Free Rules on the Net


  
Our aim is to play low cost wargame... so what is better than a set of free rules, ready to download from the net ?

Surfing I found a lot of free rules, ranging from ancient skirmish to battalion level WWII.
Here is an incomplete list, I'll try to mantain this list updated but, you know, the web is a very fast changing place !!
New links will be on top of the older links.

Last Update: 12/05/1999



  • Into Phil Yates' page:
    Operation Brevity (Corps/Divisional level WWII rules),
    Red Poppy/White Feather (Section/Squad level WWII rules inspired by Crossfire) and last but not least
    Warhammer Panzer Battles (modifications to use Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 (3rd edition) rules for the Second World War) !!!

    Definitely a very good site !!!! And he his a plastic wargamer too (and plays Crossfire !!!).

  • At A Fistful of Games:
    Fistful of TOWs: 2000. Includes armor, infantry, artillery, 300+ vehicles. Turns average 15 minutes! Current version available free.
    Where Panzers Dare. WWII Rules. Playtest pack available free.

  • At David Manley's site:
    FireForce a set of modern skirmish rules . Intended for use primarily in 'Nam and for African conflicts from the 1960s onwards.
    Police Action rules for company and battalion level and riverine actions in Vietnam using 10mm figures.
    Napoleonic Fast Play - a sort of DBA meets Fire and Fury
    De Bellis Horibilis - DBA in the Great war and Russian Civil war
    Imperius Maximus - Neil Laird's 19th century colonial variant

  • At Fantastic Games & Hobbies:
    L’Ordre Mixte a Napoleonic supplement to 'Fire and Fury'.
    Firelock by Wes A. Rogers, a set of rules for recreating small-scale battles in the Horse and Musket period of European history (A.D. 1680-1815), using 25mm figures. Each figure represents 20 actual men, a gun model represents 2 actual guns, and 1" on the game table represents 10 paces.
    Lion of the North, tactical combat of the Thirty years war but can easily be expanded to cover other conflicts around the mid-17th century.

  • At Wargame Rules and Software:
    Sons of Liberty American Revolution Rules,
    Charge Pikes! English Civil War Miniatures Rules (zip file),
    Weight of Fire Seven Years' War Miniatures Rules,
    Wes and Rick's Garble 15mm Napoleonic Miniatures Rules (still under debate).

  • WAR TIMES JOURNAL, a beautiful site, with a lot of stuff :
    Republique, miniature wargaming rules are designed to recreate French Revolutionary and Napoleonic land battles on a grand tactical scale. This ruleset uses bases, not figures when counting a unit's strength, so I can play napoleonic battles without a big budget !
    1943, battalion level World War Two ruleset - an infantry base represents twenty men and has two figures mounted on it.


  • In the site of the Wargame Foundry there are three ruleset:
    The Big Battalions, a napoleonic set with 1:40/ 1:50 ratio (infantry battalion of four stands of 4 figures plus a skirmish company of two figures = 18 figures)
    Rebel Yell, American Civil war set with ratio 1:20 (infantry units 400 strong = 20 figures, 5 stands)
    Horse and Musket Skirmish Rules, rules that cover the period from about 1700 to the mid nineteenth century


  • In the site of Ed Allen :
    One if by land, american war of indipendence rules with a ratio of 1:20 and Rencounter, "a set of rules for ambuscades, skirmishes, rencounters, affrays and divers small actions"


  • A new site for the "Society Of Twentieth Century Wargaming" SOTCW:
    Men Of Frost, a quick and dirty set of WWII House Clearing Rules (for Arnhem style games)
    Maxim To Minimi, skirmish rules from 1900 to today (in case of dangerous Vietnam engagement)
    Skirmish '90 Modern Wargames Rules 1915-2005, rules aimed at platoon or company level with limited air and armour support


  • SKIRMISH! Rules Online , I do not remember the name.


  • In the beautiful site of mr Richard Denning:
    Green Jackets, Rules for Skirmish Action in the Peninsular War 1808-1814 and Principles of Napoleonic Wars, expansion of the commercial Principles of War.


  • Several rules can be found in the Wrexham & District Wargames Club ' s homepage:
    Back to Basics - A set of World War II and Korea rules for all scales.
    B to B: American Organisation - American organisation from WWII to Korea
    B to B: British Organisation - Britain from WWII to Korea
    B to B: German Organisation - German WWII
    Another Bug Hunt - Rules for refighting the Aliens (tm) film
    Bad Endings - A simple set of Medieval Skirmish rules
    Colonial Rules - A simple set of rules for the colonial period
    Go In and Sink - Modern Naval Rules
    Simple ACW Rules - Fed up of long winded ACW rules, then try these instead
    Steer for the Third Star on the Left - Science Fiction rules for spaceship battles
    Campaign Rules - For Steer for the Third Star on the Left
    Where's Charlie - Vietnam 20mm rules (From the SOTCW Vietnam War Study Group Home Page)

    An active club beyond doubt !!!!



    I like reading new rules, so if you know other ruleset on the net, please email me, thank you !


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Page created: 05/29/1997
Last update: 12/05/1999