ships and and toy pirate figures. The only things that you well need other then this is a yard stick, six sided dice, and some paper and pencils.
