If you are playing miniature wargames set in the Sudan, you’ve got to have a redoubt. Steve Winter has a very detailed explaination of how to build one.
The Miniature Wargaming Editor
Hex Command Ancients Rules
Imagine Image offers the freeHex Command Ancients Rules for miniatures wargames. The hex system is supposed to simplify things and speed play. You can play without a hex board if you want.
Generic Near Eastern “Bronze Age/Biblical” Figures
Mike Schubert of the Pretoria Wargames Club has an article on which Essex miniature wargaming figures to use to build armies of obscure near eastern bronze age armies, such as the Mitannians, Canaanites, Later Hebrews and Neo-Hittites.
Little Lambent Meteors
Jim Wallman’s Little Lambent Meteors is a set of free wargames rules for 18th Century riots, using 15mm figures.