The Miniature Wargaming Editor

Muskets and Marshals Napoleonic Rules

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Muskets and Marshals is a set of free wargmes rules for the Napoleonic era. The author writes:

Following the Battle of the Crossroads I have had a final tweak of my house rules Muskets & Marshals. I say ‘final’ tweak even though experience has shown me that there is actually no such thing because tinkering with rules is as much a symptom of my borderline OCD as the desire to keep re-basing my model soldiers is.

That said I am pretty happy with the rule set as they stand and I certainly had a lot of fun playing the game using them. The firing system involves throwing a lot of dice and I’ve found over the years that this always tends to make a wargame more fun than the slide rule/logarithm approach.

The rules are an amalgamation of various rule systems and ideas nicked or created over the last 40 odd years. The movement rates and ranges are straight out of the London Wargames Section Napoleonic Rules (1968). The melee system is spookily like the one from the board game Risk. Many of the other ideas were developed for a set of ACW rules my brother and myself knocked up in the 1980s. The emphasis is on fun and speed of play.

Agricola Express

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Agricola is one of the great “Euro” style board games of recent years, but like more than a few, it can be quite involved. Agricola Express takes the strategy and basics of that game and boils it down to a dice based game. Even better: it’s free and ownership of Agricola is not required.

The General Purpose Wargame

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David Medlock offers The General Purpose Wargame, a set of semi-skirmish level wargames rules for simulating battles from the Stone Age to the Victorian.

Dungeon Quest Variants From Fantasy Flight

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Fantasy Flight has posted some play variants for its Dungeon Quest reprint.

Modern Building Templates

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Dr. Merkury’s Lab offers some templates for making 28mm scale modern style buildings. Print them out, and then use them as guidelines to cut your walls from foam core.