Month: January 2022

Civitates Bellantes Ancients Rules

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Civitates Bellantes is a set of free wargames rules for ancient warfare.

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Civitates Bellantes is an adaptation of the Comitatus mehcanisms to cover the entire era of ‘classical’ antiquity (500 BC-AD 200). These are still a work in progress and I am developing them together with Caoimhín Boru.

Although these rules are designed around the same principles as Comitatus, they also have unique features which capture the flavour of the period. Civitates is suitable for ‘epic’ classical battles using any figure scale or base sizes. A unique feature of the rules is the treatment of a full legion as a single unit with the ability to conduct line relief.

Bring Out The Old Guard Napoleonic Rules

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Bring Out The Old Guard and That Vertically Challenged Mediterranean Man is a set of free wargames rules for the Napoleonic period.

Battle Chain Fantasy Rules

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Battle Chain is a set of free wargames rules for fantasy battles. The rules are designed for 20mm – 28mm figures.

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Steel Inferno Armored Warfare Rules

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Steel Inferno is a set of free wargames rules for modern armored warfare. The authors also provides statistics for some of Games Workshop’s Epic scale Warhammer 40k rules.

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Take Your Games Online

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Take Your Games Online

The pandemic has shut down a lot of in person gaming, but fortunately places like Board Game Arena, Tabletopia, Table Top Simulator and online casino games at the PowerPlay website offer options. Gamers can also try browser based and app-based games.

One of the hottest free browser games these days is Wordle. This surprisingly engaging game asks players to guess a daily five letter word using process-of-elimination clues.

Board Game Arena offers a large selection of modern board games such as Pandemic, 7 Wonders, Viticulture, Parks and Fluxx. To play, you just log into the site with your browser. One of the nice things about Board Game Arena is that the rules are built into the system; the software will not allow you to make mistakes or illegal moves. Board Game Arena has both free and paid options. The free accounts offer a selection of the 419 games on the paid edition.

PowerPlay.Com offers table games such as poker, blackjack and roulette as well as online betting on all major sports. There also are live Vegas games such as Roulette, Casino Stud Poker, Casino Hold’em and James Bond’s favorite game, Baccarat. It’s all played with real money, though. On the other hand, you can win real money as well.

Tabletopia offers the chance to play more than 1,500 tabletop games in a virtual, physics driven environment. Unlike Board Game Arena, it does not have any rules enforcement. In many ways, Tabletopia is the closest to a live table game experience you can have in a virtual environment. Tabletopia works on Windows and Macs, and runs in most modern desktop web browsers. There are both paid and free versions of Tabletopia.

Table Top Simulator is another virtual table games sandbox. You must purchase the base software from Steam, but from there, gamers have access to more than three thousand “mods.” Mods are user-created games that can be played through the Table Top Simulator interface. Some of the mods are original games, but more are fan-created versions of real board and card games. This makes Table Top Simulator a bit controversial, since it allows people to play games without royalties being paid to the designers or publishers. It’s a bit of Wild West there and the quality of the games varies.