High Noon: Plastic Men, Steel Resolve is intended to be a simple and straight forward ruleset for playing dexterity based wargames set in the Wild West. Combat and movement resolution is based on a dexterity "flick" or "flip" mechanic instead of a traditional dice or card mechanic. In addition, the game requires no templates, rulers or special materials to...
Hind & Seek is a ruleset all about asymmetrical warfare and is aimed at company to battalion sized games, in 6mm or 3mm scale. Larger scales can be used just as easily, from 10mm and 15mm, up to 1/72 scale. These rules are based on the real-life accounts of actual combatants, largely from the books The Bear Went over the Mountain and The Other Side of the...
Histories Of War is a series of historical wargames rules designed to allow players to recreate battles of the period using miniature soldiers or counters on a scenic battlefield. The system puts the player in the role of a general of large armies and the rules are designed to represent the action occurring simultaneously. Empire & Hordes pits the army of...
Welcome to the front! History Dad: The Second World War is a set of miniatures wargame rules for you: Whether you are an old hand or brand new to historical wargaming we have you covered with everything you could need to play out exciting battles in the greatest conflict of human history: A straight forward game system with minimal use of dice modifiers....
This 267-page history of the world's games is divided into nine chapters plus appendices. A two-page table near the end summarizes the distribution of games in countries across both history and the globe. Murray categorizes games according to their general goals: "Games of Alinement and Configuration;" "War-Games;" "Hunt-Games;" "Race-Games;" and "Mancala"...
H.J.R. Murray's classic work on the history of chess includes chess variants from around the world and throughout history. Originally published in 1913, it was recently reprinted and is now available again. Contains history, development and the rules of nearly every Chess variant prior to 1900. A Classic! Republished by Oxford University Press (available...
Two volume set covering virtually all that is now known of Tarot, Tarock, and Tarocchi games. The sole concern of these two volumes is the evolution of the Tarot card game rules with only a mention in passing of the occult uses of Tarot cards in the preface and very few illustrations of Tarot cards. Essentially, this is an update of Dummett's 1980 book...
HMG is a set of World War One wargame rules for use with any scale of figure (6mm, 15mm, 20mm, 28mm ...) with infantry companies of between 4 and 8 figures used and use a ‘I go - You go’ sequence of play. The pdf rules have a hyperlinked contents page to take you quickly to the page you need! Features - Army organisation. Infantry battalion organisation....
From the publisher: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug provides a wealth of supplemental rules, which recreate the thrilling events of the film on the tabletop with your collection of Citadel miniatures. This 64-page, full colour, softback expansion for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey includes: 8 brand new scenarios recreating the action-packed events...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game is the tabletop game for two or more players. This free PDF expansion is packed with supplemental rules which enable you to recreate the thrilling events of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies™ with your collection of Citadel miniatures. This expansion includes two exciting new scenarios that...
A companion to the main rules of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey™ Strategy Battle Game, focusing on the second and third instalments of The Hobbit: Motion Picture Trilogy, this is a gorgeously-realised, hardback, full-colour book featuring a plethora of new and revised profiles for use in your games of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey™ Strategy Battle...
Blunt the knives, bend the forks; Smash the bottles and burn the corks; Chip the glasses and crack the plates; That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates! An Unexpected Party is a fast, fun, action-based tabletop game for 2-4 players, set in the opening scenes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – when the thirteen Dwarves arrive unannounced at Bag End, much to...