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1/300 Ancient Campaign and Rules
These rules use DBM bases sizes for the troops but have written different rules to go with them as the authors didn't like "line them up and see who gets the domino flanking effect". Report Problem

300
Prepare to die! Italian language Ancient rules. Report Problem

Across The Alps
Fast play rules for the Battle of Trebbia (218 BC). Report Problem

Against The Scourge of God
Fast play rules for The Battle of Chalons (451 AD). Report Problem

Age of Heroes
Bronze Age skirmish rules. Originally published in Wargames Illustrated. Report Problem

Ancient Battlefields
Ancients Wargame with emphasis on Command & Control. Report Problem

Ancient Combat
Ancient combat relies on a system in which each action has a difficulty check. Difficulty checks are all made on six sided dice and may be modified by the difficulty of the check. Report Problem

Ancient Foes
These rules are designed for short skirmish 15mm Ancient wargames between 2 players. Feedback to Trevor Goodwin. Report Problem

Ancient Fury
Ancient through Middle Ages Rules & Army Lists. Join the Yahoo group and they are in the files section. Report Problem

Ancient Naval Wargaming Rules
Death on the Seas is my first naval wargaming rules and I do hope I don't offend any naval specialists out there who may find them a little lightweight. Report Problem

Ancient Rome Rules
25mm fast play, easy rules. Report Problem

Ancient Wargame Rules
These rules can be used from antiquity up until the late medieval period, they depart from the norm in that they have no rigid turn sequence. All references to dice are D6. Report Problem

Ancient Wargames Rules(2)
Base sizes, troop categories, and points values are the standard WRG ones in general, any issues not covered here are addressed by the WRG rules (6th edition). Report Problem

Ancients
These wargames rules are designed to recreate the battles of the ancient world on the table top. They are aimed principally at the period from 600 B.C. to 700 A.D. They are designed for use with 15, 20 or 25 mm figures. Report Problem

Ancients (2)
Developed by designer Bill Banks, Ancients is a low-complexity tactical combat system, which allows players to recreate virtually any battle from the ancient (pre-gunpowder) world. Report Problem

Ancients By Ral
The ancient battles described in these rules are fought between armed groups of men led by valiant leaders. The units are composed of "figures," six for mounted units (cavalry) and twelve for foot (infantry). Report Problem

Ancients D6
A fast playing game of Ancient combat.  Games usually last about 1 hour and require armies of 50-100 figures.  The game can be scaled up for larger engagements. Report Problem

Ancients Warfare Fast Play Rules
These rules are a logical and much requested complement to their successful Medieval Warfare Fast Play tactical miniatures wargaming system (winner of the ORIGINS award for Best New Historical Miniatures Rules for 1998). Report Problem

Ancients Warmaster
Conversion to Ancients of the Warmaster rules with lots of army lists. Report Problem

Arcane Warfare
Fast play, 20mm or 40mm deep bases, original combat system, complete terrain rules and three integrated game sizes. Report Problem

Arte Della Guerra Nel Tibet
Campaign rules for Tibetan armies . Italian Language. Report Problem

Basic Impetvs
This is the simplified version of the Impetvs rules released in 2008. Lots of army lists included. Report Problem

Battle of Granicus (334 BC)
Fast play rules for the Macedonians and Persians, includes paper miniatures. Report Problem

Battles BC
The game is designed to simulate an ancient land battle or engagement.The armies are built using a point system to ensure a reasonably even game. Report Problem

Blades of Bronze
Fast play rules for small Ancient battles, 10-25mm. Report Problem

Britons
Very simple, one brain cell rules for skirmishes between rival bands of ancient Celtic Britons. Not a Roman in sight! For 25mm figures. Report Problem

Bronze Eagles II
Wargame rules for the age of Caesar where 1 figure equals 20 troops. Report Problem

By The Gods
An ancients rule set. Report Problem

Caliburns Wrath
An Arthurian Wargame. Caliburns Wrath is a 25mm scale war-game created to represent intense clashes between small bands of footsoldiers. Report Problem

Caveman Quest
A weird modification of the red poppy white feather rules set in a prehistoric setting with various hominid races and animals. You have to join the yahoo group to download the rules. Report Problem

Century
Designed for skirmishes or minor battles between century sized units of the classical era. It was originally intended for the period 400 BC to about about 150 BC but could probably be used from about 680 BC to to about 300 AD. Report Problem

Champs de Bataille
Ancient battle system based on DBM and adapted to be played on a hexagonal board. (Translation from Vae Victis magazine). Report Problem

Charge!
The design ethos behind the creation of this game is to provide easy to use rules for fighting large battles that don’t a whole weekend to play through. Report Problem

Chariot Master
The authors a fan of the chariot races of ancient Rome and a fan of Warmaster and especially the Warmaster miniatures, so he wrote some chariot racing rules for Warmaster chariots. Report Problem

Civitates Bellatorum
An adaptation of Comitatus and Legio VI covering the entire era of ‘classical’ antiquity (500 BC-AD 200). Report Problem

Corvus
A fast play naval game set during the Punic Wars. It was written to use with 1:650 ships. It can be used with 1:1200 scale ships with very little modification. Report Problem

DBA
The first edition of DE BELLIS ANTIQUITATIS (usually known as DBA). The title (inspired by Caesar's De Bello Gallico) may be variously translated as "Concerning Ancient Wars" or "About the wars of the Ancients" or other similar phrases. The copy of first edition DBA included here is well-worn copy with notes and amendments written in it, but it gives a good idea of this whole group of rules. Report Problem

DBAix
A test set for a game involving Pirates, Romans and Gauls which was used for Sue's game "Asterix and Redbeard's Treasure" at COW 2007. Report Problem

DBSA Fast Play Rules
To produce the simplest set of wargames rules that retain the feel and generalship requirements of ancient battle in a game lasting 15 to 30 minutes. Report Problem

De Bellis Armatis
Simple rules for ancient warfare. Report Problem

De Bellis Velitum
This is a skirmish game for two small forces, each consisting of 1 to 4 sub-units, each in turn of 4 to 12 singly based 25mm figures, totalling up to 24 army points (AP) and controlled by a single player. By Phil Barker. Report Problem

Death On The Seas
A fast play set of rules that can be used with just about any scale of ancient ships and are based on a premise of one model equals one ship. Report Problem

Dice For Honor
A set of rules for the ancients period, set up for the "Teuber/Stribling" 20mm armies of Assyria and Egypt. Report Problem

Dirty Ancients
Simple play ancient rules. Report Problem

Don't Mess With Hannibal
Fast play rules for the Battle of Cannae (216 BC). Report Problem

Fast and Furious
Is a set of 1:1 simple, fast and fun rules for ancient and medieval skirmish scale games using 25-28mm or 1/72 plastic figures, and designed to cover roughly from 3000 BC to 1400 AD. Report Problem

Field Of Honour
This is a simple two player card game that is an abstract depiction of two ancient armies facing each other on the battlefield. It can either be played as a simple two player card game, or as a sub-game to a more complex wargame. Report Problem

Fightin' for the Pharaoh
Fast Play Rules for the Battle of Kadesh (1300 BC). Report Problem

Fleet of Battles
Ancient Galley rules, you will need a copy of Piquet or a working knowledge of Fields of Battles. Report Problem

For The Pharoahs
Wargames rules for the Bronze and Chariots Age. Report Problem

Free Move - Timed Move
It should be understood that these rules as here outlined, are intended for use in Unit War Games. All model soldiers are mounted on moving trays, and are not moved as individual soldiers. Report Problem

Gang Warfare in the Age of Bronze
A game system which employs miniature replicas of heroes and villains of cultural lore. Rules long gone from the web this is an archive. Report Problem

Gladiatorial Combat - "Munera Sine Missione"
These are a set of rules for gladiatorial combat in the arenas of Rome, adapted and expanded from a set by Gary Comardo. Report Problem

Glory In The Arena
54mm Gladiator Miniatures rules from Outland Games. Report Problem

Greek-Persian War Battle Rules
Based on 'Quick Play Greeks v Persians Rules' by Harry Pearson in Battlegames issue 1, March/April 2006. Report Problem

Hex Command: Ancient
Boardgame ease and the beauty of miniatures, but keeping the flavour of historical command. Ancient rules. Report Problem

Hoplomachia
A set of rules for the Greek Hoplites. Includes a Campaign system too. Report Problem

Hoplon
The HOPLON rule system was designed to many of the simplifications and accounting-free mechanisms of DBM, while re-introducing those aspects of ancient warfare that have been lost through the pursuit of championship competitiveness. Report Problem

Hoplon 3
Latest version of Hoplon that were commercial but now free. Report Problem

Im Mort Veritas
These are a set of fairly simple and somewhat light-hearted wargame rules for the Ancient period, which are post-Biblical to circa 1000 AD. Report Problem

Last Stand - The First Battle of Thermopylae
480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Report Problem

Legio VI
Based on a simplified version of the Comitatus mechanisms, Legio VI is designed for fast playing big battles using 6mm figures. Report Problem

Legion and Empire
Rules for the Roman era from the Punic Wars (264 BC) to the fall of the Western Empire (476 AD).Join the Yahoo group and rules are in the file section. Report Problem

Life By The Blade
A simple set of Ancient fighting rules. Report Problem

Man o Man
Diceless wargames rules up to 1000 AD. Report Problem

Mare Nostrum
Italian language Ancient-Renaissance Naval Wargame Rule. Report Problem

Mayhem: Warrior Kings
Man to man combat in ancient and medieval times from Two Hour Wargames. Report Problem

Metalsmashing
Quick and simple rules for the Ancients and Medieval period. Report Problem

Morschauser's Ancient War Game
Reprint from winter 1967 issue of Miniature Parade, Joe Morschauser describes an Ancient game setup he was working on at the time he wrote his article on the Roster System. Report Problem

Napnuts Masters of the Mediterranean Ancient Campaign
Masters of the Mediterranean is a Napnuts campaign game set in the Mediterranean Sea around 220 BC. It is primarily a fast and simple campaign used to tie together a series of miniature battles. Report Problem

Nauta
NAUTA Ancient Naval Wargames Rules - 700 B.C. - 400 A.D. Report Problem

Neolithic
These rules are designed to give a fast-play, simple method of representing the extremely violent, quick skirmishes of prehistoric man. Report Problem

Obsidian Blade
An introductory set of rules for gaming the twilight of Mexico. Report Problem

Oceanus Strategoi
War galleys of Greece and Rome. Report Problem

Pax Romana
Pax Romana is designed to represent small-scale actions on the frontier of the Roman Empire in the late 4th or early 5th Century. It is intended to be simple and fun. Report Problem

PBeM Ancients
The PBeM Rules were designed to permit the playing of DBA and Hordes of the Things (HOTT) games by e-mail using Microsoft Word or Excel files to swap the moves. Report Problem

Phalanx
Fast table-top gaming with model soldiers, dice and rules covering the period 3000 BC - 1500 AD from the now defunct Alienstar website. Report Problem

Phalanx
A set of small to medium scale wargames rules for the Classical Ancient period of warfare between 800BC and 200AD. Report Problem

Pharoah Rides To War
This is a set of rules for use with the Stribling/Teuber armies of 20mm Ancients. These two armies are the Egyptian army and the Assyrian Army so those are the only troops that this rules set will address. You will need both D6 and D10 dice for this game. Report Problem

Quick Ancients
An Ancients Rules Set, originally written by Fr. Aelred Glidden and printed in MWAN. Jay Stribling has begun the process of modifying them away from their original simplicity. Report Problem

Ram or Die
Naval rules for the Battle of Salamis (480 BC). Report Problem

Ramming Speed
The Jackson Gamers have used these for 15+ years, along with home-made 15mm War Galleys to have great fun. Report Problem

Ramming Speed(2)
This is a quick play rule set for Anceint Naval Wargames. Its meant to be fun and flavourful. Report Problem

Roman War Rules
These are fairly simple rules which require only tape measures and six-sided dice. The simplicity is good if you're playing the game with your children or if you just don't like complications. Report Problem

Rules For Berts Trireme Game
Fast Play Salamis Rules. Report Problem

Schlachtfeld
A set of Ancient rules partly in English and partly in German. Report Problem

Scutum and Pilum
Designed to simulate battles of the Samnite Wars campaign game with a rules system more accurate than DBM. Report Problem

Skjaldborg
A largescale skirmish set for Ancient and Medieval wargames. Can also be used to fight bigger battles. Report Problem

Slims Rules
This set of rules was written because, the author lost his set of Slim’s Ancient & Medieval rules. The time scale is one turn equals 6 seconds, time enough to fire one arrow or sling bullet. Report Problem

Spartacus
Gladiator rules, they are inspired by the recent movie "Gladiator". Report Problem

Strategia and Tattica
Italian language ancient rules. Report Problem

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. Report Problem

The Battle of Adrianople (378 AD)
The Battle of Adrianople was a disaster for the Romans. Aside from the tremendous loss of life it showed the barbarians that the Romans were vulnerable. Report Problem

The Battle of Chaeronea
Fast play rules designed for students. Report Problem

The Battle of Marathon
In 490 BC he led an army of over 40,000 soldiers into Greece. There they faced a force of 10,000 Athenians on the plains of Marathon. Report Problem

The Battle of Zama
The Romans sent a young and ambitious general named Scipio to invade Carthage. The ploy worked, and Hannibal was summoned home to defend the city. Report Problem

The Die is Cast
Fast play rules for The Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC). Report Problem

Trireme
These are naval wargames rules for the classical wars of Greece and Rome. Report Problem

Valiant Britons
A battle game involving combat between ancient British Tribes in the pre-Roman era. Great emphasis on role playing as much as tactics. Ideally for use with 15mm figures, but any scale will do. Report Problem

Virtus
A simple set of fast-play rules for the Gallic Wars, inspired by cards games mechanisms. No rulers needed, no charts, and no Pips but a cards driven activation system. French language only. Report Problem

WRG Ancients (1st Ed)
The original rules that spawned a number of sequels that led to the arguments between 6th Edition and 7th Edition before changing to DBM. Report Problem

WRG Ancient Rules (2nd Ed)
Second Edition of the famous WRG Ancient rules. Report Problem

WRG Ancient Rules (3rd Ed)
Published in September 1971 and lasted for two years. During that time at least one set of amendments was produced and they have been inserted into the copy scanned and included here. Report Problem

WRG Ancient Rules (4th Ed)
Published in August 1973 and continued in use for the next two years. Report Problem

WRG Ancient Rules (5th Ed)
Published in January 1976 and amendments were produced in November 1976 and November 1977. Report Problem