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12 May 2013
Blue vs Red
A rule set for land modern warfare that mainly involves MBTs, IFVs and motorized recon elements. They aim to be a simple set of rules, with minimal bookkeeping. The game is played over hex map, and each side controls 3-5 companies.
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Chosen Men - Fat
Paean - Greek City State Wars
A set of small to medium scale wargames rules for the Greek Archaic period of Hoplite warfare between 800BC and 480BC. Start your own city state army and rise in power to equal the likes of Sparta or Athens.
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01 May 2013
Mobile Suit Gundam Battle System
BioSyndrome
A tabletop horror survival wargame. The B10 virus rampages across the globe, cause and origin unknown. Government Systems break down as the violence spreads, populations begin to panic.
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Aetherverse 2nd Edition
The 2nd edition cuts the required die rolls down by at least 25%, the game is a mid-scale tabletop wargame (20-100 models). The system uses a “weighted random” activation system which keeps both players active during the course of a game turn and allows for true tactical movement such as feints and outflanking manoeuvres.
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29 April 2013
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.
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Glory In The Arena
14 April 2013
VBCW Bolt Action
10 April 2013
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.
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07 April 2013
Clobberin Time
05 April 2013
DayZ Wargame/RPG Rules
Zombie rules for skirmish games and a campaign played on a simple grid map, with each grid square representing an area fifty meters on each side. The majority of towns and rural areas can be represented by a twelve-by-twelve map.
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Paradox
31 March 2013
Liberated Hordes
Mighty Mean-Fowt Fights
Simple American Civil War rules, also using a square grid and derived from Bob Cordery's Portable Wargame.
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Struggle Against Everything And Everybody
Munera Sine Missione
Gladiatorial combat rules, using a hex grid. Simple armour and weapon categories make it easy to use your favourite figures, whilst a single bout plays to a conclusion in less than 15 minutes, making it suitable for campaign play in an evening.
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Spandau and Lewis
WW2x2 MWR
A streamlined version of Take Cover rules, simplify spotting and use a modified version of combat derived from Irregular Miniatures Mechanised Warfare Rules.
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WW2x2
Power Spike
Red Flags and Iron Crosses Tarred and Featherstoned
A set of World War II rules that combined the 'old school' rules mechanisms used by Donald Featherstone and Lionel Tarr with a hexagonal gridded tabletop.
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29 March 2013
Fast Rules For Small Ships and Big Minds
This is a fast set of simple rules for playing with toy and miniature ships of the 1870-1908 era. It is not intended as a simulation of naval tactics but just as a very simple system of rules for fun fast games.
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Billy Yank
A mini website dedicated to "Billy Yank", an ACW ruleset written in 1992 and was published at first in Vae Victis ¨n°12.This website includes a numerical version of the original publication, as well as an entirely re-written and updated version of the rules, army lists, scenarios, picture book (in French language)
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Give Them Cold Steel
The original version of these rules were written over 30 years ago for a club display refighting Gettysburg, they have been used on a few occasions since notably at the Sheffield Triples for a huge ACW game in the late 80’s, this new version is rewritten and updated.
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Pax Stellarum
One ruleset to play them all. For spaceship tabletop miniatures for any genre, TV show or miniatures the owner has. (Requires a google account to access files).
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15 March 2013
Aetherverse
Future rules for 25mm - 30mm, originally Commercial the 1st Edition has now been been released by the author whilst he prepares the 2nd Edition.
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13 March 2013
Lights In The Sky
Mercs
Warhammer 40K Pod Racing
Hot Trod and Red Hand
Bloody Borders
3 articles from Wargames Illustrated including history, tabletop rules and a campaign for the Border Reivers.
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10 March 2013
Warlord
09 March 2013
Lend Me Your Coat, Afghan
06 March 2013
Scavenge Skirmish Survive
Hexblitz
An attempt to combine some of the mechanisms used in Tim Gow's Megablitz wargames rule system with ideas gleaned from the British Army's 1956 Tactical War Game Rules so that they could be used on a hexagonally gridded tabletop.
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Writing Rules For Children
Attack State Red
Modern combat skirmish war game set in the period 1900 to the present day and near future. It is suitable for 28mm or 20mm figures
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02 March 2013
Arena of Death
Pirate Skirmish Rules
Bryans WWII Skirmish Rules
Les Trois Mosquetaires
27 February 2013
Armageddon - Rise of the Dead
A simple skirmish action miniatures game where a few characters are placed against hordes of zombies.
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Warband
Arcane Warfare
Wargames Rules for Classical Warfare
These rules are designed for playing games set in the period from c. 500 B.C. to c. 700 A.D. They use an alternate movement system and whole figure casualty removal. They are primarily designed for use with 15 and 25 millimetre figures.
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Ancients Battle Cry
26 February 2013
Limeys and Slimeys
25 February 2013
All Links Verified
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Pete Jones
Pete Jones
24 February 2013
Rules for an Ancient Wargame
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
A very simple set of rules for re-fighting the naval battles that took place on Lake Tanganyika during the First World War.
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The Portable Naval Wargame
22 February 2013
Heroes of Victoria's Empire
A set of Colonial wargames rules specifically written to reflect the importance of heroic individuals (and villains!) during the expansion of the British Empire. The rules were written with the objective that they should be fun, and should enable a battle to be fought to a conclusion in no more than two hours.
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19 February 2013
Armoured Clash
Victorian super science fiction mass armoured warfare in the world of Dystopian Wars free from Spartan Games.
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15 February 2013
Conflict WW2
Alamo
Firestorm Armada
KR16
14 February 2013
Uncharted Seas
The Four Musketeers
These were produced for a participation game several years ago. A multiplayer scenario with rules.
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Gods and Minions
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.
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27 January 2013
Like Cricket But With Guns
Legio Quaternarius
23 January 2013
Battlefield Horizon
A 1:1 miniatures skirmish game using 25/28mm figures. The rules can handle two or more players per battle. The rules to stat out figures from your collection are included, and there is a sizeable list of special abilities for troops and weapons to actually make force.
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Konflikt '47
Beta test version of a 15mm scale game of Super Science and the Occult in the final days of WWII.
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22 January 2013
Warbirds In Miniature
Rules for Aerial Combat in World War 2, includes aircraft charts in one zipped file. **new link**
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21 January 2013
War '44
WWII Simples
Rules For A Napoleonic Wargame
Originally published in the Courier, these gridded terrain rules were written by Gerard DeGre and modified by Charles and David Sweet.
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19 January 2013
Border War
Antesignani
A set of ancient rules (French language) designed to fit any kind of basing or terrain (hexed or not), and with the reduction ad minima of litigious situations as main objective. With Army Lists.
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Simple Starship Combat
Cavern Crawl
14 January 2013
Tabletop Titans
Bam! Pow! Kazowee!. These are the sounds of super heroes in action. Tabletop Titans is a game of miniature combat where players create super heroes to do battle.
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13 January 2013
Supers of the Unknown
This adds comic book super hero character options to the great lite RPG Searchers of the Unknown. All the rules you need are in these two pages.
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Microlite 20
Searchers of the Unknown
Ironclad and American Civil War Naval Rules
The Portable Wargame Ancients
Chessboard War
A game on a sheet of board 3′ x 3′ divided up into 2″ squares, the objective is to kill the enemy king and capture his base.
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Armoured Warfare Without The Complications
Daiymo
10 January 2013
Tribe Against Tribe
Miniature Rules for Maori Intertribal Wars c. AD 1600-1872; Eastern North American Indian Intertribal Wars c. AD 1400-1816; Maori-Pakeha Wars c. 1845-72; Settler-North American Indian Wars c. 1600-1860.
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Strongbow
Dogsled Racing
Dogsled racing with miniatures in 15mm or 28mm includes rules, cards, markers and Scenery templates. (Spanish)
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06 January 2013
Bushi
Intended to fight large scale battles in feudal Japan, these rules incorporate unique systems to capture the spirit as well as the historical nature of samurai warfare from the advent of military rule from the Taira to the Tokugawa. Sieges are excluded.
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American Revolution
Charlie and David Sweets American Revolution rules, published in Wargamers Newsletter no 93, December 1969.
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Three Inch Glory II
05 January 2013
Reconstructed Sweet Home Rules for Ancient Battles
31 December 2012
Regiments and Roundshot
Exoshift
30 December 2012
Battle of Seattle (Italian)
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. (Italian Translation)
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24 December 2012
Chariotmaster
Discover the thrill and exitement of the famous chariot races of the Roman empire set in a Fantasy world.
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Lillibulero
Fast-Play Wargame Rules for the period 1660-1700, these rules are shamelessly adapted from the old Wargames Holiday Centre “Marlburian Rules”.
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12 December 2012
Get Some! Future Warfare
These are play test rules. It is not about WAAC (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. For any scale miniatures.
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11 December 2012
Stand Up Fight Or A Bug Hunt
By Arrow, Bill and Sword
Fire From The Skies
04 December 2012
The Die Is Cast
30 November 2012
Wrath of the Kings
Army Dudes
Use classic green army figures to create your own action movie on a tabletop. This tactical game is for two players and takes about 30 minutes to play.
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23 November 2012
French and Indian War Skirmish
19 November 2012
In the Jungle The Mighty Jungle the Aztec Sleeps With Gold Tonight
16 November 2012
Square Hearts
Beer and Pretzel Space Marines
Down-and-dirty shoot-em-up based loosely on the Colonial Marines of the movie "Aliens", includes a number of scenarios.
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10 November 2012
