Miniatures Rules

Starcrashers Board Game

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Starcrashers is a simple tabletop game of space exploration and combat. The author writes:

Star Crashers is a friendly game for 2-4 players, ages 8 and up. Each turn, players move their spacecraft around the table, exploring by flipping over Blip Counters that could be Space Pirates, Gravity Mines, Derelict Ships, and stranger things! When a player successfully deals with an encounter, they collect Credits as specified in the encounter. Once all the Blip Counters have been revealed and dealt with, the game is over- the player with the most credits wins. You can also try playing teams, pairing up with another player and combining your credits to see which team can earn the most!

War Galley

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War Galley is a set of free wargames rules for ancient naval warfare. It very cleverly uses matchboxes and matchsticks for play.

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Tom’s Ancient Warfare Rules

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Tom’s Ancient Warfare rules are a set of free wargames rules designed to be played with — of all things — Risk pieces. The author notes that the bases may need to be larger if you use historical miniatures.

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Aquazone Game of Deep Sea Exploration and Combat

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Aqua Zone is a set of free wargames rules for playing miniatures games that feature underwater combat with submarines, DSV’s and marine animals.

Faction Wars Science Fiction Skirmish

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Fire and Forget Games has released a downloadable PDF version of the rules for Faction Wars, the sci-fi skirmish game. The free 40-page PDF contains the basic rules of the game, sample squads for two factions, and a couple of scenarios to get you started.