Nick Salmon offers a set of free wargames rules for ancients warfare. The author writes:
These rules can be used from antiquity up until the late medieval period, they depart from the norm in that they have no rigid turn sequence. Instead players take turns to command their troops until a situation occurs which occupies the commander allowing the initiative to pass to the other player. Combat results are handled by progressively worse morale and no figures are removed from the table. As befitting my age the rules are a bewildering mixture of imperial and metric measurements. Any areas not covered should be resolved with common sense or a die roll.
Miniatures Rules
Port and Cigars Napoleonic Rules
Port and Cigars is a set of free wargames rules for the Napoleonic period. The authors write:
usable in all scales and all base sizes; by God I don’t care a Damn if you use cardboard chits.
They draw upon decades of research and literally hours of watching” Sharpe”.
With these rules you can follow Wolfe to Quebec , Wellesley to Assay. , Stand in line as your Prussians deliver their automated volleys or lead the charge of your Cuirassiers as they punch a hole in anything in their path.
Port & Cigars is playable in a hour. Time for glory on the tabletop and enough to repair down the tavern; (with a few bottles of wine,) to celebrate your victory.
It uses a single D6. No modern twenty sided or D percent here thank you! If the D6 has served us for a hundred years it shall serve a hundred more!
Here you can finally use all those armies you bought but are about to E-Bay because all other rules systems suck. Two plastic box sets and your army is ready. No quibbling over vague rules anymore as quibblers are flogged senseless the moment they start.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal Age of Sail Wargames Rules
Letters of Marque and Reprisal is a set of free wargames rules for replaying battles in the age of fighting sail. It’s meant for battles where each player would control one ship, rather than a squadron or fleet. It looks perfect for pirate battles.
Ancient Wargames Rules
Steve Burt offers a set of free wargames for Ancients Warfare.
Last Hussar’s World War II Rules
The Last Hussar blog has a set of free wargames rules for World War II. They’re a work in progress, so you’ll want to stop back by on a regular basis.