2 by 2 Napoleonics
Rules for 2mm Napoleonics. Designed to be able to play a complete battle in an hour or less.
A l'Ombre des Aigles
Tactical battles in the Napoleonic wars. Units represent infantry battalions, cavalry regiments and artillery batteries. Puts the player in the division commander's shoes.
A Toda Vela
Napoleonic Naval rules Spanish language.
A Near Run Thing
Fast, Furious and Fun rules for Napoleonic wargaming. Uses ideas from several rulesets.
Admiralty
Admiralty is a set of miniature wargame rules that re-create battles from the age of the fighting sail. The game concentrates of the core features of period naval combat including sailing, cannon fire and boarding actions.
Basic Rules for the Horse & Musket Period
These Rules will provide a quick and bloody Game without too many complications.
Battle of Waterloo - Hougoumont (1815 AD)
Fast play rules for models or paper figures.
Bayonet Point
A Napoleonic skirmish rule-set, Bayonet Point. Please note that it is a work-in-progress.
Beat to Quarters
These rules are a streamlined approach to Napoleonic Naval Wargaming. They can be used for boardgame actions or miniature actions using 1: 1200 or 1:2400 scale miniatures.
Belle Alliance
This set of wargame rules for the Napoleonic period was developed through trial games during the years 1996-2000. For the battlaion level. Available in English, Danish and French.
Bravado
A set of core rules and add-ons for the Napoleonic War.
Brigades and Batteries
1:20 scale Napoleonics for 15mm size figures.
Cannonade
Set Piece Cannons, Cavalry and Infantry.
Chakoten
Battalion level rules based on simultaneous bounds. Danish Language.
Chosen Men
Napoleonic skirmish rules - One of the simplest rule systems available. Chosen Men doesn't provide a quick reference sheet as all the rules fit on to 1 side of A4 (and not in microscopic print either!).
Cold Steel
Tactical rules for the Horse and Musket period.
Column, Line and Square
There are still quite a few players of the old rules set Column, Line & Square. These rules have long been out of print. This page represents the efforts to collect the various rules sets, errata, scenarios, etc. and make them available to the gaming public once again.
Command, Control and Communications
These Rules are for simulating battles in the Napoleonic era.
Darrell's 15mm Napoleonic
Rules where one stand equals a company or squadron.
Death or Glory
These rules are designed to simulate Napoleonic Brigade/Division sized battles. The basic manoeuvre units are the infantry battalion, cavalry squadron and artillery battery. The rules are designed to be playable, without sacrificing too much realism.
Eagles over the Empire
A complete set of rules for 6mm and 15mm Napoleonic miniatures. By Steven McPeak and gamers around the World Wide Web.
Elan Deluxe
Elan Deluxe is the latest evolution of these tactical-level Napoleonic wargame rules designed for 15-25mm miniatures. Players can use any basing system and the default scale is 1:50, but players can use any ratio such as 1:20 or 1:60.
En Avant
One Brain Cell Napoleonic war low level game designed for very fast play. Designed for 25mm figures for brigade-sized forces. Play a brigade attack in about 20 minutes! Includes order cards and status markers.
Fast Play Grand Armee
Fast-Play Grande Armee (FPGA) is a complete revision of the original game, streamlined and simplified so that a handful of people can play the very largest battle scenarios to completion in a few hours with virtually no paperwork.
Fast Play Napoleonic Rules
These rules provide a fast paced game with simple rule mechanisms that allow players to concentrate on their tactics and enjoy the 'look' of their tabletop battle, rather than have their heads buried in rule tables.
Fast Play Napoleonic Rules II
These are a DBA-esque via Fire and Fury set of rules for Napoleonic wargames.
Fire and Discipline
Fire and Discipline was originally published (in 1988) to cover tactical warfare from 1740-1850. It is now in two versions, one focusing on firepower, the other on discipline.
Full Sail
A Full Thrust 2 conversion to play ship battles with Pirates of the Spanish Main Ships. Also download the Gazetteer for ship types.
Full Sail Rules
A Full Sail modification based on the above Full Sail Rules. Also download the Squadron Sheets and the Windrose to complete the game.
General Chase
A variant for Victory at Sea by Mongoose Games covering the Age of Sail.
Green Jackets
These rules are designed around playing small scale skirmish actions in 25mm on a small table top. About 10-50 figs per side is the usual size of game. The rules are written primarily for the Peninsular war of 1807-1814.
Grenadier
Miniature wargames rules for the Napoleonic wars. Tactical units are infantry battalions, cavalry regiments, and artillery batteries. Army lists for these rules are also available.
Grognards and Grenadiers
Fastplay card driven Napoleonic wargames rules in the "Command and Colour" series.
Guards du Corps
Guard du Corps is a miniature gaming system that is designed to bring as much realism as possible to the operational level of Napoleonic Wargaming.
Hex Command: Gunpowder
Boardgame ease and the beauty of miniatures, but keeping the flavour of historical command. Gunpowder rules.
Horse, Foot and Guns
Phil Barker's (WRG) beta version of Horse, Foot, Gun which is free to download and play test. The period covers 1700-1915.
Huzzah!
Tactical Napoleonic rules that make a feature of morale and leadership.
Huzzah GTx
Variant of Huzzah on Grand Tactical Scale. Based on Martian Empires. Join the yahoo group to download.
If Only We Could All Be Napoleon
Larry Reeves' rules for 15mm Napoleonic games. Units are Infantry battalions, Cavalry regiments, or Artillery Batteries. Larry adapts the best of Larry Brom's rules with "Fire and Fury" to come up with this fast-playing set. We finished a game with 30 battalions, 7 cavalry regiments and about 12 batteries in 4 hours.
In The Name Of Glory
Started life as a set of Demo rules. Can be used with any existing basing system. Join the yahoo group.
Into Glory Ride
Malburian, Napoleonic, AWI, ACW, Franco Prussian and Colonial rules. These rules can be used with any scale too.
Jack Scruby's Basic War Game Rules
These can be used for any Musket Period war game merely be extending or shortening the range of musket and artillery fire. Thus for Civil War you would extend the range for Napoleonic you would shorten it. For use with N gauge figures.
L'Ordre Mixte
This set of rules is a Napoleonic supplement to the 'Fire and Fury' set for the American Civil War. It allows players to simulate Corps and Army level combat in the Napoleonic wars. The basic unit is the Brigade, and the rules emphasise playability.
Les Champs De Batailles
Napoleonic rules by R.J. Rockerfeller for battalion level, rescued by freewargamesrules.
Letters of Marque
A light but involving naval wargame for use with Pirates of the Spanish Main. It combines a simplified version of the movement and wind rules from Wooden Ships & Iron Men, with much of the combat system from Man O' War.
Ligne de Bataille
Sequence: 20 minutes. Scale: 50 cm / 1000 m approximately. Base = 200 men or a battery. The bases have a face of 3 cm. and a variable depth (infantry: 1,5 cm cavalry: 3 cm artillery 4 cm).
March Towards the Sound of the Guns
Very fast play Napoleonics rules, "March Toward the Sound of Guns", using Games Workshop's Warmaster rules as inspiration, that allow corps sized battles to be comfortably finished within 4 hours of play.
Mayhem: Warring Nations
Covering the Napoleonic Wars, this is man to man combat at it's finest. With over twenty historical enemies, every theatre in the wars can be covered.
Napnuts Peninsular Campaign
These rules are for campaigning the French invasion of Portugal in 1810-1811, although some modifications from historical fact have been made for the sake of game balance. They are meant to be used in conjunction with Republique grand tactical rules.
NapoleoN
A rule system to simulate big battles of the napoleonic era. This is a beta set of rules.
Napoleon's War
A brigade level simulation of the battles waged in Europe during the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Uses 3 inch square bases.
Napoleonic
Battalion sized games.
Napoleonic DBA
These rules derive from the combined concepts put forward in the rules sets "De Bellis Antiquitatis" and "Chef de Battalion". It was envisioned that a player is likely to control a single Battalion within these rules (a battalion having 15 bases or more).
Napoleonic DBM
By Steve Kerr.
Napoleonic DBM(2)
By John Murphy.
Napoleonic Flames of War
A french only amendment to the WW2 period converting it for the Napoleonic Period.
Napoleonic Fury
This rule set was inspired to take the movement mechanics of the Fire & Fury ¸ rule set written by Rich Hasenauer and apply it to the Napoleonic period. Basing, scale, and some concepts are taken from the game Napoleon's Battles¸ by Avalon Hill.
Napoleonic Grand Campaigns
This is a book of rules for deploying and manoeuvring troops in the Napoleonic Wars on a campaign map and on a tabletop battlefield. Designed for 6mm. Join the yahoo group and find the rules in the files section.
Napoleonic Quick
DBA rules for napoleonics.
Napoleonic Warmaster
A playtest set of rules for Warmaster Napoleonics.
Napoleonics DBM
Napoleonics by Mike Campbell.
Napoleonics DBM(2)
By Alan Patrick.
Nelsons Wars
Naval rules for the Napoleonic wars.
Off To War
Recreate the battles of the Napoleonic wars using this easy/moderate, brigade/divisional level game, where the smallest tactical unit is a Battalion. Uses the number of figures in a unit for resolving fighting and firing and has figure removal casualties.
Old Trousers
Rules for Warfare in the Horse and Musket Era. Old Trousers is meant to be a fast playing set of battalion level rules.
One Day Napoleonic's Campaign
These rules are designed to play entire campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Based on the "Snappy Nappy" rules of Russ Lockwood as described in MWAN , they have been extensively redesigned and reworked to give the ability to fight a campaign in a single 8-10 hour day of gaming.
Pro Patria!
Pro Patria! are wargames rules for the Napoleonic wars. They are a culmination of a number of years work by a large number of people and are designed predominantly for the large number of players who have their armies designed for the old WRG 1685-1845 set of war games rules.
Quick And Dirty Napoleonic Naval Rules
Simple Naval rules for the Napoleonic Era.
Quick Napoleonics
A rules set based on Quick Tricorne for 15mm and 25mm Napoleonic Battles.
Quick Rules For Napoleonics
A one page set of skirmish rules.
Quickfire Napoleonic
Fast rules for large games, designed as a combat resolution engine for Napoleonic era wargames.
Republique
Napoleonic rules from The War Times Journal.
Resolve
A Napoleonic miniatures game by R.Bracey.
Serrez les Rangs
Battalion level rules in Spanish for the Napoleonic wars. Army lists for all the mayor and minor powers.
Shako and Musket 1803
Rules for scaled battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
Shako and Musket 1808
Rules for scaled battles of the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula.
SHAM (Steve's Horse and Musket Rules)
Simple Horse, Foot and Musket rules that can be used for ACW, Napoleonic and 19th Century Periods.
Sharpe's Skirmish
The rules for the Durham's Chosen Men 40mm demo game. This game did all the rounds in 2006 and won many awards for best demo game.
Shot and Sail
Napoleonic Period small ship actions. Originally written for a Great Lakes action during the war of 1812.
Simple Musket Era Rules
The rules are a return to the simple game, using playing cards instead of dice, a new way of resolving combat, and individual figures rather than groups of men on stands.
Simple Sails
Fastplay Naval Rules For The Age Of Sail by Alan Young.
Sound The Charge
Napoleonic version of the Old Dessauer rules.
Ted Shulz's Napoleonic Wars Rule Set
Fast play rules for 25mm figures.
The Little Corporal
One brain cell army level rules for the Napoleonic and Revolutionary Wars. Inspired by Old Fritz by Jim Wallman.
Throne of Bayonets
Napoleonic rules written by Andrew Fisher and used for the club’s 1809 Saxon campaign. The title comes from a line in a speech given by Boris Yeltsin during the famous coup of August 1991: ‘You can make a throne out of bayonets, but you cannot sit on it for long’. He wasn’t talking about Napoleon, but he might as well have been.
Tinsoldaten
Battalion level rules based on simultaneous bounds. Danish.
Tough Men With Iron Balls
These rules have been developed to allow fleet actions, involving between 12 and 30 ships in a single gaming session, rather than ship to ship actions (requires PIQUET).
Tout Soldat
This is a draft competition set of Napoleonic Rules based at the large Division to Corps level. It was originally designed for fast play 20mm to 25mm. Download the Reference Sheet.
Trafalgar
Rules for refighting Nelsons famous battle on the Tabletop.
Volley Fire
In Volleyfire there are three types of bases. There are artillery, cavalry and infantry. While artillery bases are standalone units in themselves cavalry and infantry are split up into units.
Voltigeur
Napoloenic Skirmish variant of Lord Of The Rings Strategy Game.
Warhammer Napoleonics
Conversion of Warhammer rules for the Napoleonic period.
Waterloo
Tabletop Wargaming in the Napoleonic Era. Scenarios and armies lists available too.
Why These Are Regulars
Fast Play Rules for the Battle of Chippawa (1814).
Wooden Ships and Iron Men Lite
A conversion of WS&IM for using Pirates of the Spanish Main ships. There is a set of Scenarios for use with the rules too.
WRG Wargames Rules 1750 - 1850
The 1st Edition of WRG rules for the Napoleonic Period.
